STARKE, Florida — The lights never go out in Cell 4 of Florida State Prison’s death watch unit, and on the night of March 14, 1988, Willie Jasper Darden sat beneath the harsh fluorescent…
WALPOLE, Mass. — A man who confessed to being the Boston Strangler, one of the most infamous serial killers in American history, was found brutally murdered in his maximum-security prison cell in a killing…
The state of Oklahoma spent 43 minutes killing Clayton Lockett on April 29, 2014, and in the process, it 𝓮𝔁𝓹𝓸𝓼𝓮𝓭 a justice system willing to gamble with human life using untested chemicals in a…
The clock at San Quentin has stopped, and with it, a life that became the most contested symbol of American justice in the modern era. Caryl Chessman is dead. The 46-year-old convicted kidnapper was…
The electric chair had been Florida’s method of execution for decades, a grim instrument of state power that had ended more than 200 lives since 1923. On the morning of July 8, 1999, it…
The jury took just two and a half hours to decide that Tanner Horner will die by lethal injection, and in that brief moment, a Fort Worth courtroom transformed from a place of legal…