Dozens of businesses busted by GBI gambling unit in north GA
Dozens of businesses in north Georgia were recently busted by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Commercial Gambling Unit.
A US Congressman, his enslaved half-brothers and the history of an Austin log farmstead
Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...
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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 ...
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Every Woman Who Leaves This Texas Prison Program Comes Out With a Job
A reentry program near Waco, Texas, has proven successful. Not only does every participant come out with a job, but their ...
Texas convict issues last message to wife before execution for killing pastor
Texas man Steven Nelson, convicted in 2012 of murdering a pastor the year before, was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday evening.
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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Steven Nelson executed in Texas despite innocence claims
Steven Nelson was executed by lethal injection in Texas on Wednesday for the 2011 murder of a pastor that he insisted he did ...
Death Row sicko who brutally murdered pastor with plastic bag utters 3 surprising final words at execution
Steven Lawayne Nelson was executed by lethal injection in the state of Texas on Wednesday for the brutal 2011 killing of the ...
Texas executes Steven Nelson for 2011 murder of Arlington pastor in year’s first execution
Nelson, 37, was put to death by lethal injection for smothering Clint Dobson, a 28-year-old pastor and husband, during a ...