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

Lawmakers introduced the bill after the HBO show ‘Last Week Tonight’ revealed that a CT company was the source of a drug used ...

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

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 record low.

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

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 ...

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 ...