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Every week, behind a half dozen security doors that lead to Unit 2—Tennessee’s death row—Kevin Burns holds a worship service. He leads Communion, prayer, liturgy, and a sermon with men who share his ...

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

Find out more about the events leading up to the shooting death of Texas mother Farah Fratta, according to Oxygen's Prosecuting Evil with Kelly Siegler.

A death row inmate tried to say one final word before being executed, after beating and suffocating a pastor to death in ...

A US man convicted of murdering a pastor was put to death this — and uttered some unexpected last words prior to being ...

Texas man Steven Nelson, convicted in 2012 of murdering a pastor the year before, was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday evening.

Steven Lawayne Nelson was condemned for the 2011 killing of the Rev. Clint Dobson at a Baptist church in Arlington. Dobson’s ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing of Rev. Clint Dobson and put to death on Wednesday.

Steven Lawayne Nelson was convicted of murder after suffocating a pastor in his own church during a robbery, as well as ...