More than half of prisoners sentenced to death in the United States have been on death row for more than 18 years. Texas, ...

If unclaimed after an execution, the state pays for cremation or burial, and the remains are buried at the Captain Joe Byrd ...

Only a tiny fraction of those condemned to death in the United States are women. Yet their stories reveal how gender, trauma, and systemic bias combine to influence who receives the death penalty and ...

Separated from the general prison population, Texas death row inmates spend at least 22 hours a day alone in their cells.

Death row inmates are executed at the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville, which is also known as the "Walls Unit. (Annie Mulligan For The Texas Tribune, Annie Mulligan For The Texas Tribune) Sign ...