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

Some of America's death row inmates are getting a rare set of privileges which inmates say have "given guys hope". Death row in Texas is considered one of the harshest in the nation. For decades ...

Prison officials moved inmate Oscar Franklin Smith from his death row cell to another room next to the chamber where he is to be executed by lethal injection. Smith's attorney, Kelley Henry, a chief ...

When the state decides to take a life, the rationale behind it should be crystal clear, as should the series of decisions that propel inmates from their death row cells to the execution chamber. Gov.

Prison officials moved inmate Harold Wayne Nichols from his death row cell to another room next to the chamber where he is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection. Nichols, 64, was placed on ...

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 ...