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 ...

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 ...

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.

A memo directs DOJ staff to pursue the death penalty for undocumented immigrants who have been charged with capital crimes, ...

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.

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 ...

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

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

Louisiana has approved a protocol for executions by nitrogen hypoxia, which will allow death sentences to be carried out ...

Roman Catholic Church leader, Archbishop Charles C. Thompson of Indianapolis, has fully endorsed House Bill 1030 to abolish ...