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 ...

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 ...

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

A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his own church is facing execution on Wednesday ...

Texas is set to execute Steven Nelson by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 2011 murder of beloved pastor Clint Dobson, ...

Jones was 40 at the time of the alleged murder, and White was 81-years-old at the time of her death, police confirmed. "Our detectives work tirelessly to bring closure to families of homicide ...

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 ...

Mikhel is among the 37 inmates on federal death row whose death sentences Biden commuted ... but he has not filed a petition seeking to block it. Mikhel's petition, filed in the U.S. District ...

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 ...