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

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 ...

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

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 ...

A Death Row sicko who was convicted of raping and murdering a woman in her home has become the fourth person to be executed using the contentious nitrogen gas method. Despite pleas from his mother ...

A sick Death Row killer who raped and murdered a woman in her home has become just the fourth to be executed using the controversial nitrogen gas method tonight. Despite his mother's pleas ...

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board rejected clemency for a death row inmate scheduled to die in March. Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond's office advocated against clemency for Wendell ...

A Texas man convicted of murdering a pastor was put to death on Wednesday — and uttered chilling last words prior to being executed. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing ...

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

A man convicted of raping and murdering an Alabama woman seemed to criticize Michigan ... two states agreed to move him to Alabama’s death row. "If you cannot stand up for the constitution ...

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