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Mississippi has executed the longest-serving man on its death row nearly 50 years after he was convicted of murder.
Death Row Inmate Aims To Support Family By Selling His Journals, Art For $80K. Death Row inmate Albert Jones has documented the conditions of the prison system through his journals and cookbooks.
Olatushani is an artist and activist who spent 28 years in prison-20 on death row-for a murder he did not commit. Born in St. Louis, he was wrongfully convicted in 1985 for a Memphis killing.
The Supreme Court has ruled for a Texas death row inmate who's seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for ...
Death row inmate puts San Quentin journals, art up for sale at $80,000. ... his spiritual journey as a condemned man and death row prison food, among other topics. (Courtesy of Albert Jones) ...
In the following months, hundreds of death row inmates fell sick as COVID-19 swept through San Quentin State Prison's east block, the crowded warren of concrete and iron cells, stacked five ...
Death watch is the two-day period before an execution when a death row inmate is placed under 24-hour observation and stricter rules. Smith's execution is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. on May 22.
California death row inmate Julian Mendez killed in Kern Valley State Prison allegedly involving more than 30 inmates, with Mario Renteria as the alleged initial attacker.
Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate is set to be executed Wednesday nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer's wife in a violent ransom scheme.
The Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled that a Memphis judge did not have the authority to give a man formerly on death row concurrent sentences of life in prison. The judge had ruled that the man ...
On a balmy day in April 1977, Gov. Mills E. Godwin and a bevy of prison officials, some dressed in seersucker suits, performed a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a cluster of ...
Jones has nonetheless embraced a sense of purpose in prison, documenting community life on San Quentin's death row through writing and art. He has been held up as a model prisoner and met with Gov ...