A federal judge dismissed the claims against Tarrant County and six of the named jailers, but nine defendants remain.

The facility, located at 1995 E. FM 1564 near Greenville, has been closed and its license revoked, officials say.

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

Thompson Residential Treatment Center, located southeast of Greenville, has been closed and its license revoked, state ...

A judge dismissed Tarrant County and six other defendants from a civil suit over the death of an inmate at the Tarrant County ...

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

The National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO), which has consistently opposed the death penalty, maintains its stance. Speaking to La Croix International, Monsignor Donatien Nshole ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson was handed the death penalty for killing of the 28-year-old during a robbery gone wrong - having ...

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

ARLINGTON, Texas - A man on death row for killing a North Texas pastor was executed Wednesday evening in Huntsville. Activists called for Governor Greg Abbott to halt the execution but were not ...

The pastor's young widow, Laura Dobson, sobbed on the stand during Steven Nelson's murder trial, saying: 'I didn't know this ...

Texas is set to execute Steven Nelson by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 2011 murder of beloved pastor Clint Dobson, ...