Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

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Texas is scheduled to execute a man convicted of killing two men as part of a 2004 dispute with his boss at a strip club, and ...

Those housed in the O'Daniel Unit in Gatesville, including such names as Melissa Lucio, have had their lives touched by a ...

When Brenda Andrew was on trial for murder in 2004 in Oklahoma, a prosecutor named Fern Smith turned to the jury and held up ...

Death Row inmates are given one final request before they die. The Mirror takes a look at the strangest and bizarre prison ...

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

This is not in any way lessening due process for those who are convicted and are facing the death penalty,” said Rep. Bruce ...