During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...

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

Death Row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson was convicted of murder after suffocating a pastor in his own church during a robbery, ...

A man in Texas ... hold his breath. He was pronounced dead 24 minutes after the injection was administered. The first execution in the U.S. this year occurred on Friday in South Carolina. Marion ...

A man in Texas convicted of beating and suffocating a pastor during a church robbery was executed in Huntsville on Wednesday evening, and used his last words ... to try to hold his breath.

“I hope that today as Mr. Nelson took his last breath that he ... The men he blamed the death on were reportedly cleared after their alibis checked out. Texas has three other executions ...

A Texas man convicted of killing a pastor in his own church during a robbery, days after being released from a court-ordered anger management program, was put to death Wednesday evening.

Two Texas death row inmates in the last year were given court rulings of ... As the back and forth continued, Roberson waited in a cell adjacent to the execution chamber. At 10pm that night ...

A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his church during a robbery was put to death Wednesday evening, the second execution in the U.S. this year and the first of ...