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 Yorker21h
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 ...
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 ... waited in a cell adjacent to the execution chamber. At 10pm that night, four hours after it was scheduled to take place, the Texas State ...
Texas man executed for killing pastor during robbery at a church in 2011
Huntsville, Texas – A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his church during a robbery was ...
The Independent5d
Death row killer who murdered pastor in his own church to be executed
He would be the first Texas death row inmate executed since Robert ... and later broke a water pipe in a holding cell, flooding the courtroom with foul black water. He also regularly unshackled ...
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 ...
The Victoria Advocate9d
'Breaks a little part of you every day': Texas man on Death Row
Steven Nelson has spent more than a dozen years on Death Row in Texas and is to be executed by ... years in an 8-by-10-foot (2.5-by-3-meter) cell for 22 to 24 hours a day. As his execution date ...