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; ...

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 ...

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

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

An Alabama death row inmate who raped and murdered a woman in 1991 was executed this week using nitrogen gas, making him the ...

A Death Row sicko who was convicted of raping and murdering a woman in her home has become ... This execution marks the first carried out by the state this year and the third across the US.

Two men in Texas are sentenced to death for murdering their children — for one of them, it is already too late. For the other ...

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

An man convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment as she slept was put to death Thursday evening in ...

I love everyone on Death Row. Let’s go ... Michigan became the first state in the US to outlaw the death penalty in 1847. Frazier confessed to murder after he was arrested in his home ...