Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...
(Chitose Suzuki / Staff Photographer) For many years, this page has been raising concerns about flaws in Texas’ death penalty system, and the risk that we as citizens of this great state have of ...
The latest death penalty news from The Texas Tribune. By Ayden Runnels Jan. 30, 2025 Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to ...
Steven Nelson faces execution in Texas for the murder of Pastor Clint Dobson, maintaining his innocence and highlighting his ...
But Lucio’s ordeal is far from over. The trial judge’s decision must be reviewed by the notoriously pro-death-penalty Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. One day after the Lucio judgment was ...
Texas is set to execute Steven Nelson by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 2011 murder of beloved pastor Clint Dobson, who was just beginning his ministerial career.
Bedard cited the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty’s annual Year in Review, noting that Texas’ death row continued ...
"What their story shows is that redemption is possible, even in the most horrific of circumstances," Rev. Jeff Hood said of ...
Texas has used the drug since 2012, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Dobson, who was just 28 years old, was beaten and suffocated. Church secretary Judy Elliot, 69, was severely ...