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

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 ...

After two decades on death row, Bowman will on Friday become South Carolina’s 46th execution since the death penalty was ...

An man convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment as she slept was put to death Thursday evening in ...

yet he has already spent more than half of his life on death row. He cannot in good conscience ask for a supposed mercy that ...

In a 120-page order, Superior Court Judge Wayland Sermons also ruled that race was “a significant factor” in other death ...

Convicted murderer James Ford is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection Friday in Florida's first execution of 2025 ...

South Carolina has put 45 inmates to death since the death penalty was restarted in the U.S. in 1976. In the early 2000s, it ...

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board on Wednesday voted 4-1 to deny clemency to a death row inmate who said last month he is ...

A French court commuted the sentence of Serge Atlaoui, who was allowed to return to France last week after 18 years on death ...

Bowman, who has been on death row for more than half his life ... conscience ask for a supposed mercy that would require him to spend the rest of his life in prison for a crime he did not commit,” ...