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 ...

Uriah Ureck, 18, and his girlfriend Tara King, 17, have been charged with capital murder in the death of Tammy King, 61. The ...

A 17-year-old and her 18-year-old boyfriend were arrested in Texas on Sunday after a grandmother was found dead.

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

A judge dismissed Tarrant County and six other defendants from a civil suit over the death of an inmate at the Tarrant County ...

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

Texas executes Steven Nelson, convicted for a pastor's 2011 murder, amidst debates on capital punishment ethics.

The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s efforts to bolster the federal death penalty and to encourage the 27 states ...