In 2024, Texas executed 5 men on Death Row. All 5 were convicted of taking another person's life including one man who ...

Nelson tells “Banfield” he was merely a lookout for two accomplices during a robbery that spiraled out of control.

These were the last words of death row inmate John Henry Ramirez shortly before his execution in the Polunsky Unit of the Department of Criminal Justice in Livingston, Texas. This final statement ...

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

The documentary, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Smriti Mundhra for MTV Documentary Films, focuses on the days leading up to Ramirez's execution as he sought forgiveness from his victim’s son.

After denials on appeals, a Fort Worth-area judge last summer signed a warrant that detailed how Nelson would be put to death by lethal injection Feb. 2, 2025, at Texas State Penitentiary in ...

Quickly, the state became the United States’ top executioner and is among the top three in imposing death sentences. At the turn of the century in 2000, the population on Texas’ death row ...