Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...
Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...
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 ...
Two men in Texas are sentenced to death for murdering their children — for one of them, it is already too late. For the other ...
Nelson would be the first Texas death row inmate executed since Robert Roberson's Oct. 17, 2024, execution date was delayed in what would have been the first in the U.S. tied to a diagnosis of ...
Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...
He was pronounced dead 24 minutes later. Nelson was the first Texas death row inmate executed since Robert Roberson’s Oct. 17, 2024, execution date was delayed in what would have been the first ...
FILE – Texas death row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson poses for a photo in a visiting cage at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit outside Livingston, Texas, on Dec. 5, 2012. (AP ...