Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

The latest death penalty news from The Texas Tribune. By Ayden Runnels Updated: Feb. 5, 2025 Steven Lawayne Nelson maintained that he unknowingly participated in the violent church robbery but ...

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a record low. Protesters unload signs and speakers outside of the Texas ...

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 ...

He was pronounced dead at 6:20pm. There are 174 people facing the death penalty in Texas right now, including some who have been waiting decades for their sentence to be carried out. The oldest ...

Bedard cited the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty’s annual Year in Review, noting that Texas’ death row continued ...

The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s efforts to bolster the federal death penalty and to encourage the 27 states ...

Steven Nelson faces execution in Texas for the murder of Pastor Clint Dobson, maintaining his innocence and highlighting his ...