PROLOGUE: A KISS WITH POISON In the sticky heat of the American South, down where the air hums with mosquitos and menace, lived a woman...

3:42 AM – Death Watch Cell, Livingston, Texas The buzzing overhead light never shuts off. Lisa Tucker hasn’t slept in what feels like a...

Chapter One: Cheap Rooms and Cheaper Promises Theresa Blanchard met Edward Jones on a Thursday, under the flickering neon buzz of a Gulf...

Chapter 1: The Orange Groves of Orlando Before she was infamous, before her name was etched in court transcripts and tabloid headlines,...

Fictionalized narrative based on true events John Louis Evans III was never meant to live long. Not by his own standards, and certainly...

They don’t call me “Executioner.” Not around the prison, anyhow. On paper I’m still “Senior Electrical Technician,” a title I held since...

The sun dipped low over the Cumberland River, the haze of late summer thickening the Nashville air as darkness crept across the grounds...

Folks around Richmond still whisper her name like a prayer you daren’t finish. Born Julie Bannister , she breezed through debutante balls...

They call me The Widowmaker . Born Jolene Ray, child of the oil rigs and sweat-slick truck stops of east Texas. I was forty-five when...

Saturday February 24th 11:06.P.M. Lafayette County Jail house. Brenda Taylor sat in her tiny cell contemplating her situation. She was...

This story follows the point of view of a woman on death row who witnessed her friend going to the electric chair. The first thing that I...

PART I: Sentence They say you always remember the day you die.For Caroline Watson, the memory had begun ten years earlier—etched into her...

Chapter One: Blood in the Lot The summer of ’77 came down on Pensacola like a fever. The sun baked the blacktop ‘til it sizzled, and the...

The day had finally arrived. The gray dawn filtered through the small, barred window of Mary Lee's cell, casting long shadows across the...