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 ...

From the daily newsletter: an editor’s note from Daniel Zalewski. Plus: Jia Tolentino on Joan Didion on Martha Stewart; ...

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

A Texas man convicted of murdering a pastor was put to death on Wednesday — and uttered ... and suffocated with a plastic bag inside NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington, according to the ...

Texas's first female condemned killer received special permission to leave jail and be baptized at New Light Baptist Church ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson was condemned for the 2011 killing of the Rev. Clint Dobson at a Baptist church in Arlington. Dobson’s ...

As of Feb. 6, 2025, there were 174 people on death row in Texas, seven of whom are women, including Melissa Lucio who was convicted in 2008 of beating to death her 2-year-old daughter. In 2022 ...

Cameron Todd Willingham had been on death ... year-old woman in 1977. After 20 years on death row, he was exonerated and released in June. Kristin Cuellar, executive director of the Texas ...

“I didn’t know what was going on on the inside,” he said, claiming his friends “blamed everything on me”. “So they’re free and I’m locked up,” he said. “I’m here on death row ...

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