The Independent Florida Alligator

‘A window to the outside’: 3 death row pen pals reflect on their relationships with inmates

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

Death Row Inmate Says He’s Not Done Living

Chuck Thompson has been on Texas Death Row for 27 years and is set to be executed in January. Credit: April Towery For Charles Victor Thompson, the one constant in his life has been the almost three ...
The Nation

Death Row Prisoners Granted Clemency by Biden Brace for “Living Hell” Under Trump

Trump officials are retaliating by imposing the harshest conditions in the entire federal prison system—including near total isolation. Inside the federal supermax tucked away in Colorado’s high ...
WESH

Death row executions nearly doubled this year. Here's where and why

>> LOOK AT THIS BEHIND US. THIS IS THE NUMBER OF DEATH PENALTY EXECUTIONS IN OUR COUNTRY SINCE 1977. YOU SEE THE LATE 90'S. THAT WAS THE PEAK. BUT THEN A GRADUAL DECLINE. >> THAT IS UNTIL NOW. THIS UP ...
NBC DFW

Limbo on death row: How Texas' capital punishment system works

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 ...