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

A state district judge has signed death warrants setting execution dates for two men convicted of murders in Caddo Parish -- ...

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

Kevin Burns is the pastor of the Church of Life, a congregation for the men on Tennessee's death row. Burns was convicted of felony murder and sentenced to death, but he maintains he was at the ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Each of the 24 men and the sole woman had been convicted of violent crimes, and 16 were on death row. Elaine’s decades of kindness became a topic of research. In October last year, I listened to ...

Mikal Mahdi, who killed a South Carolina police officer during a multi-state crime spree, has chosen to die by firing squad.

Mississippi currently has 37 prisoners on death row, with no execution dates set for 2025. Two men on death row were once again denied relief after a review by the Mississippi Supreme Court.