The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear an appeal by a Texas man who faces the death penalty for his role in the murder of an elderly mobile home park owner and is seeking DNA testing of evidence from the crime scene.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case of a Texas man on death row who has long argued that DNA testing would help prove he didn't kill an 85-year-old woman during a home robbery decades ago.

Texas elections law says state prison inmates who are appealing their convictions are eligible to register. Many lawyers and voting rights advocates were unaware of the rule.

One of Oklahoma’s most infamous death row inmates could have his fate decided at the highest court in the nation. Next week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case of Richard Glossip. Glossip, who has narrowly avoided execution multiple times,

Richard Moore, who killed a Spartanburg store clerk while committing a robbery, is next in line for a state execution.

The Mississippi attorney general requesting an execution date for the state's longest-serving death row inmate. Richard Gerald Jordan is 78.

Ruben Gutierrez was sentenced to death for the 1998 Brownsville murder of an elderly woman. His execution was stayed in July.