Howard Willis was sentenced to death in 2010 for the murders eight years earlier of newlyweds Adam Chrismer, 17, and Samantha ...

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...

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

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

From the daily newsletter: an editor’s note from Daniel Zalewski. Plus: Jia Tolentino on Joan Didion on Martha Stewart; ...

A grisly case that took over national news years ago, involving a hitman hired to kill a Black Atlanta woman, now has a new development. The convicted killer is no longer sentenced to be executed.

Texas's first female condemned killer received special permission to leave jail and be baptized at New Light Baptist Church ...

Nearly four decades ago, public outrage over the execution of Jerome Bowden, a man with an IQ of 65, spurred Georgia ...

Some version of the legislation is likely to pass the Georgia General Assembly this year. House Speaker Jon Burns has also listed regulating transgender girls’ and women’s access to female ...

A Death Row sicko who was convicted of raping and murdering a woman in her home has become the fourth person to be executed using the contentious nitrogen gas method. Despite pleas from his mother ...

A sick Death Row killer who raped and murdered a woman in her home has become just the fourth to be executed using the controversial nitrogen gas method tonight. Despite his mother's pleas ...

Today, 51 women are on death row, compared with more than 2,000 men. But for those women who do face capital sentencing, a particular kind of disadvantage based on their sex can arise: Although ...