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

Two Texas death row inmates in the last year were given court ... and celebrities, including best-selling author John Grisham. Among those still fighting for Roberson's freedom is the very police ...

At trial, the jury heard how he had killed them amid simmering family jealousies and a desire to steal drugs and cash he believed James had at the house from selling ... Texas. Life and Death Row ...

Sentenced to death ... to selling drugs, prosecutors wrote in court papers. Castro was sentenced in 2023 to 10 years in prison for trafficking methamphetamine. Because he was held on death row ...

Instead of facing the gas chamber at San Quentin, the reputed Mexican Mafia member turned death row into a base of power ... shipped it to San Bernardino or Texas. Others ran casitas — illegal ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing of Rev. Clint Dobson and put to death on Wednesday.

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

A man in Texas convicted of beating and suffocating a pastor during ... Marion Bowman Jr also died by lethal injection. He was sentenced to death after he was convicted of shooting and killing a ...

"What their story shows is that redemption is possible, even in the most horrific of circumstances," Rev. Jeff Hood said of the couple.

The men he blamed the death on were reportedly cleared after their alibis checked out. Texas has three other executions scheduled through the end of April. The first is scheduled for February 13 of ...

A Texas man convicted of murdering an Arlington pastor was put to death on Wednesday evening. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was sentenced to death in 2012, a year after he was found guilty of fatally ...