Had the execution gone forward, Burton would have faced a harsher punishment than the man who killed the victim during a ...

Cedric Ricks, 51, is set to be executed on Wednesday for the 2013 capital murders of his ex-girlfriend, Roxann Sanchez, and her 8-year-old son, Anthony Figueroa.

Cedric Allen Ricks, a Texas death row inmate convicted of killing his common-law wife and two children, is set to be executed today.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of a 75-year-old man who was set to be executed this week even though he was not in the building when the victim was killed during a 1991 robbery ...