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Every week, behind a half dozen security doors that lead to Unit 2—Tennessee’s death row—Kevin Burns holds a worship service. He leads Communion, prayer, liturgy, and a sermon with men who share his ...

Demetrius Frazier became the fourth inmate in the US to be put to death by the method as he served his sentence for the 1991 ...

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

Death Row inmates are given one final request before they die. The Mirror takes a look at the strangest and bizarre prison ...

Lindsay Sandiford, who was sentenced to death in 2013 after trying to smuggle cocaine into Bali, could gain her freedom if ...

Death row populations in the United States have declined to historic lows. The Death Penalty Policy Project reviewed 50 years of data and found that U.S. death rows shrank more last year than any ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. A death row killer who shot his friend before her bullet-ridden body was found in a scorched car is set to be executed on Friday. In May 2002 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - The South Carolina Supreme Court has rejected a death row inmate’s request for information on the most recent execution, which was carried out last week. Brad Sigmon will be ...