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

The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s efforts to bolster the federal death penalty and to encourage the 27 states ...

While the order would make it easier to obtain more capital punishment verdicts, the directive clashes with a current trend in Texas, the leading state in executions by far, in which use of the death ...

“We're saying that love is not enough, redemption is not enough, hope is not enough” when we support the death penalty, he ...

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 ...

Jeffery Singer testifies during a Criminal Jurisprudence hearing concerning death row inmate Robert Roberson ... Credit: Sergio Flores for The Texas Tribune ...

Texas has used the drug since 2012, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Dobson, who was just 28 years old, was beaten and suffocated. Church secretary Judy Elliot, 69, was severely ...

A Texas man convicted of murdering an Arlington ... Prosecutors asked for the death penalty. Jurors had the option of sentencing Nelson to life in prison without parole, but ultimately gave ...

“We're saying that love is not enough, redemption is not enough, hope is not enough” when we support the death penalty, he said. Is Texas in a 'reckoning' over the death penalty? Nelson's ...