A woman on death row in Texas is having her name cleared after a judge recommended her conviction be overturned due to new evidence suggesting her daughter's death was accidental. Mum-of-14 ...

British sisters, ages 77 and 80, write to those on death row across the U.S. “For a lot of them, we're the only people that ...

Public attention to the death penalty often focuses on the method of execution and questions about innocence and guilt. But the use of capital punishment has waned in the United States since the ...

Lucio's execution was delayed in 2022 amid calls to review her case. Melissa Lucio, the death row inmate who was convicted of capital murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, is speaking ...

Over the span of a few days in September 2021, police and prosecutors allege, Thornburg killed three people — a man and two women — by slitting their throats or strangling them inside his room ...

Courtesy Innocence Project A Texas judge said that a mother who has been on death row since 2008 over the death of her toddler is "actually innocent," with a decision on her release now in the ...

A Texas death row inmate was deemed “actually innocent” by a judge who recommended her capital murder conviction be overturned as new evidence affirmed her daughter died from an accidental fall.