"In sum, the district court didn’t just get the legal analysis wrong — it turned the Constitution on its head, by relying on an indisputably more painful method of execution as its proposed alternative,

A federal appeals court has tossed 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.

The nitrogen gas asphyxiation execution of Jessie Hoffman Jr. is back on for next week after a ruling Friday from the U.S. Fifth Court of Appeals.