Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tommy Lee Walker was declared "innocent" by a Dallas court on Wednesday, 70 years after he was executed for the rape and murder of ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WDEF)- Thursday morning, Harold Wayne Nichols death was carried out by lethal injection, for the rape and murder of Karen Pulley, who was a 20 year old Chattanooga State student in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prosecutors cited false evidence, a coerced confession, and racial bias in overturning Tommy Lee Walker’s conviction. The ...

HOUSTON (AP) — Nearly 70 years after a Texas Black man was executed in a case that prosecutors now say was based on false evidence and was riddled with racial bias, officials have declared that he was ...

Crystal Allison, Glen Palmer’s sister, gives a statement and answers questions after the execution of her brother’s killer Kendrick Simpson. MCALESTER, Okla. - After Kendrick Simpson was executed by ...