Texas Standard13h
A sisterhood of nuns is quietly emerging on Texas death row
Those housed in the O'Daniel Unit in Gatesville, including such names as Melissa Lucio, have had their lives touched by a ...
Once filled with rage, Texas death row inmate set to be executed is now 'a gentle human'
During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...
Mother pleads to death of child in fatal accident
A Lee County mother has pleaded guilty to manslaughter for death of her 2-year-old son, who was not secured in a car seat when he fell out of a car and was run over on a busy Tupelo street. Nasheauna ...
The New Yorker2d
The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’s Death Row
Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...
Nature6d
Fas triggers an alternative, caspase-8–independent cell death pathway using the kinase RIP as effector molecule
Cell death is achieved by two fundamentally different mechanisms: apoptosis and necrosis. Apoptosis is dependent on caspase activation, whereas the caspase-independent necrotic signaling pathway ...
The Salvadoran mega-prison offering to take America’s worst criminals
No visits from wives, girlfriends or children. Sleeping arrangements are stainless-steel cots stacked several layers high in large cells packed with dozens of inmates. And roommates include some of ...
Inside El Salvador’s mega-prison where president has offered to hold ‘dangerous’ US citizens and criminal migrants
El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center has been hailed as the nation’s solution to rampant gang violence, but ...
The Washington Post17d
Woman whom prosecutors called ‘slut puppy’ can challenge death sentence
Andrew, the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row, has appealed her conviction for years, claiming the evidence presented against her violated her due process rights. The U.S. Court of Appeals for ...
Miami Herald21d
Trump suggests state death penalty for those commuted by Biden. Is that possible?
Could death row inmates commuted by Biden be sentenced to death at the state level? Legal experts weigh in as Trump reinstates the federal death penalty. Getty Images/iStockphoto Among the slew of ...
Voice of America21d
VOA Persian: Reports conflict on death sentence of civil activist in Iran
addressing what it referred to as "varying interpretations in the media" regarding the death sentence of the civil activist and social worker. ISNA stated that "no change has been made to the ...
Oklahoma's News22d
Only woman on Oklahoma’s death row may get a new trial
She was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the Nov. 2001 and was sentenced to death. The 29-page Supreme Court ruling details how Rob Andrew was fatally shot in ...
The Texas Tribune22d
Fewer Texans sentenced to death, executed amid “evolving standards of decency”
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 ...