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

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 ...

Two men in Texas are sentenced to death for murdering their children — for one of them, it is already too late. For the other ...

Today, 51 women are on death row, compared with more than 2,000 men. But for those women who do face capital sentencing, a particular kind of disadvantage based on their sex can arise: Although ...