Documentary on Texas death row inmate nominated for Academy Award, son speaks on father's memory
Aaron Castro spoke with 3NEWS about the film & healing after a tragedy that changed his entire family and the lives of those ...
She married death row inmate Steven Nelson in December. In 2 weeks, Texas will execute him.
"What their story shows is that redemption is possible, even in the most horrific of circumstances," Rev. Jeff Hood said of ...
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Not a ‘monster’: Texas death row inmate gives last interview
Nelson tells “Banfield” he was merely a lookout for two accomplices during a robbery that spiraled out of control.
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Texas legislators seek more protections for death penalty defendants in wake of Trump executive order
Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...
LA Times Today: Oscar-nominated short documentary explores Texas death penalty case
A new short documentary explores the life of death-row prisoner John Henry Ramirez before he was executed in 2022. “I Am ...
DNA sample ties elderly man to 40-year-old cold case murder of Texas woman
Police believe an 83-year-old man is responsible for the murder of an elderly woman in Dallas in 1981 after his DNA is a ...
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Fewer Texans sentenced to death, executed amid 'evolving standards of decency'
At the turn of the century in 2000, the population on Texas’ death row reached a record high of 459 inmates and officials carried out 40 executions, the most in a single year. Decades later ...
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Inmate Describes How Execution Days Change Prison
Cesar Hernandez, an inmate at the Huntsville Unit in Texas, got candid about execution day prison in an essay for the Prison Journalism Project. As of January 1, 2025, there were 2,092 inmates on ...
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Fewer Texans sentenced to death, executed amid “evolving standards of decency”
At the turn of the century in 2000, the population on Texas’ death row reached a record high of 459 inmates and officials carried out 40 executions, the most in a single year. Decades later ...