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 ...

Bowman’s execution was the third carried out in South Carolina since 2011, when the state unofficially halted executions as ...

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

It highlighted that the “space of a cell provided for each condemned prisoner is about 9 x 12 feet, with a single toilet to be used jointly by all the prisoners… . The death row prisoner is ...