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.

Billie Allen is an artist and a writer, formerly on federal death row. He was convicted for the 1997 murder of security guard Richard Heflin during an armed robbery at a bank in St. Louis ...

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 ...

The president commuted the death sentences of almost all of the men on federal death row, but left out three of the most well-known, including Roof. Joe Biden believes the death penalty "must stop ...

told McClatchy News in a phone interview. State death row In the executive order signed by Trump at the start of his second term, he calls on the attorney general to “further evaluate” whether ...