Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

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Those housed in the O'Daniel Unit in Gatesville, including such names as Melissa Lucio, have had their lives touched by a ...

Oklahoma's only female death row inmate, Brenda Andrew, 61, could get another chance in court due to "sex-shaming" during her trial, per a Tuesday Supreme Court ruling.

When Brenda Andrew was on trial for murder in 2004 in Oklahoma, a prosecutor named Fern Smith turned to the jury and held up ...

Alabama executed Demetrius Frazier for the 1991 murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown two days before Thanksgiving.

The state executed Bowman for the 2001 murder of 21-year-old Kandee Martin, a young mother who was killed five days before ...

Death Row inmates are given one final request before they die. The Mirror takes a look at the strangest and bizarre prison ...

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

This is not in any way lessening due process for those who are convicted and are facing the death penalty,” said Rep. Bruce ...