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 ...

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

Governor Landry emphasized that this method will ensure Louisiana’s ability to carry out death sentences in a timely and effective manner.

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