What to know about the death penalty and death row in Texas
Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...
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Steven Nelson was convicted of a Texas pastor's murder. Now he's about to be executed.
Nelson, 37, was convicted of the 2011 murder of the Rev. Clint Dobson in a robbery that turned fatal inside Dobson's own ...
Executions in Alabama and Texas as Trump administration sets out death penalty agenda
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 ...
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Death row killer who murdered pastor in his own church to be executed
He would be the first Texas death row inmate executed since Robert Roberson's 17 October 2024 execution date was delayed in what would have been the first in the US tied to a diagnosis of shaken ...
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Texas legislators seek more protections for death penalty defendants in wake of Trump executive order
Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...
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Texas Jew on death row granted stay of execution
Jedidiah Murphy, 48, was sentenced to death for the fatal 2000 shooting of 80-year-old Bertie Lee Cunningham in Dallas County during a carjacking. (JTA) — A stay of execution was upheld for a ...
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Texas death row inmate’s final words before execution are revealed
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 ...