Arizona has set an execution date for a convicted killer on death row, marking the state's return to the death penalty after ...

A Madison County inmate has died as a result of an assault that happened while he was serving time behind bars.

A Huntsville man who had completed a five-year prison sentence for a 2015 murder in Morgan County had an initial court appearance Tuesday ahead of a hearing to revoke his probation because he was ...

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 ...

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 Texas inmate who strangled and suffocated a pastor inside his own church years ago revealed at the brink of his execution that he had ‘found peace’ and was ‘ready to go home.’ Steven Lawayne Nelson ...

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

Steven Lawayne Nelson was convicted of murder after suffocating a pastor in his own church during a robbery, as well as ...