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 ...

A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his own church is facing execution on Wednesday evening ...

Convicted killer James Ford has died by lethal injection. Family members of the victims attended his execution and spoke out after Ford was declared dead.

With a great ability to mobilise opinions comes the risk of running into controversies. That has been the case of Ranveer ...

A Tennessee death row prisoner has declared a hunger strike, saying he is protesting issues with medical care, the quality of ...

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mothed one final message before being put to death in Texas ...

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

Howard Willis was sentenced to death in 2010 for the murders eight years earlier of newlyweds Adam Chrismer, 17, and Samantha ...

Joseph Johnson was the last person put to death by electrocution in Texas, on July 30, 1964. The men are housed in the Polunsky Unit in Livingston in single cells ... on death row in Texas ...

Procedures for their executions should meet human rights standards. Death row inmates are informed of their executions on the day they are carried out and then escorted to the scaffold.

The family of a man who was crushed to death in a freak accident fear they may never find out what caused the pop-up urinal he was working on to drop suddenly. Maintenance engineer Kevin Holding ...