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

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 ...

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 ...

He sought justice from injustice. He sought life for those on Death Row. He urged others to, “do unto others as you would ...

Over Six Saturdays from Feb. 1 to March 8, from 11 a.m.-1 p.m., at Emmanuel Parish Hall, learn about Buddhism through an ...

The Death Penalty Information Center’s recent annual report contained good news for those opposed to capital punishment. The ...

Christopher Lightsey, the man who is on death row for a murder he committed in 1993 in Kern County, was resentenced to death ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The state prison ... involving prison inmates in the hands of the Attorney General’s office. Authorities investigating 35-year-old woman’s death A judge recently ...