Texas is scheduled to execute a man convicted of killing two men as part of a 2004 dispute with his boss at a strip club, and ...

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

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

From the daily newsletter: an editor’s note from Daniel Zalewski. Plus: Jia Tolentino on Joan Didion on Martha Stewart; ...

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

I Am Ready, Warden,” nominated for an Oscar, follows John Henry Ramirez in the days before he was executed in Texas for murder. It also spotlights the sons of both Ramirez and his victim.

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

The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s efforts to bolster the federal death penalty and to encourage the 27 states ...

Demetrius Terrence Frazier broke into the window of Brown's apartment on Nov. 27, 1991, before demanding money and raping her at gunpoint.

A death row inmate tried to say one final word before being executed, after beating and suffocating a pastor to death in ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson was condemned for the 2011 killing of the Rev. Clint Dobson at a Baptist church in Arlington. Dobson’s ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, died by lethal injection yesterday (February 5) at the state penitentiary in Huntsville ...