North Carolina death row inmates may be eligible for resentencing if it is determined that a Black defendant's 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 ...

Demetrius Terrence Frazier's final meal was a popular takeaway choice, after spending three decades in prison.

A North Carolina judge has ruled that racial bias tainted jury selection and sentencing in the trial of a Black inmate who was sentenced to death in 2009.

But for Cooper’s action, 2024 would have been the first year since 2016 in which no state granted clemency to any inmate on death row. In place after place, clemency boards and governors turned ...

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 ...

Oklahoma's only female death row inmate, whose attorneys argue was "sex-shamed" during her husband's murder trial, may have another day in court after a Tuesday Supreme Court ruling. Brenda Andrew ...

When she began writing letters to a man on Texas’ death row, Noa Dubois had no intention of finding a husband. Instead, the now-29-year-old was searching for someone who would understand her ...