For the first time in 36 years, Harris County’s longest-serving death row inmate will have a lawyer ... in Jordan’s case after representing Syed Rabbani, whose death sentence was overturned ...

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a record low.

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing of Rev. Clint Dobson and put to death on Wednesday.

Death Row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson was convicted of murder after suffocating a pastor in his own church during a robbery, ...

When she began writing letters to a man on Texas’ death row, Noa Dubois had no intention of finding a husband. Instead, the ...

LIVINGSTON, United States — Steven Nelson has spent more than a dozen years on Death Row in Texas and is to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for the murder of a pastor that he ...

Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to capital punishment. Dr. Jeffery Singer testifies during a Criminal ...

Steven Nelson has spent more than a dozen years on Death Row in Texas and is to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for the murder of a pastor that he insists he did not commit.

Two of the 37 people on federal death row whose sentences were commuted last ... death in 2004 in the killing of a fellow prisoner in Texas, and Len Davis, a former Louisiana police officer ...

NZ calls out "fake news" on Israel visa claims, police add gangs to crackdown list, and new charter schools open with unique teaching methods. Steven Nelson has spent more than a dozen years on ...