Tiana Broadnax, a British law graduate, was with her husband James Broadnax on the morning of his execution in Texas, ...

Tiana Broadnax found her husband James Broadnax in tears when she visited him on the morning of his execution in Texas, just ...

Paul Skalnik passed himself off as a fighter pilot, a high-rolling oilman, a criminal defense attorney and a terminal cancer ...

Wright’s reporting initially resulted in a 20,000-word magazine story, “ The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’ Death ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright's new book, 'Redemption: Faith, Justice, and Sisterhood on Death Row,' offers ...

The Pulitzer prize-winning writer’s new book looks at the women on death row in Texas and the nuns who have been trying to help them ...

The botched execution of a woman in Tennessee and the controversy over the live broadcast of a firing squad execution have thrust the debate over the US death penalty back into the public square.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with writer Lawrence Wright about his latest book, "Redemption: Faith, Justice, and Sisterhood on Death Row." ...

In “Redemption,” the Pulitzer Prize winner Lawrence Wright asks whether people sentenced to die in Texas should have a second ...

This week a roller coast in Georgia brought renewed attention to past amusement park tragedies - including one incident that ...

Broadnax was sentenced to death for the 2008 murders of music producers Stephen Swan, 26, and Matthew Butler, 28, outside a ...

The young woman described the torture and murder of her sister, as well as the pain that her family still experienced every ...