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

This year's nominees examine the aftermaths of gun violence and two female musicians — one a trailblazer and the other just ...

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

As James Dennis Ford is set to be executed in Florida, we take a look at the lives of his victims, Kimberly and Gregory ...

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 ...

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

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

OKLAHOMA CITY — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in favor of convicted murderer Brenda Andrew, the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row, ordering a lower court to review whether she got a ...

(Oklahoma Department of Corrections via AP) (Uncredited, Oklahoma Department of Corrections) OKLAHOMA CITY – An Oklahoma board rejected clemency on Wednesday for a man sentenced to die for fatally ...

Andrew, the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row, has appealed her conviction for years, claiming the evidence presented against her violated her due process rights. The U.S. Court of Appeals for ...

When she began writing letters to a man on Texas’ death row, Noa Dubois had no intention ... "I owe Steven the woman I am today, and there is no day that I'm going to wake up and not feel ...