Oklahoma has ranked fifth among states in the number of incidents of children being paddled at school, according to a study ...

Death row inmate Robert Roberson didn't appear before Texas state lawmakers after his execution was halted last week.

The move came after the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals had declined multiple times to stop Roberson’s execution. Evidence ...

Texas lawmakers are expected to hear testimony at the state Capitol on Monday from Robert Roberson, a death row inmate whose ...

Roberson was subpoenaed by a state House committee in a last-ditch effort to delay his death. The hearing featuring his ...

Anti-death penalty advocates, including state abolitionists, former death row inmates and allies, held a rally in Texas ...

In a state where the death penalty is as ingrained as cowboy boots and conservative politics, news of Robert Roberson’s death ...

A pressing national debate has been sparked by the stories of inmates on death row. On Saturday, former death row inmates ...

A frantic and unprecedented rush by Texas lawmakers to successfully block the controversial execution of death row inmate ...

While the execution of a Texas man was temporarily put on hold this week, more than 2,000 people remain on death row across ...

A Texas judge has blocked the execution of the first man to be put on death row in the US for murder charges related to ...