The debate on whether the death penalty deters and lowers rates of crime is a long-simmering one, with both sides variously ...

Two men in Texas are sentenced to death for murdering their children — for one of them, it is already too late. For the other ...

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

One of Trump’s most despicable day-one executive orders revoked Biden’s moratorium on federal executions, ensured that states ...

James Ford has sat on death row since 1999 for killing Gregory and Kimberly Malnory in Charlotte County. On Thursday, he will be put to death and Fox 4 will be there to bring you coverage.

Some view the death penalty as a “merciful” source of closure to the victim’s family and friends. But after a brief period of ...

If nitrogen hypoxia is used, an inmate breathes 100 percent nitrogen, which causes suffocation. Louisiana is one of four states that have approved it for executions.

If you were wrongfully convicted of a crime in Oklahoma and got released today, the state would give you a maximum of ...

Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...

From the daily newsletter: an editor’s note from Daniel Zalewski. Plus: Jia Tolentino on Joan Didion on Martha Stewart; ...

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