A maximum security prison in Gatesville that houses female inmates, including those on death row, has been renamed. “In recognition of former Texas Board of Criminal Justice (TBCJ) Chairman ...

Bishop Joe Vasquez of the Diocese of Austin celebrates Mass in the Mountain View Unit prison in Gatesville, Texas, which houses the state's female death row, on Dec. 1.

The Texas Board of Criminal Justice has recognized former board Chair Patrick O’Daniel by renaming a Gatesville prison, formerly the Mountain View Unit, in his honor. O’Daniel served as chair ...

Deacon Ronnie Lastovica, right, and Bishop Joe Vasquez of the Diocese of Austin celebrate Mass in the Mountain View Unit prison in Gatesville, Texas, which houses the state's female death row, on ...

Texas death row inmate Melissa Lucio was deemed “actually ... Lucio and Texas state Rep. Jeff Leach during a visit by a group oof lawmakers to the Mountain View Unit in Gatesville, Texas on ...

A Texas woman was on death row for 27 years. ... After 27 years on death row at the Patrick L. O'Daniel Unit in Gatesville, Holberg, ... formerly the Mountain View Unit (Google Maps) ...

It was a turbulent time for the row: the state had recently executed Lisa Coleman, the sixth woman to be killed in Texas after the U.S. Supreme Court’s reinstatement of the death penalty, in 1976.

Taylor Parker is set to become the seventh and youngest woman on Death Row in Texas for the murder of a New Boston mother and kidnapping of her unborn baby from her womb. Here is a look at life on ...

Bishop Joe Vasquez (center) of the Diocese of Austin celebrates Mass in the Mountain View Unit prison in Gatesville, Texas, which houses the state's female death row, on Dec. 1, 2023.

After 27 years on death row at the Patrick L. O'Daniel Unit in Gatesville, Holberg, now aged 52, learned she was no longer condemned. As their primary witness at the 1998 trial, prosecutors ...