Carl Wayne Buntion had a horrifically cruel life. His father ruined his childhood, beating his mother and his siblings. Once, his father purposefully shot Carl in the leg and forced him to walk home ...

Early voting in the Texas primaries gets underway in less than a month. The three leading Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate met at a debate over the weekend to make the case that they are the best ...

Eighteen men were executed in the United States in 2022, the fewest since 1991 with the exception of the pandemic years 2020 and 2021. The Death Penalty Information Center’s (DPIC) year-end report ...

Texas is less willing to pursue capital punishment than it once was, but the result is that some are now killed or marked for death for crimes years or decades in the past who would likely not receive ...

Death penalties in Texas were near record low levels, with juries sentencing fewer people to death and lower execution dates set this year, according to a recent report titled, "Texas Death Penalty ...

HOUSTON – He was a convicted cop killer who became the oldest person ever executed in Texas. Carl Wayne Buntion ended up on death row for murdering Houston police officer James Irby in 1990. But his ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A Texas death row inmate whose case clarified the role of spiritual advisers in death chambers nationwide is set to be ...

Update August 17, 2022 7:15pm: After rejecting his most recent appeals, the state executed Kosoul Chanthakoummane on schedule. According to the Texas Tribune’s Jolie McCullough, in his final moments ...

On April 21, 2022, three weeks after his 78 th birthday, Carl Buntion was executed in Huntsville, Texas. Pleas by his lawyers and anti-death penalty organizations to grant Buntion clemency because of ...

While a win for religious liberty, the Ramirez ruling will take a traumatic toll on an already burdened profession. On April 21, 2022, the state of Texas executed 78-year-old Carl Buntion, who shot ...

Michael Zoosman is the Chaplain, Cantor and Founder of “L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty. Shalom Aleichem Tennesseeans: We, the members of L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty, are an ...

A Missouri man who killed a couple during a robbery at their rural home more than a quarter of a century ago was put to death Tuesday, becoming just the fifth person executed in the United States this ...