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.

It is believed it would be the first public ex*****on in the US in almost a century.
10/10/2026

It is believed it would be the first public ex*****on in the US in almost a century.

Pete Hegseth says the ex*****on will be public, but a legal expert says the "unprecedented" decision is on "uncertain legal terrain".

Jamaal Howard, 46, was pronounced dead at 8.03pm after receiving a fatal dose of pentobarbital, a sedative, at the state...
10/08/2026

Jamaal Howard, 46, was pronounced dead at 8.03pm after receiving a fatal dose of pentobarbital, a sedative, at the state prison in Huntsville.

Jamaal Howard, 46, executed by fatal dose of pentobarbital after lawyers’ bid for stay had been denied

The US Army is averse to capital punishment and has not carried out an ex*****on in decades.
10/07/2026

The US Army is averse to capital punishment and has not carried out an ex*****on in decades.

The US Army is averse to capital punishment and has not carried out an ex*****on in decades.

10/07/2026

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

Jamaal Howard is set to die this Wednesday, the first scheduled U.S. ex*****on after one was badly botched in Tennessee.
10/06/2026

Jamaal Howard is set to die this Wednesday, the first scheduled U.S. ex*****on after one was badly botched in Tennessee.

After a botched ex*****on in Tennessee, Texas is set to kill Jamaal Howard, who has so many mental health problems and intellectual disabilities that he doesn't understand how he will be killed.

Texas has put five African American men to death in a row, after last month’s killings of LeJames Norman and Ker’sean Ol...
10/04/2026

Texas has put five African American men to death in a row, after last month’s killings of LeJames Norman and Ker’sean Olajuwa Ramey.

Now Texas tries to kill a sixth

Wednesday night was the second time in five months that Tennessee had failed to carry out an ex*****on.
10/02/2026

Wednesday night was the second time in five months that Tennessee had failed to carry out an ex*****on.

Pike alive but in critical condition as experts call ordeal that unfolded in Tennessee ‘unimaginably barbaric’

Sixteen Death Row inmates executed in 2026 which makes the Sunshine State by far the most prolific out of any US territo...
10/01/2026

Sixteen Death Row inmates executed in 2026 which makes the Sunshine State by far the most prolific out of any US territory.

Sixteen Death Row inmates executed in 2026 which makes the Sunshine State by far the most prolific out of any US territory.

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