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 ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (KALB) - Rapides Parish District Attorney Phillip Terrell has obtained a death warrant for death row inmate Larry Roy. Governor Jeff Landry announced on Monday the Department of Public ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...