A Monroe developer may soon claim the central midfield section of Pineville’s Central State Hospital to use for senior or ...

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 ...

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

This is a clear example of judicial harassment made in retaliation for simply exercising one’s right to protest and freedoms ...

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

A Kentucky lawmaker is hoping his quest to limit the pardon powers of governors in his state has received a jolt of momentum from public attention over the flurry of pardons and commuted sentences ...

Two men in Texas are sentenced to death for murdering their children — for one of them, it is already too late. For the other ...

Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury pool and to impose the death penalty in the 2009 trial of a Black man in North Carolina, a judge ruled ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court has set a March 7 date for the latest execution in the state’s suddenly busy death chamber ...

Demetrius Terrence Frazier, 52, was convicted of the 1991 murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown. Frazier raped and shot her ...

Demetrius Frazier apologized to the loved ones of one of the women he murdered and uttered two final words before he was ...