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Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...
Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...
Texas's first female condemned killer received special permission to leave jail and be baptized at New Light Baptist Church ...
Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...
Two men in Texas are sentenced to death for murdering their children — for one of them, it is already too late. For the other ...
A new short documentary explores the life of death-row prisoner John Henry Ramirez before he was executed in 2022. “I Am ...
When she began writing letters to a man on Texas’ death row, Noa Dubois had no intention of finding a ... and defense ...
Death Row inmates are given one final request before they die. The Mirror takes a look at the strangest and bizarre prison ...
Steven Nelson, 37, was sentenced to death in 2012, a year after he was found guilty of fatally beating and suffocating NorthPointe Baptist Church pastor Clint Dobson.
Nelson was accused of killing 28-year-old pastor Clinton "Clint" Dobson in 2011. Nelson entered NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington and allegedly attacked Dobson and 69-year-old secretary Judy ...