Some incidents are so disturbing that time doesn’t dull their impact. This is one of them. Christa Gail Pike has spent nearly ...

Across the country, dozens of organizations connect people on the outside with death row inmates through pen pal programs.

Chuck Thompson has been on Texas Death Row for 27 years and is set to be executed in January. Credit: April Towery For Charles Victor Thompson, the one constant in his life has been the almost three ...

Edward Zakrzewski II, 60, has spent nearly half of his life on Death Row, where next Thursday he is to be the ninth person executed in 2025, a modern one-year Florida record. Only Gov. Ron DeSantis, ...

The last time anybody saw Charlotte Cook was January 3, 1974. That afternoon, the college student and community organizer, a young mother and widow, left her home in Oakland to visit her sister in San ...

As a teenager, Christa Pike killed another young girl at a job training center. Now, the state has moved forward with plans to kill Pike. The Tennessee Supreme Court scheduled Pike's execution for ...

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has spared the life of a death row inmate just before he was set to receive a lethal injection on Thursday, commuting the man’s sentence to life in ...

It’s a topic that can make you pause and think about the gravity of the human experience: the final meal request of a death row inmate. These meals are often a reflection of a life lived, for better ...