Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright's new book, 'Redemption: Faith, Justice, and Sisterhood on Death Row,' offers "an appeal to conscience" for seven women inmates on death row in Texas.

DEATH row killer Christa Pike attempted a second grisly murder while serving a life sentence in prison. Pike, who remains in hospital after surviving two doses of lethal injection, was found

A failed execution in Tennessee has renewed attention on women on death row. Here are the women on North Carolina’s death row.

The first woman sentenced to death in Tennessee in 200 years said she is “at peace” before her rare execution — as the state’s governor declined to get involved in her last-ditch bid for clemency. “Whether my clemency is granted or not,

It's been a long 30-year wait, but the day has almost arrived. Next week, May Martinez plans to sit in the front row of a Tennessee execution chamber, clutching a picture of her late daughter as she watches her killer, Christa Pike, take her final breaths.

A Texas court on Thursday rejected a ruling that a woman on death row for 18 years is innocent of capital murder in the killing of her 2-year-old daughter in a case that attracted bipartisan calls from lawmakers and celebrities to release her from prison.

The combination of nuns and death row hooked author Lawrence Wright the moment a friend on a walk mentioned it in a casual conversation about a Catholic prison ministry.