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

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

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

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

Two men convicted of murder were executed Thursday night, marking the fourth and fifth executions in the United States this ...

A Tennessee death row prisoner who murdered a teen couple from Chickamauga, Georgia has declared a hunger strike, saying he ...

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

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

A Texas man who murdered a strip club manager and smuggled a cellphone into death row to threaten a lawmaker is set to be ...

A Texas man who murdered his strip club manager and another man, then later prompted a massive lockdown of the state prison ...

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 ...