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

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board on Wednesday voted 4-1 to deny clemency to a death row inmate who said last month he is ...

An Oklahoma board has rejected clemency for a man sentenced to die for fatally shooting a woman during a 2005 home-invasion ...

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 ...

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

Demetrius Terrence Frazier, 52, was executed using controversial nitrogen gas in the early hours of Friday morning - his ...

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

An Alabama death row inmate who raped and murdered a woman in 1991 was executed this week using nitrogen gas, making him the ...

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

Demetrius Terrence Frazier has been executed using controversial nitrogen gas tonight for the rape and murder of Pauline ...

Alabama executed Demetrius Frazier for the 1991 murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown two days before Thanksgiving.