Ohio passed a law in 2021 that exempted people with serious mental illnesses from being executed. Nine people have been removed from death row, with 25 cases still pending. Some death row inmates have sought to drop their mental-illness appeals, raising ...

AUSTIN, Texas - The Texas Supreme Court has issued an opinion connected to the case of death row inmate Robert Roberson. Roberson was sentenced to death in 2003 for the killing of his 2-year-old daughter. His original execution date was delayed last month ...

At age 17, Anzel Keon Jones, a high school sophomore, played football, ran track, partied on weekends -- and murdered a woman and sexually assaulted her mother. Jones doesn't deny his actions. "I did it," he says. Now, nine years later, Jones and his ...