The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a Texas man on death row can bring a federal civil rights claim to challenge the ...

For nearly 15 years, a man on death row in Texas has sought DNA testing to try and prove he did not kill an 85-year-old woman ...

The U.S. Supreme Court sided with a Texas death row inmate in a challenge over whether he had standing to sue a district ...

A death row inmate’s attorneys are asking the court to reverse a lower court’s decision that declined to decide eligibility ...

Ruben Gutierrez's lawyers say new evidence tests would help prove he was not responsible for the fatal stabbing of an 85-year ...

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the legal right to sue over the state’s laws governing DNA ...

Ruben Gutierrez is challenging the constitutionality of a state law that restricts death row inmates from seeking tests that ...

The US Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the right to sue over the state's ...

A Houston-area man convicted of killing his wife died this week after more than three decades on death row, marking the ...

Justice Thomas has said the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Due Process clause created a "tool for obstruction." ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 ...

Mississippi has executed the longest-serving man on its death row nearly 50 years after he was convicted of murder.