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The Rev. Jeff Hood has made a career of fighting to save men the state wants to kill — and it doesn't matter if they're ...

Marwa fled Taliban rule in Afghanistan because she wanted to study, work, wear jeans, and go to the park without a male ...

South Carolina death row inmate has asked to die by firing squad just five weeks after the state carried out its first ...

Early 2019, nearly a year before anyone had even heard of a Covid pandemic, Dr. Joan Parkin spent a chilly January weekend in ...

When 67-year-old Brad Sigmon was put to death on March 7 in South Carolina for the murder of his then-girlfriend's parents, ...

For United Methodist minister Hillary Taylor, there's a reward in introducing outsiders to someone who is kind and ...

A Texas woman was on death row for 27 years. But questions over a key witness could have her soon walking out of prison - ...

Louisiana executed a man convicted of murder with nitrogen gas on Tuesday evening, capping a raging legal battle that ended ...

No physical evidence tied Kenneth Hartley to the 1991 kidnap/murder of Gino Mayhew, 17. Instead, prosecutor George Bateh ...

Marcus Mitchell has advocated for access to a high school education for individuals on death row for nearly two decades. Now, ...

Louisiana’s leaders have the power to choose mercy over death, to affirm that our justice system is capable of grace. Jessie ...