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 ...

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 ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson sat on death row for 14 years awaiting lethal injection. After his Feb. 5 execution, advocates are ...

Demetrius Frazier, 52, was sentenced to death in 1996 for the 1991 murder of 40-year-old Pauline Brown, a mother of two, in ...

A man in Texas convicted of beating and suffocating a pastor during a church robbery was executed in Huntsville on Wednesday evening, and used his last words to tell his wife he loved her. The ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson was condemned for the 2011 killing of the Rev. Clint Dobson at a Baptist church in Arlington. Dobson’s ...