The Texas House has set a date to hear testimony from Robert Roberson, convicted of murdering his daughter based on a questionable diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome. By J. David Goodman The case of ...

Texas lawmakers exceeded their power when they intervened last month to stop the execution of Robert Roberson by summoning him to testify, the court found. By J. David Goodman Reporting from Houston ...

A death chamber in Columbia, S.C., includes an electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair. (South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP) South Carolina death row inmate Mikal Mahdi has chosen ...

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Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method in modern history: lethal injection. It's a unique situation globally. While many nations are ...

The overhaul of South Carolina’s death chamber was completed three years ago. Now, a team of sharpshooters is practicing its aim for what is poised to be the first firing squad execution in the ...

An Indiana man convicted in the fatal shooting of a police officer in 2000 was executed Tuesday by lethal injection in the state’s second execution in 15 years. Benjamin Ritchie, 45, had been on ...