Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...

During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...

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

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

Demetrius Frazier became the fourth inmate in the US to be put to death by the method as he served his sentence for the 1991 ...

Every week, behind a half dozen security doors that lead to Unit 2—Tennessee’s death row—Kevin Burns holds a worship service. He leads Communion, prayer, liturgy, and a sermon with men who share his ...

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi is seeking to reverse the last-hour commutations for death row murderers last month ... calling it an "important step" in building trust and achieving accountability.

One of Miami’s most notorious gang leaders, who for more than two decades sat on Death Row after four murder convictions, not ...

A Death Row killer who brutally murdered a pastor with a plastic bag in his church uttered three chilling final words to the warden as he was executed. Steven Lawayne Nelson, a Texas death row ...

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

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. A death row killer who shot his friend before her bullet-ridden body was found in a scorched car is set to be executed on Friday. In May 2002 ...