A small group gathered outside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in Thursday, June 12, during the execution of George John Hanson, 61. The group offered up prayers and support for Hanson, his family and ...

Plays on American Lives Theatre's new season explore the "practice babies" used to teach home ec and the little-known Marine who saved a president.

STARING into the eyes of a serial killer is not for the faint-hearted – but for one lawyer that was his daily reality. Christopher Quarles, 71, defended 48 people on Death Row – includi… ...

A group opposing the death penalty has removed from its Web site's home page a link to material soliciting pen pals for Ricky Javon Gray and other Virginia death-row inmates. Virginians for ...

Dan Walker admitted one moment from his face-to-face with a Death Row killer left him spooked – and it concerned Strictly Come Dancing. Dan journeyed to Texas for his Channel 5 investigation ...

Chief Justice Monica M. Márquez spoke publicly on Sunday about her longtime friendship with an Alabama man formerly on death row, which began during her time as a law school intern and ended with his ...

“That began our pen pal connection,” recalled Taylor. Like Gissendaner, she said, Sigmon, who became an “informal chaplain” to other prison inmates, tried to become a different person.

Mitchell has spent many of his 27 years on death row writing. In addition to writing to officials asking for access to education, he finds solace through pen pals. That’s how he met his wife ...

He thanked everyone, but specifically shouted out all of his friends, pen pals and all the people in his corner inside and outside, even on Death Row, who "accepted me for the man I became during ...

A death row inmate who had spent more than 30 years on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola has died of an illness. Christopher Sepulvado, 81, was the DeSoto Parish man ...

We also hear what those closest to Rebekah think about her unusual hobby. My Death Row Pen Pal is a three-part series, with additional special bonus material via BBC Sounds.