Mikal Mahdi, who killed a South Carolina police officer during a multi-state crime spree, has chosen to die by firing squad.

Wood has been on Texas Death Row for nearly four decades even though no DNA evidence linked him to the murders of six women and girls in El Paso in 1987. “I’m accused of killing six people ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned the injunction that blocked the execution of death row inmate, Jessie Hoffman. Hoffman was sentenced to death after ...

But it was a trip to a death row facility in the US that has left a lasting impression on the former screw. Ms South visited the Allan B. Polunsky Unit in Texas, where she inspected the death row ...

The men are housed in the Polunsky Unit in Livingston in single cells with a window ... As of Feb. 6, 2025, there were 174 people on death row in Texas, seven of whom are women, including Melissa ...

(Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' brief order on Tuesday recognized the claims in death row inmate David Leonard Woods appeal and granted an indefinite stay ...

Federal Appeals Court Reverses Texas Death Row Inmate’s Conviction A federal ... Kirkpatrick, who was placed in the same cell as Holberg, produced a statement detailing an alleged admission ...

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But it’s not just the defense filing motions – prosecutors have demanded that the defense stop referencing the state’s intent to apply the death penalty to a conviction as “an attempt to ...

Holberg has been on death row for 27 years. In securing her conviction ... Kirkpatrick, who was placed in the same cell as Holberg, produced a statement detailing an alleged admission from Holberg.

FROM A JUDGE ON WHETHER THE USE OF GAS TO EXECUTE A DEATH ROW INMATE IS CONSTITUTIONAL. JESSE HOFFMAN IS ACCUSED OF RAPING AND KILLING A WOMAN NEARLY 30 YEARS AGO IN SAINT TAMMANY. AND THE CASE ...