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

The state has never used that method to execute a prisoner. The last time an inmate was killed by a firing squad was in 2010 ...

A remarkable alliance between an order of Catholic nuns and the women on Texas's death row. 2 hour 28 min listen For the best audio experience, scan the code with your phone to download the New ...

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

She was sentenced to death by a Yemeni court in 2020 NEW DELHI: The government is providing all assistance to the family of Nimisha Priya, an Indian on death row in Yemen after being convicted of ...

5 people from the Treasure Coast have been executed since 1939. The most recent was David Alan Gore, 58, of Vero Beach, in 2012. One was a 17-year-old White City boy, in 1948. 7 of the 277 people ...

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

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...

Part of that series focuses on the prison system, and Wright focuses in on one part of that women’s death row in a new article for The New Yorker. The article begins with a description of a ...

His attorneys say he does not want to die in the electric chair, and he plans ... have put more inmates to death. But since the unintentional pause, the death row population has dwindled to ...

"He should have gotten the electric chair," she said ... According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 12 death row inmates have so far been scheduled for execution in South Carolina ...