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 ...
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Texas death row inmate executed by lethal injection gives chilling last message
Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was killed via lethal injection on Wednesday evening - the second execution in the country this ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
USA Today5d
Texas to execute Steven Nelson today for the 2011 murder of a young pastor
There are currently 178 people on death row in Texas, including Nelson, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The state has executed 582 people since 1976. Another three are ...
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Two Texas fathers are sentenced to death, but questions linger
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 ...
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Texas to execute Steven Nelson today for ambitious young pastor's murder. What to know.
How many people are on Death Row in Texas? There are currently 178 people on death row in Texas including Nelson, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The state has executed 582 ...