Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

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Texas's first female condemned killer received special permission to leave jail and be baptized at New Light Baptist Church ...

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 ...

A Texas man convicted of murdering a pastor was put to death on Wednesday — and uttered chilling last words prior to being executed. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing ...

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 ...

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 of ...

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 ...