Nelson, 37, was convicted of the 2011 murder of the Rev. Clint Dobson in a robbery that turned fatal inside Dobson's own ...

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...

The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s efforts to bolster the federal death penalty and to encourage the 27 states ...

"What their story shows is that redemption is possible, even in the most horrific of circumstances," Rev. Jeff Hood said of ...

A man in Texas convicted of beating ... was administered. The first execution in the U.S. this year occurred on Friday in South Carolina. Marion Bowman Jr also died by lethal injection. He was ...

His execution was the state’s first for 2025. Texas death row inmate Steve Lawayne Nelson, 37, was executed Wednesday in Huntsville. Credit: Mark Felix for The Texas Tribune Audio recording is ...

Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...

The men he blamed the death on were reportedly cleared after their alibis checked out. Texas has three other executions scheduled through the end of April. The first is scheduled for February 13 of ...

I love everyone on Death Row ... nitrogen gas executions into practice and used the method on three people last year. His execution followed a lethal injection Wednesday in Texas and another ...

There are currently 177 people on death row in Texas, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The state has executed 582 people since 1976.