Those housed in the O'Daniel Unit in Gatesville, including such names as Melissa Lucio, have had their lives touched by a ...

During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...

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

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

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

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 ...

He would be the first Texas death row inmate executed since Robert Roberson's 17 October 2024 execution date was delayed in what would have been the first in the US tied to a diagnosis of shaken ...

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 ...

Steven Nelson has spent more than a dozen years on Death Row in Texas and is to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for the murder of a pastor that he insists he did not commit.

There are currently 178 people on death row in Texas, including Nelson, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The state has executed 582 people since 1976. Another three are ...

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 ...