Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

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

All executions have been stayed in Montana since 2015 because the state requires the use of an "ultra-fast-acting barbiturate" that is no longer available.

Attorneys for convicted murderer James Ford have filed legal briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court in a last-ditch effort to ...

governor jeff landry announced today the sentences of death row inmates in our state will be carried out...after fifteen years of not carrying out the death penalty.

Governor Landry announced that the La. Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections has finalized and implemented an updated ...

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.

ALEXANDRIA, La. (KALB) - Rapides Parish District Attorney Phillip Terrell has obtained a death warrant for death row inmate Larry Roy. Governor Jeff Landry announced on Monday the Department of Public ...

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

A man was stabbed to death with a machete by two people in a park following a row, a court has heard. Kyle Marshall, 37, died after being injured during an incident in Wellhead Fields, Bourne, ...

Louisiana corrections officials have drafted and approved a new policy to allow the state to restart executing death row ...