Scott Panetti, whose Supreme Court case protects the seriously mentally ill from execution, died of natural causes on death row in Texas. Texas spent 30 years attempting to execute Panetti, despite ...

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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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO — By age 46, Bob Williams had spent more than half his life in isolation, waiting to die on San Quentin’s death row. Williams was 18 when he raped and murdered 40-year-old Mary Breck at ...

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 ...

Florida’s death row inmates spend 23 hours a day in their 6-by-9 foot cells, passing time by watching TV on prison-issued devices, reading books or magazines, studying their case files or writing ...