Criminal Justice

The custom "gurney" where prisoners are strapped down, arms spread out to either side, to prepare them for lethal injection.

The Sordid, Unscientific Story Behind Lethal Injection

A new book by a national expert explores the failures of the United States’ favored execution method.

by Michelle Pitcher

The Scientist and the Serial Killer: Cracking the Case of Houston’s ‘Lost Boys’

An Inside Look at Taser Use in Texas Prison

by Xandan Gulley

David Wood, Set for Execution, Says He Was Never the ‘Desert Killer’

by Michelle Pitcher

Requiem for a Border City

Dispatches from the Border Wall: Reynosa

by Melissa del Bosque

Settler, Immigrant, Alien

by Andrew Wainer

Painful Reminders

by Bill Minutaglio

Flawed Arson Cases Aren’t Just a Texas Problem

Plata por Plomo

Dispatches from the Border Wall: McAllen

by Melissa del Bosque

Should Mexico Legalize Drugs?

Dispatches from the Border Wall: Matamoros

by Melissa del Bosque

Troubled Times

by Julia Barton

Equal Over Time

by Robert Leleux

War Without End