A Tennessee death row prisoner has declared a hunger strike, saying he is protesting issues with medical care, the quality of ...

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

A memo from Pam Bondi asked prosecutors to pursue the death penalty for groups including immigrants illegally residing in the ...

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

Gov. Jeff Landry announced Monday that the state had developed a protocol for executing people with nitrogen gas, allowing it ...

Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday advanced legislation that would allow child rapists to be sentenced to death as some Republicans ...

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry said crime victims and their families have waited too long for justice in the form of death ...

Ford was convicted of murdering Kimberly and Gregory Malnory, whose toddler daughter was found covered in her mother's blood ...

I am grateful to Connecticut for banning the death penalty, but it is deeply troubling to me that Connecticut companies are ...

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 ...

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