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 ...

The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s efforts to bolster the federal death penalty and to encourage the 27 states ...

A death row inmate tried to say one final word before being executed, after beating and suffocating a pastor to death in ...

Texas death row inmate’s final words before execution are revealed - Steven Lawayane Nelson was the second person executed in ...

Texas man Steven Nelson, convicted in 2012 of murdering a pastor the year before, was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday evening.

Steven Lawayne Nelson was condemned for the 2011 killing of the Rev. Clint Dobson at a Baptist church in Arlington. Dobson’s ...

Alabama executed murderer and rapist Demetrius Terrance Frazier by nitrogen gas at 6 p.m. Thursday. He was convicted in the ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, died by lethal injection yesterday (February 5) at the state penitentiary in Huntsville ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson was handed the death penalty for killing of the 28-year-old during a robbery gone wrong - having ...

Frazier is set to die by nitrogen gas for the murder of Pauline Brown in Birmingham, Alabama in 1991. Critics say the method ...