Those housed in the O'Daniel Unit in Gatesville, including such names as Melissa Lucio, have had their lives touched by a ...

Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...

Kim Leadbeater suggests allowing psychiatrists and social workers to approve applications under new amendments ...

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

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

For the second week in a row, demonstrators gathered in the area to protest deportation efforts and other legislation they believe targets immigrants.

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

The stage often brings stars their greatest triumphs, but for some, it tragically becomes the site of their final act, from ...

In November 2017, following Trump’s inflammatory tweet about NFL running back Marshawn Lynch — who chose to remain seated ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson was to be put to death Wednesday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the 2011 killing ...

Snoop Dogg's decision to perform for a Donald Trump event has drawn criticism from the Black community. The rapper, who once ...