Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order to impose a moratorium on the death penalty in California. The order will prevent the state from putting prisoners to death by granting temporary reprieves ...

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 ...

Tennessee has scheduled the execution of Christa Gail Pike, the only woman on the state's death row. Florida has executed two women in its history: Serial killer Aileen Wuornos in 2002 and 'Black ...

Love behind bars is one thing, but for these British women, romance has crossed an extraordinary and deeply controversial ...

Lisa Jo Chamberlin, Mississippi's only woman on death row, said she was retaliated against for speaking up about her ...

There have been 10 executions in the U.S. since the start of 2026, including the execution of James Broadnax on Thursday. There are more than 30 scheduled executions remaining this year. As of April ...

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 ...