The New York Times’ Adam Liptak described her role this way in 2019: “Justice Sonia Sotomayor … maintains a sort of vigil in ...

Texas was scheduled to hold a hearing today to determine whether Andre Thomas is competent to be executed. But that hearing had to be called off, because the expert retained by the state to examine ...

A Texas man was put to death Wednesday evening for fatally stabbing his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son in 2013, apologizing profusely to her older son who survived with multiple stab wounds and ...

Chadwick Willacy is scheduled to be executed on April 21 for the 1990 murder of his neighbor, Marlys Sather. Willacy was convicted of bludgeoning, strangling, and setting Sather on fire after she ...

Alabama is set to execute an inmate this week who wasn't even in the building when the murder he was convicted of took place. Charles Lee “Sonny” Burton, 75, is set to be executed by a controversial ...

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man was executed Tuesday evening for killing a young mother who frantically called 911 from her attacker's cellphone while tied up in his car. Michael Lee King, 54, was ...

Texas has executed a death row inmate who fatally stabbed his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son in a fit of rage before he turned the knife on her 12-year-old son, who miraculously survived the attack ...

The governor of Alabama has granted clemency to a man on death row for three decades, a rare move that spares the accomplice in a 1991 murder from execution on Thursday. Gov. Kay Ivey, in announcing ...

After President Trump urged states to recommit themselves to capital punishment, Florida started to put prisoners to death at rates not seen in the state’s modern history. By Adam Liptak Adam Liptak ...