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 ...

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

Texas death row inmate’s final words before execution are revealed - Steven Lawayane Nelson was the second person executed in ...

A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his own church is facing scheduled execution ...

Texas's first female condemned killer received special permission to leave jail and be baptized at New Light Baptist Church ...

I Am Ready, Warden,” nominated for an Oscar, follows John Henry Ramirez in the days before he was executed in Texas for murder. It also spotlights the sons of both Ramirez and his victim.

Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...

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

A man in Texas convicted of beating and suffocating a pastor during ... Marion Bowman Jr also died by lethal injection. He was sentenced to death after he was convicted of shooting and killing a ...