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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 ...

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

A 'dearly loved' young Melbourne mother was murdered by her partner who later killed himself in a gruesome style while ...

Death Row inmates are given one final request before they die. The Mirror takes a look at the strangest and bizarre prison ...

Former U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 people on federal death row to life imprisonment. A ...

"What their story shows is that redemption is possible, even in the most horrific of circumstances," Rev. Jeff Hood said of ...

Businesses in several Kurdish cities in Iran went on strike Wednesday after Kurdish groups called for a protest against the death sentences of two female political prisoners. Six Kurdish groups ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in favor of convicted murderer Brenda Andrew, the only woman on Oklahoma's death row, ordering a lower court to review whether she got a fair trial for ...

She was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the Nov. 2001 and was sentenced to death. The 29-page Supreme Court ruling details how Rob Andrew was fatally shot in ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KOCO) — The case of Oklahoma’s only woman on death row received new attention on Tuesday by the U.S. Supreme Court. Brenda Andrew, who was convicted for conspiring to kill her ...