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

A Frenchman reprieved after 18 years on death row in Indonesia on drug offences will have to serve 30 years in jail after ...

A French court commuted the sentence of Serge Atlaoui, who was allowed to return to France last week after 18 years on death ...

Raymond Lee Oyler set a fire that killed five firefighters in 2006. The California Supreme Court will decide if he remains on death row, writes Robin Epley of The Sacramento Bee.

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

Arizona Supreme Court sets March 11 execution date for Aaron Gunches, who killed a man in 2002 and has spent years fighting ...

By Ritika Jain On the morning of January 20, anticipation filled the courtroom in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram district as the ...

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

I Am Ready, Warden,” nominated for an Oscar, follows John Henry Ramirez in the days before he was executed in Texas for murder. It also spotlights the sons of both Ramirez and his victim.

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 ...

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 ...