Austin American-Statesman13d
She married death row inmate Steven Nelson in December. In 2 weeks, Texas will execute him.
When she began writing letters to a man on Texas’ death row, Noa Dubois had no intention of finding a husband. Instead, ...
USA Today13d
Church of murdered pastor supports execution. Another clergyman says it should be stopped
Ecclesiastical lines have been drawn over the fate of Texas death row inmate Steven Nelson, with one church saying his sentence for killing its pastor is justified and another clergyman saying ...
The Texas Tribune7d
Texas legislators seek more protections for death penalty defendants in wake of Trump executive order
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 ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency5d
Texas Jew on death row granted stay of execution
Jedidiah Murphy, 48, was sentenced to death for the fatal 2000 shooting of 80-year-old Bertie Lee Cunningham in Dallas County during a carjacking. (JTA) — A stay of execution was upheld for a ...
USA Today29d
Two death row inmates reject Biden's commutation of their sentences
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 ...
France 243d
'Breaks a little part of you every day': Texas man on Death Row
Livingston (United States) (AFP) – 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 ...