ALEXANDRIA, La. (KALB) - Rapides Parish District Attorney Phillip Terrell has obtained a death warrant for death row inmate Larry Roy. Governor Jeff Landry announced on Monday the Department of Public ...

It is unacceptable that a company in our state would violate the wishes of its neighbors and help carry out executions for other jurisdictions,” said one legislative champion.

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 ...

Demetrius Terrence Frazier's final meal was a popular takeaway choice, after spending three decades in prison.

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 ...

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

Indiana Gov. Mike Braun suggested Monday he could reverse the previous administration’s unwillingness to disclose how much ...

Two mass clemency decisions contributed. But more prisoners leave death row after courts overturn their sentences. As a ...

After the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate, he decided not to ask the governor for ...

Rejon Taylor told Newsweek that he had received notice he would be transferred to ADX Florence, a "supermax" facility known for its harsh conditions.

But for Cooper’s action, 2024 would have been the first year since 2016 in which no state granted clemency to any inmate on death row. In place after place, clemency boards and governors turned ...