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 ...

Governor Landry announced that the La. Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections has finalized and implemented an updated ...

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

"The last thing he said before passing was, 'I should have finished the job of drowning her and burning down the house.'" ...

Daniel Stroud, now 25, who stabbed 16-year-old Bailey Gwynne through the heart in a corridor at Cults Academy in Aberdeen in ...

Susan Wanjiku has been trapped in a nightmare she can't escape.Sleep refuses to come, stolen by the horror of how she lost her husband, Gilbert Kinyua—the man she shared 11 years of love, laughter, ...

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

Frazier is set to die by nitrogen gas for the murder of Pauline Brown in Birmingham, Alabama in 1991. Critics say the method ...

When Brenda Andrew was on trial for murder in 2004 in Oklahoma, a prosecutor named Fern Smith turned to the jury and held up ...

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Andrew, the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row, has appealed her conviction for years, claiming the evidence presented against her violated her due process rights. The U.S. Court of Appeals for ...