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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 ...
A ‘good ‘ol American boy’ and a bubbly woman everyone loved. Who were James Ford's victims?
As James Dennis Ford is set to be executed in Florida, we take a look at the lives of his victims, Kimberly and Gregory ...
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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; ...
'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 ...
Shamed Onto Death Row
When Brenda Andrew was on trial for murder in 2004 in Oklahoma, a prosecutor named Fern Smith turned to the jury and held up ...
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San Antonio church provided spiritual comfort for first woman on death row in Texas
Texas's first female condemned killer received special permission to leave jail and be baptized at New Light Baptist Church ...
Death Row killer who raped and murdered woman executed with nitrogen gas as mum pleads
Demetrius Terrence Frazier, 52, was executed using controversial nitrogen gas in the early hours of Friday morning - his ...
Mum's plea as Death Row sicko who raped and murdered woman in her home is executed with nitrogen gas
Demetrius Terrence Frazier has been executed using controversial nitrogen gas tonight for the rape and murder of Pauline ...
What to know about the death penalty and death row in Texas
Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...
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Cleveland Clark was taken off death row and handed a life sentence for the brutal killing of Sparkle Rai.
A grisly case that took over national news years ago, involving a hitman hired to kill a Black Atlanta woman, now has a new development. The convicted killer is no longer sentenced to be executed.