A Clarion Ledger reporter recounts what it was like to witness Mississippi’s execution of Richard Jordan, who spent nearly 50 ...

Less than a week after a condemned prisoner won a last-minute stay from the U.S. Supreme Court because prison officials wouldn't let him have his Buddhist spiritual adviser in the execution ...

This image provided by the Florida Department of Corrections shows Thomas Lee Gudinas, who is scheduled to receive a lethal ...

NPR spoke with 26 people who were involved with more than 200 executions across the country. Most said their health suffered and they had little support to help them cope with their unusual jobs.

Texas bans all prison chaplains and clerics from the execution chamber days after a Supreme Court ruling on a Buddhist chaplain. ... it allows only prison employees in the execution room, ...

Cesar Hernandez, an inmate at the Huntsville Unit in Texas, got candid about execution day prison in an essay for the Prison Journalism Project. As of January 1, 2025, there were 2,092 inmates on ...

At 6:17 p.m., the group walked out of the waiting room and into the belly of the prison, briefly traveling outside down a sidewalk, past razor wire and a sally port.

This stark, almost peaceful looking room is actually Japan’s execution room. The ring on top holds the noose, the red square outlines the trapdoor and this is the first time Japan has ever shown ...

DEER LODGE - The last thing inmate David Dawson will see before he's put to death next month will be the white tiled ceiling in an aging 12-foot-by-48-foot, metal-sided house ...

The execution chamber at Montana State Prison — a decades-old, single-wide trailer house retrofitted to accommodate lethal injections — will be taken apart and hauled away this month, leaving the ...