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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 ...

Nelson tells “Banfield” he was merely a lookout for two accomplices during a robbery that spiraled out of control.

Death Row inmates are given one final request before they die. The Mirror takes a look at the strangest and bizarre prison ...

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

Postwar Japan has seen four cases where a death-row inmate with a finalized sentence ... (This article is based on an interview by Izumi Sakurai.) ...

A Death Row killer who brutally murdered a pastor with a plastic bag in his church uttered three chilling final words to the warden as he was executed. Steven Lawayne Nelson, a Texas death row ...

Steven Nelson has spent more than a dozen years on Death Row in Texas and is to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for the murder of a pastor he insists he did not commit. “It’s hard at ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. A death row killer who shot his friend before her bullet-ridden body was found in a scorched car is set to be executed on Friday. In May 2002 ...

An Oklahoma board has rejected clemency for a man sentenced to die for fatally shooting a woman during a 2005 home-invasion robbery.