Forty-three years after Randy White's wife was murdered just minutes after he kissed her goodbye for the last time, he has witnessed the execution of her killer. Kayle Barrington Bates, 67, was ...

The State Newspaper reporter Ted Clifford was a media witness to the execution by firing squad of Stephen Bryant. Bryant pleaded guilty to the murder of Willard Tietjen, Cliff Gainey, and Christopher ...

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 ...

David Pittman, convicted of a brutal 1990 triple homicide, is set to be executed by lethal injection at 6 p.m. this evening, concluding a legal battle that has spanned over three decades. The 35-year ...

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 ...

Today, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a federal lawsuit along with The Guardian and The Oklahoma Observer against Oklahoma prison officials. The lawsuit seeks to take the literal ...

While officials with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice are blaming miscommunication for preventing reporters from witnessing the state’s first execution in nearly a year, legal and death ...

A witness to the shooting in downtown Dallas, Texas, that killed five police officers and injured seven more officers and two civilians told CNN that the attack “looked like an execution, honestly.” ...