Minutes Before Six

Minutes Before Six Our organization's mission is to give a voice to those silenced by incarceration. Minutes Before Six welcomes original entries from new writers.

Please send submissions to:

Minutes Before Six
2784 Homestead Road #301,
Santa Clara, CA 95051
U.S.A. Or email [email protected]

When possible, essays should be typed single-sided, double-spaced, with one-inch margins all around. Handwritten essays will also be considered. Please include contact information and a photo. All essays and photos will be returned. Writers will be notified if their essays are selected for publication.

Three Decades of “Consistent Torture” on Ohio’s Death Row…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week.
08/20/2026

Three Decades of “Consistent Torture” on Ohio’s Death Row…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week.

News and commentary on solitary confinement for the weeks ending 8/19/26.

MB6 is hosting its first-ever writing contest for incarcerated individuals across the United States. See comments for fu...
08/19/2026

MB6 is hosting its first-ever writing contest for incarcerated individuals across the United States. See comments for full details and deadlines. Please share with your loved ones!

California has not executed anybody in two decades, and Newsom issued a moratorium on executions in 2019, but the state ...
08/18/2026

California has not executed anybody in two decades, and Newsom issued a moratorium on executions in 2019, but the state still has the largest death row in the entire nation.

OPINION: Gov. Newsom should seize a historic opportunity to move California closer to ending the death penalty by commuting all of the death sentences in the state. But his time is running out.

08/16/2026

The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday affirmed Texas death row inmate Brittany Holberg’s sentence in a split decision among its full panel of judges, reversing the court’s previous ruling a year before.

A three-judge panel had reversed Holberg’s sentence in 2025, but Friday’s decision will keep the district court’s decision to affirm her conviction.

Rare scheduling in Oklahoma, Tennessee and Alabama underlines the renewed appetite in US for state killings.
08/15/2026

Rare scheduling in Oklahoma, Tennessee and Alabama underlines the renewed appetite in US for state killings.

Rare scheduling in Oklahoma, Tennessee and Alabama underlines the renewed appetite in US for state killings

Lebanon: Abolition of death penalty a landmark victory affirming justice must be rooted in human rights.
08/12/2026

Lebanon: Abolition of death penalty a landmark victory affirming justice must be rooted in human rights.

On 15/16 July the Lebanese parliament approved a law that abolishes the death penalty and replaces it with life imprisonment with hard labour as an alternative sentence.

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