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 ...

Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...

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

Steven Nelson, convicted in the killing of an Arlington priest in 2011, is set to be executed on Tuesday. If you cross paths ...

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 ...

“I’m angry because here are people who are proclaiming a faith ... While Nelson was on death row, other inmates urged him to join the prison’s Faith-Based Program, an evangelical-leaning ...

When she began writing letters to a man on Texas’ death row, Noa Dubois had no intention of finding a ... “I had friends who were listening to me and understanding me, but I needed people who were ...

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 ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was killed via lethal injection on Wednesday evening - the second execution in the country this ...

Steven Nelson has spent more than a dozen years on Death Row in Texas and is to be executed ... Alaska, with all 10 people aboard believed to be dead. Video / Getty, US Coast Guard ...