Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

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

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

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

A man was executed by lethal injection in the US state of Texas on Thursday for the 2011 ... Steven Nelson, 37, spent more than a dozen years on death row for the murder of Clint Dobson, 28 ...

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 am grateful to Connecticut for banning the death penalty, but it is deeply troubling to me that Connecticut companies are ...

After No. 12 Kansas State upset the No. 9 TCU Horned Frogs Wednesday night 59-50, the Wildcats were atop the Big 12 standings ...

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

After being caught, Ramirez was convicted of 13 counts of murder, five attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults, and 14 ...

The American soldier and teacher, who grew up in the plains of Kansas and made his way to the hills of Cavite, lived a rich ...