Pennsylvania governor tags an older prison and a boot camp for closure
Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration says it's recommending the closure of Rockview state prison and the Quehanna boot camp ...
Top Judge Favors a Second Chance for Those Languishing in Prison
Rowan Wilson, the chief judge of New York State’s highest court, used his State of the Judiciary address to push back against ...
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Death row inmate ordered popular takeaway for his final meal before controversial execution
Demetrius Terrence Frazier's final meal was a popular takeaway choice, after spending three decades in prison.
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The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’s Death Row
Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...
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Two Texas fathers are sentenced to death, but questions linger
Two Texas death row inmates in the last year were given court rulings of "actual innocence". Melissa Lucio, 56, convicted of murdering her two-year-old daughter in 2008, is still waiting for a judge ...
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DR Congo's death penalty plan for gang youth sparks division
These death sentences come after the Congolese government lifted a moratorium on executions in March last year ... Although the death row inmates have been transferred from Kinshasa to the ...
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Death Row inmate executed last night never tucked into final meal for bizarre reason
Death Row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson was convicted of murder after suffocating a pastor in his own church during a robbery, ...
Texas executes Steven Nelson for 2011 murder of Arlington pastor in year’s first execution
Nelson, 37, was put to death by lethal injection for smothering Clint Dobson, a 28-year-old pastor and husband, during a ...
Steven Nelson Final Words Before Texas Execution
Nelson was accused of killing 28-year-old pastor Clinton "Clint" Dobson in 2011. Nelson entered NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington and allegedly attacked Dobson and 69-year-old secretary Judy ...
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Oklahoma board denies clemency for man on death row, clears path for March execution
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma board rejected clemency on Wednesday for a man sentenced to die for fatally shooting a woman ...
As execution nears, man convicted in Arlington pastor’s death asks for mercy
Steven Nelson is scheduled to be executed Wednesday, more than a decade after he was convicted of smothering a 28-year-old ...
'I'm not a lost cause': Steven Nelson, set to be executed by Texas, makes final arguments
Nelson, 37, was convicted of the 2011 murder of the Rev. Clint Dobson in a robbery that turned fatal inside Dobson's own ...