Kevin Burns says every day is the best day of his life. In his nearly 30 years on death row, he has been ordained as a pastor and started a church.

Four executions are scheduled this year with a new lethal injection protocol and the ethical and legal debate is intensifying ...

“This culture of noncompliance, when combined with the risk-prone nature of pentobarbital poisoning as a method of execution, ...

Marcus Mitchell has advocated for access to a high school education for individuals on death row for nearly two decades. Now, ...

Louisiana is restarting death penalty executions next week for the first time in 15 years, using nitrogen gas to execute ...

Nine men on death row in Tennessee have filed a legal challenge against the state’s newly-adopted lethal injection protocol, ...

A federal court judge has denied Briley Wayne Piper's petition to to appeal his death sentence. The man remains on death row.

Attorneys for Bowman and other men on death row, including Brad Sigmon, who was executed by firing squad on March 7, have argued that there is not enough information about South Carolina’s ...

After weeks of legal maneuvers to delay Jessie Hoffman's execution, including a last-minute appeal denial from the U.S.

Louisiana’s leaders have the power to choose mercy over death, to affirm that our justice system is capable of grace. Jessie ...

Mitchell also became an orderly, a role in which he does general duties for the other men on death row, and he organizes basketball and cornhole tournaments. “For these guys in here who are lost ...