State prosecutors withheld evidence favorable to Brittany Marlow Holberg during her 1998 murder trial that resulted in her being sentenced to death, a federal appellate court panel ruled Friday.

A federal judge has issued an order stopping the execution of Louisiana death row inmate Jessie Hoffman, which was scheduled to take place on March 18. Attorney General Liz Murril says the state will immediately appeal.

After the woman spent 27 years on death row for killing an 80-year-old man, the court found that prosecutors failed to reveal their primary trial witness was a paid informant.

A federal appeals court has reversed an Amarillo woman’s death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to reveal that their primary trial witness was a paid informant.

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals blocked the execution of convicted El Paso 'Desert Killer' David Leonard Wood, court records show.