What to know about the death penalty and death row in Texas
Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...
The New Yorker22h
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 ...
KSAT12h
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 ...
The Independent4d
Texas death row inmate’s final words before execution are revealed
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 ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation2d
Two Texas fathers are sentenced to death, but questions linger
Cameron Todd Willingham had been on death row for 12 years when he said his final words, strapped to a Texas lethal injection table. "The only statement I want to make is that I am an innocent man ...
Executions in Alabama and Texas as Trump administration sets out death penalty agenda
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 ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency10d
Texas Jew on death row granted stay of execution
(JTA) — A stay of execution was upheld for a Jew on death row in Texas, one day before he was ... a federal court denied a request to block Murphy’s execution. In that filing, his attorneys ...
Yahoo News4d
Texas death row inmate’s final words before execution are revealed
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 ...