Around two dozen people gathered in Franklin on Sept. 26 to celebrate the launch of a new book by Tennessee death row inmate and Pastor Kevin Burns and his co-author, Franklin pastor and anti-death penalty advocate Dr. Kevin Riggs.
Today! – The Best Day of My Life chronicles the life, imprisonment and faith of the 55-year-old Burns, who saw the exhaustion of his last legal options in 2023. Burns has been imprisoned since being arrested on his 23rd birthday in 1992.
That incident saw Burns caught up in a gunfight in Shelby County that killed two people — Damon Dawson and Tracey Johnson — and put three others, including Burns, in prison for murder…