The New Yorker3d
The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’s Death Row
Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...
Once filled with rage, Texas death row inmate set to be executed is now 'a gentle human'
During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...
The New Yorker2d
The Ladies on Death Row
From the daily newsletter: an editor’s note from Daniel Zalewski. Plus: Jia Tolentino on Joan Didion on Martha Stewart; ...
Texas Standard20h
A sisterhood of nuns is quietly emerging on Texas death row
Those housed in the O'Daniel Unit in Gatesville, including such names as Melissa Lucio, have had their lives touched by a ...
'A monster': Demetrius Frazier executed by nitrogen gas in Alabama for woman's 1991 murder
Alabama executed Demetrius Frazier for the 1991 murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown two days before Thanksgiving.
Ala. Inmate Executed by Nitrogen Gas For Raping, Killing Woman in 1991
An Alabama death row inmate who raped and murdered a woman in 1991 was executed this week using nitrogen gas, making him the ...
The Atlantic12d
Shamed Onto Death Row
Today, 51 women are on death row, compared with more than 2,000 men. But for those women who do face capital sentencing, a particular kind of disadvantage based on their sex can arise: Although ...
Clemency denied for death row inmate convicted of 2005 murder of 23-year-old woman
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond's office advocated against clemency for Wendell Arden Grissom, who was convicted ...