South Carolina executed Richard Moore on Friday for the 1999 shooting death of a convenience store clerk. Moore, 59, was executed by lethal injection and pronounced dead at 6:24 p.m. ET after ...

Alabama executed Derrick Dearman on Thursday, eight years after he massacred five family members of his girlfriend with an ax and a gun in the middle of the night. Dearman, 36, was convicted of ...

Despite significant doubts surrounding Robert Roberson's culpability in the 2002 death of his 2-year-old daughter, the 57-year-old is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection Thursday evening.

Robert Roberson, the condemned man whose execution was halted late Thursday because of an unprecedented legal gambit by Texas lawmakers, is expected to appear in person Monday at a legislative ...

Robert Roberson had been set to be executed on Thursday night for the death of his 2-year-old child. But after a bipartisan intervention by Texas lawmakers, the Supreme Court issued a stay.

WASHINGTON, United States — A Black man convicted by an all-white jury and sentenced to death for a killing he claims was in self-defense is to be executed in the US state of South Carolina on ...

HOUSTON — The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles on Wednesday denied a request for clemency for Robert Roberson, who could be the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction tied ...

House members were successful in halting the execution of Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson III. The Supreme Court of Texas granted a stay late Thursday night. The Supreme Court of Texas has ...

If the execution proceeds, he will be the first person in the United States to face capital punishment for a murder conviction linked to the controversial shaken baby syndrome diagnosis.