Texas has executed James Broadnax for the 2008 slayings of two men at a Garland recording studio, despite a recent claim from ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- Stacey Stites was weeks away from marrying her fiancé when she went missing. Just 19 years old at the time, Stites didn't show up for work one morning in 1996, and was found dead ...

A Lake County judge on Wednesday turned down a request by death row inmate James Duckett to order a further analysis of DNA test results in the case of an 11-year-old girl who was brutally murdered ...

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board has decided to not grant clemency to a death row inmate. Raymond Johnson was sentenced to death for the 2007 murders of Brooke Whitaker and her seven-month-old ...

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