In most states, inmates on death row get to pick whatever they want—within reason— for their last meal, but in Texas ... Robert Anthony Buell from Ohio was executed in 2002 by lethal injection ...

Big games by former Oscar Smith, Lake Taylor, Warhill and Catholic standouts mark the night in college basketball.

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 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 ...

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

A remarkable alliance between an order of Catholic nuns and the women on Texas's death row. 2 hour 28 min listen For the best audio experience, scan the code with your phone to download the New ...

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

At the turn of the century in 2000, the population on Texas’ death row reached a record high of 459 inmates and officials carried out 40 executions, the most in a single year. Decades later ...

LIVINGSTON, United States — Steven Nelson has spent more than a dozen years on Death Row in Texas and is to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for the murder of a pastor that he ...

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 ...