Throughout the history of capital punishment in America, states have reviewed and revised execution methods in the interest of finding a more "humane" option.
Sometimes the act of one person can alter the entire course of someone else's life. For Joyce Ride, that act was befriending a prisoner named Gloria Killian.
When priest Neil Kookoothe discovered a piece of evidence in the death row case against Joe D'Ambrosio, he said his "heart sank into the pit of his stomach."