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A film being shown Wednesday at the Mayborn tells the story of an overlooked Black cultural and artistic moment at the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition that has shaped history.

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

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

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

Frazier in his final words criticized Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for not returning him to serve out a previous life ...

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

Met Gala guests, suit up! The Met Gala revealed the dress code for its annual lavish celebration of fashion in May.

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A new short documentary explores the life of death-row prisoner John Henry Ramirez before he was executed in 2022. “I Am ...

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

There’s a new docuseries about Sean “Diddy” Combs hitting the airwaves — this time, it’s a four-part docuseries on Investigation Discovery called The Fall of Diddy, presented by the same company that ...