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 ...

A Jordanian immigrant on death row lodged complaints against the Houston lawyers who handled his 2018 capital murder trial ...

Women from 17 different countries are working together to coordinate the global struggle against mass incarceration.

The U.S. Department of Justice said McCoy compelled victims to commit hundreds of commercial sex acts between 2019 and 2021.

Gloria Rubac remembers the thick crowd, primarily composed of students from Sam Houston State University, and the way they cheered outside the red-brick Texas State Penitentiary as the sun set. Having ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A man nicknamed the “Deacon of Death” was executed Tuesday evening, nearly 30 years after committing two murders in Plant City. Samuel Smithers, 72, was a church deacon when he ...