Baptist deacon Samuel Lee Smithers was executed on Tuesday evening for the brutal murder of two sex workers back in 1996 ...

A bipartisan group of Texas state lawmakers visited death row inmate Robert Roberson days before his scheduled execution. We ...

CM Himanta Sarma and Assam Cong chief Gaurav Gogoi accuse each other of “close ties” with event management director Shyamkanu ...

Robert Roberson hopes he will again avoid becoming the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome.

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. — Indiana will put to death a man who was convicted in the 2001 rape and murder of a teenage girl, the state’s third execution since resuming capital punishment last year.

As Texas prepares to put Roberson to death on Oct. 16, his lawyers suggest in a filing that an episode of a "Dateline" ...

Chilling police interview audio from the woman who is set to be the first to be executed in the US for 200 years has resurfaced.

NBC News’ Lester Holt is dropping a new Dateline podcast on Monday, taking a look at the high-profile death row case of ...