Steven Nelson, sentenced to die Wednesday for the 2011 murder of a pastor, tells his side of the story in a recorded interview for “Banfield.” He claims he was merely a lookout for a robbery that ...

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

Texas inmate Cesar Hernandez details the execution day for Ramiro Gonzales in an essay for the Prison Journalism Project.

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

Ironically, as this country gets closer to abolishing death as a punishment, that progress does not bode well for the inmates ...

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 ...

Two federal death row inmates are asking to be ... for the 2001 killing of Luther Plant, another inmate at the U.S. penitentiary in Beaumont, Texas. At the time, Shannon Agofsky was serving ...

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