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

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.

The Colorado Springs mother, Kimberlee Singler, accused of killing two of her kids will be brought back to the United States ...

Demetrius Terrence Frazier's final meal was a popular takeaway choice, after spending three decades in prison.

While many of her contemporaries are playing canasta, she’s releasing her 25th book. There’s no mystery ... to pick up the pieces after the sudden death of her husband. A new memoir by the ...