An NBC News analysis of final statements from prisoners on Texas’ death row shows that some convey a readiness to die. Others ...

Edward Busby Jr. was pronounced dead hours after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a stay over his disabilities claims.

Texas on Thursday executed a 53-year-old man for the 2004 murder of an elderly woman, marking the state's 600th execution of ...

The death row inmate has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his execution, pointing to a codefendant’s confession in the shooting death of two people.

Convicted serial rapist and murderer William Lewis Reece is back on Oklahoma soil, where he now awaits execution at the ...

Edward Busby's execution had been on hold for nearly a week but a decision by the Supreme Court on Thursday allowed it to move forward.

Busby, who was convicted in 2005 in the deadly robbery and kidnapping of 78-year-old Laura Crane, was executed by lethal ...

For years, county, state and federal courts have ruled that neither Broadnax’s transformation, nor his claims of an unfair ...

A North Texas man who claimed he wasn’t the shooter in a fatal robbery that killed two people nearly 18 years ago and who ...

First Florida executed James Hitchcock for the 1976 murder of his brother's 13-year-old stepdaughter. Then Texas executed James Broadnax for a 2008 double murder.