Those housed in the O'Daniel Unit in Gatesville, including such names as Melissa Lucio, have had their lives touched by a ...

During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...

Massachusetts court rules Karen Read can be retried for murder, manslaughter and leaving the scene of boyfriend's death.

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 ...

Every week, behind a half dozen security doors that lead to Unit 2—Tennessee’s death row—Kevin Burns holds a worship service. He leads Communion, prayer, liturgy, and a sermon with men who share his ...

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

An inmate serving time for the brutal Christmas morning murder of a Philadelphia woman has died in a Pennsylvania state ...

Tam Le, a 53-year-old inmate on death row at the State Correctional Institution (SCI) at Phoenix, was found unresponsive in ...

Attorneys for the state said they planned to appeal the superior court judge’s ruling to the NC Supreme Court.

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