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 ...

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

Cameron Todd Willingham had been on death ... year-old woman in 1977. After 20 years on death row, he was exonerated and released in June. Kristin Cuellar, executive director of the Texas ...

A man was executed by lethal injection in the US state of Texas on Thursday for the 2011 ... Steven Nelson, 37, spent more than a dozen years on death row for the murder of Clint Dobson, 28 ...

A 17-year-old and her 18-year-old boyfriend were arrested in Texas on Sunday after a grandmother was found dead.

A Death Row sicko who was convicted of raping and murdering a woman in her home has become the fourth person to be executed using the contentious nitrogen gas method. Despite pleas from his mother ...

An Oklahoma board has rejected clemency for a man sentenced to die for fatally shooting a woman ... death sentence. Stitt has granted clemency only once in his six years in office, in 2021, to ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — An Oklahoma board rejected clemency on Wednesday for a man sentenced to die for fatally shooting a woman during a ... in 2021, to death row inmate Julius Jones, commuting his ...

A Texas man convicted of murdering a pastor was put to death on Wednesday — and uttered chilling last words prior to being executed. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing ...

A sick Death Row killer who raped and murdered a woman in her home has become just the fourth to be executed using the controversial nitrogen gas method tonight. Despite his mother's pleas ...