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

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police add gangs to crackdown list, and new charter schools open with unique teaching methods. Steven Nelson has spent more than a dozen years on Death Row in Texas and is to be executed by lethal ...

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The woman behind the campaign to save death-row dog Max says she’s “devastated ... which the USPCA had worked diligently to provide a list of independent, third-party assessors.

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

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