While the man who killed Doug Battle got a life sentence, one of his accomplices is about to be executed even though he ...

As a Brownsville child killer’s death date has been set for November, Cameron County District Attorney Luis Saenz confirmed with ValleyCentral that he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The State Newspaper reporter Ted Clifford was a media witness to the execution by firing squad of Stephen Bryant. Bryant pleaded ...

Nashville — Thirty-three years after he raped and killed a little Knoxville girl, Billy Ray Irick took his last, loud breaths in Tennessee’s execution chamber. And I watched. As a WBIR journalist, I ...

One of the media witnesses to Friday night’s execution, the first ever in the state to use a firing squad, provided his eyewitness account.

This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about how the system works here and how it is waiting for execution on Texas' death row. HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A ...

One hundred fifty journalists entered a California lottery in 1992, not forcash, but for front-row seats to the state's first execution since 1976. Eighteen won, but the thrill of victory was more ...