Across the country, dozens of organizations connect people on the outside with death row inmates through pen pal programs.

>> LOOK AT THIS BEHIND US. THIS IS THE NUMBER OF DEATH PENALTY EXECUTIONS IN OUR COUNTRY SINCE 1977. YOU SEE THE LATE 90'S. THAT WAS THE PEAK. BUT THEN A GRADUAL DECLINE. >> THAT IS UNTIL NOW. THIS UP ...

15 MINUTES. CAMERON. YEAH, BACK TO THE BREAKING NEWS THIS MORNING. OKLAHOMA DEATH ROW INMATE TRAMAINE WOOD WAS JUST SAVED FROM EXECUTION AT THE LAST MINUTE. A DRAMATIC MOVE FROM GOVERNOR KEVIN STITT ...

Editor's note: This database contains descriptions of violent crimes. There are 113 people sitting on Ohio's death row. Some were sentenced to death decades ago, for murders committed in the 1980s and ...

Chuck Thompson has been on Texas Death Row for 27 years and is set to be executed in January. Credit: April Towery For Charles Victor Thompson, the one constant in his life has been the almost three ...

I first met William Noguera in June 2013 when he was on San Quentin’s Death Row in San Quentin, California. I was led into a cage where there was a small table and two chairs among other cages with ...

Florida Supreme Court Justice Gerald Kogan was distraught. The court’s harsh rules compelled him to agree to an impending execution he thought was unjust. He wrote a concurring opinion that was a cry ...

This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about the lives of death row inmates at the Polunsky Unit here and a first-person account from a reporter who ...

Death row executions nearly doubled this year compared to last in a rise driven largely by one state — Florida On Thursday night, Florida executed its 19th person on death row this year, more than ...