Two states are set to see pauses on executions end as Arizona, Louisiana and South Carolina gave execution dates to three men ...

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...

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

Explore the inspiring true story behind 'Just Mercy,' where attorney Bryan Stevenson battles for the truth and justice for ...

Death row inmates in North Carolina may be resentenced after a judge ruled last week that Hasson Bacote's capital trial was ...

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 ...

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

Even after DNA testing showed he wasn’t the suspect who killed the three women in the Boyd family, it still took years for ...

The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s ...

A pair of athletic shoes — among the most popular brands in the country — kick-started an investigation that would lead to ...

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