Execution date set for Arizona inmate who says his death sentence is "long overdue"
Arizona has set an execution date for a convicted killer on death row, marking the state's return to the death penalty after ...
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A sisterhood of nuns is quietly emerging on Texas death row
Those housed in the O'Daniel Unit in Gatesville, including such names as Melissa Lucio, have had their lives touched by a ...
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San Antonio church provided spiritual comfort for first woman on death row in Texas
Texas's first female condemned killer received special permission to leave jail and be baptized at New Light Baptist Church ...
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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 ...
Texas executes man for pastor's killing during robbery at a church
Steven Lawayne Nelson was condemned for the 2011 killing of the Rev. Clint Dobson at a Baptist church in Arlington. Dobson’s ...
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Death row inmate who murdered pastor gives chilling final three words before being executed by lethal injection
Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, died by lethal injection yesterday (February 5) at the state penitentiary in Huntsville ...
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Texas man executed for killing Arlington pastor in his church: 'Let's ride, warden'
ARLINGTON, Texas - A man on death row for killing a North Texas pastor was executed Wednesday evening in Huntsville. Activists called for Governor Greg Abbott to halt the execution but were not ...
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Texas man executed by lethal injection gives chilling last three-word message
Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was killed via lethal injection on Wednesday evening - the second execution in the country this ...
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Woman whom prosecutors called ‘slut puppy’ can challenge death sentence
Andrew, the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row, has appealed her conviction for years, claiming the evidence presented against her violated her due process rights. The U.S. Court of Appeals for ...
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Church of murdered pastor supports execution. Another clergyman says it should be stopped
Ecclesiastical lines have been drawn over the fate of Texas death row inmate Steven Nelson, with one church saying his sentence for killing its pastor is justified and another clergyman saying the ...