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 ...

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

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 ...

Two men in Texas are sentenced to death for murdering their children — for one of them, it is already too late. For the other ...

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 ...

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

Alabama executed Demetrius Frazier for the 1991 murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown two days before Thanksgiving.

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

A man convicted of killing two people in Bell County is set to be executed on Thursday, Feb. 12. Richard Lee Tabler was ...