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

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

As James Dennis Ford is set to be executed in Florida, we take a look at the lives of his victims, Kimberly and Gregory ...

When Brenda Andrew was on trial for murder in 2004 in Oklahoma, a prosecutor named Fern Smith turned to the jury and held up ...

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

A grisly case that took over national news years ago, involving a hitman hired to kill a Black Atlanta woman, now has a new development. The convicted killer is no longer sentenced to be executed.

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

Demetrius Terrence Frazier has been executed using controversial nitrogen gas tonight for the rape and murder of Pauline ...

Demetrius Terrence Frazier, 52, was executed using controversial nitrogen gas in the early hours of Friday morning - his ...

The Centre for Justice Mercy and Reconciliation (CJMR), a grassroots non-governmental organisation with focus on the inmates ...