Instead of facing the gas chamber at San Quentin, the reputed Mexican Mafia member turned death row into a base of power ... shipped it to San Bernardino or Texas. Others ran casitas — illegal ...
"What their story shows is that redemption is possible, even in the most horrific of circumstances," Rev. Jeff Hood said of ...
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 ...
Dr. Jeffery Singer testifies during a Criminal Jurisprudence hearing concerning death row inmate Robert Roberson on Oct. 16, 2024, in Austin. An executive order signed by President Donald Trump on ...
The 2025 Academy Awards are just around the corner, and a documentary on a Texas death row prisoner is receiving recognition. Called "I Am Ready, Warden," the Oscar-nominated film deals with ...
Aaron Castro spoke with 3NEWS about the film & healing after a tragedy that changed his entire family and the lives of those ...
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 ...
The documentary, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Smriti Mundhra for MTV Documentary Films, focuses on the days leading up to Ramirez's execution as he sought forgiveness from his victim’s son.
Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to capital punishment. Dr. Jeffery Singer testifies during a Criminal ...
But for Cooper’s action, 2024 would have been the first year since 2016 in which no state granted clemency to any inmate on death row. In place after place, clemency boards and governors turned ...
Two of the 37 people on federal death row whose sentences were commuted last ... death in 2004 in the killing of a fellow prisoner in Texas, and Len Davis, a former Louisiana police officer ...