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

A Texas man convicted of murdering an Arlington pastor was put to death on Wednesday evening ... and Elliott was in critical condition. In his last statement, Nelson said: "I will always love ...

Some U.S. lawmakers and officials are touting a nearly half-century-old treaty between the United States and Panama to ...

The infamous Cecil Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles has backdropped murderers, suicides and other horrors for 100 years. One man ...

For decades, conservationists have pushed for changes to U.S. 64, a busy two-lane highway to the popular Outer Banks that runs straight through the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge — one of ...

Texas is scheduled to execute a man convicted of killing two men as part of a 2004 dispute with his boss at a strip club, and ...

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

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi is seeking to reverse the last-hour commutations for death row murderers last month by former President Joe Biden, directing state officials to pursue the death ...

Steven Nelson has spent more than a dozen years on Death Row in Texas and is to be executed by ... chamber with him "to pray over me and give me last rites." "That'll be the first human contact ...

A Texas man convicted of murdering a pastor was put to death on Wednesday — and uttered chilling last words prior to being executed. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing ...

Before 1923, counties carried out death sentences. Charles Reynolds was the first person in Texas to die in the electric chair on Feb. 8, 1924. Joseph Johnson was the last person put to death by ...

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 tell his ... He was sentenced to death ...