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

The second autopsy results in the Dau Mabil case were released Tuesday evening by the family of Karissa Bowley, Mabil's wife, to the Clarion Ledger. According to the provided pathologist's report, Dr.

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; ...

Following Mississippi Today's investigation into a hazy legal theory used to imprison women who used drugs during their ...

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 Sherwood Brown to get his release from custody.

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 ...

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 ...

it’s the fifth to make them available as a backup option – along with Mississippi, Oklahoma, Utah and South Carolina. Idaho’s death row currently consists of eight men and one woman.

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - On Tuesday, January 21, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a certiorari review for Timothy Robert Ronk, meaning the high court will not hear his death row appeal. Ronk was ...