Death Row
"All of a sudden, I knew I wanted to help condemned people get to higher ground," says Bryan Stevenson.
Fewer people were sentenced to death than at any time since the '70s.
"More people have said, 'What can I do to help you?' in the last 14 hours of my life than they ever did in the first 19 years."
WHAT'S HAPPENING
About 300 military vets, some with battle-induced afflictions, await execution.
Ernest Lee Johnson claims the execution drug could cause painful seizures because he still has part of a benign tumor in his brain.
Thomas Loden Jr. pleaded guilty in the rape and killing of a waitress in 2000.
The Supreme Court rejected Correll's appeal to postpone the execution.
"You can't get mercy unless you give it."
For two hours, the justices grappled with the process of death sentencing.