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

Death row inmates in North Carolina may be resentenced after a judge ruled last week that Hasson Bacote's capital trial was ...

Every week, behind a half dozen security doors that lead to Unit 2—Tennessee’s death row—Kevin Burns holds a worship service. He leads Communion, prayer, liturgy, and a sermon with men who share his ...

Demetrius Frazier became the fourth inmate in the US to be put to death by the method as he served his sentence for the 1991 ...

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

Former U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 people on federal death row to life imprisonment. A ...

Demetrius Frazier apologized to the loved ones of one of the women he murdered and uttered two final words before he was ...

Attorneys for convicted murderer James Ford have filed legal briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court in a last-ditch effort to ...

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.

This is not in any way lessening due process for those who are convicted and are facing the death penalty,” said Rep. Bruce ...

Questions fly as correctional centre dismisses allegationUntil a ministerial panel set up by the Minister of Interior Hon. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, recently, to carry out a "comprehensive investigation ...

In a 120-page order, Superior Court Judge Wayland Sermons also ruled that race was “a significant factor” in other death ...