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 ...

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

Alabama has carried out the nation’s fourth nitrogen gas execution, putting a man to death for the killing of a woman who was raped and shot during an apartment break-in.

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

Alabama death row inmate Demetrius Frazier became the first person executed while in the custody of the state of Michigan Thursday night.

Demetrius Frazier, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m. CST at a south Alabama prison for his murder conviction in the 1991 rape and killing of 41-year-old Pauline Brown. It was the first execution in ...

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 ...

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