The state has never used that method to execute a prisoner. The last time an inmate was killed by a firing squad was in 2010 ...

Death row inmate Robert Roberson has filed a new appeal with the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state's highest ...

Robert Roberson, a Texas death row inmate, has filed a new appeal. Roberson, who has autism spectrum disorder, claims ...

Elections have consequences, so the slogan goes. One of those consequences was on full display Feb. 5, in the minutes after ...

The move could affect plans to execute two prisoners in March. "This case has always been about Louisiana’s execution ...

Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next month by a firing squad. He would be the first U.S. inmate ...

Arizona has 112 death row inmates. Firing squad as a means of execution has been in the headlines more and more. On Friday, a ...

Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson has filed an appeal for a new trial. Roberson was convicted of murdering his ...

The only woman on Louisiana Death Row, Antionette Frank, could receive execution date after 30 years of incarceration. Read ...

The new appeal includes a statement from ten independent pathologists that says the 2002 autopsy is "deeply flawed and ...

From the daily newsletter: an editor’s note from Daniel Zalewski. Plus: Jia Tolentino on Joan Didion on Martha Stewart; ...