A Tennessee death row prisoner declared a hunger strike on Wednesday, saying he was protesting issues with medical care, the ...

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 ...

During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

I love everyone on Death Row. Let’s go ... according to Alabama Corrections Commissioner John Hamm. He added that he believed that Frazier quickly lost consciousness after the gas was ...

Alabama executed murderer and rapist Demetrius Terrance Frazier by nitrogen gas at 6 p.m. Thursday. He was convicted in the ...

Steven Lawayane Nelson, 37, was executed via lethal injection and was pronounced dead at 6:50pm CST at the Texas state penitentiary ... He was sentenced to death after he was convicted of shooting ...

South Carolina went 13 years between executions before restarting them last year in part because the state couldn't obtain drugs for lethal injections. A shield law passed in 2023 keeps private the ...

The state had 63 condemned inmates in early 2011. It currently has 29. About 20 inmates have been taken off death row and received different prison sentences after successful appeals. Others have died ...

SCI Rockview is also where the state executes prisoners on death row, though they’re housed at other prisons. The report notes that the “execution center” could be moved to SCI Brenner ...