Facing execution next is confessed killer Wendell Grissom. He and Shepard were cellmates. Grissom, 56, is set to be executed on March 20 at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Death row inmate Byron James Shepard died Tuesday, almost eight years after he fatally shot a Tecumseh police officer during a traffic stop. The number of inmates under a death ...

Forty-five years after a jury convicted Dr. Sam Sheppard of bludgeoning his wife to death in his home, the Ohio courts will once again hear testimony in a Sheppard trial. In January 2000 ...

Death row inmate Byron James Shepard died Tuesday, almost eight years after he fatally shot a Tecumseh police officer during a traffic stop. Shepard, 43, was at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in ...

Death row inmate Byron James Shepard died Tuesday, almost eight years after he fatally shot a Tecumseh police officer during a traffic stop. Shepard, 43, was at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in ...