This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about how the system works here and a firsthand account from a reporter who witnessed an execution here.

Tennessee this year plans to resume capital punishment after a five-year hiatus. The DOJ renounced the use of the drug pentobarbital in executions during the Biden administration, but Tennessee and ...

Scotty Gardner wants out of “his cave” at the Varner SuperMax Prison south of Grady, Arkansas. In messages with USA TODAY, he described the conditions of his cell as, “a walk-in closet with a shower, ...

Convicted killer Wade Wilson is one of eight death row inmates connected to Southwest Florida crimes. Seven of the inmates are from Lee County, while one is from Collier County. Some inmates, like ...

This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about the lives of death row inmates at the Polunsky Unit here and a first-person account from a reporter who ...

Florida’s death row inmates spend 23 hours a day in their 6-by-9 foot cells, passing time by watching TV on prison-issued devices, reading books or magazines, studying their case files or writing ...

As part of our Memorial Day special, we continue our interview with Ohio death row inmate Keith LaMar live from the Ohio State Penitentiary, after the release of The Injustice of Justice, a short film ...

Heather Mitchell shows a photograph of her husband Marcus Mitchell who has been on death row in Raleigh’s Central Prison for 27 years. He has long been an advocate for death row inmates receiving ...