What to know about the death penalty and death row in Texas
Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...
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Death penalty
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 ...
Executions in Alabama and Texas as Trump administration sets out death penalty agenda
The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s ...
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Fewer Texans sentenced to death, executed amid “evolving standards of decency”
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 ...
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Two Texas fathers are sentenced to death, but questions linger
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 ...