Emails, calls, and compassion tied Rob and Michele Reiner to a Texas death row inmate in a story few ever knew.

At 44 executions and three more on the schedule, 2025 is on track to be the deadliest year on American death rows in more than a decade. Texas has, by far, led the nation in executions since the death ...

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