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

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

Gov. Jeff Landry announced Monday that the state had developed a protocol for executing people with nitrogen gas, allowing it ...

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

James Williams, an ER doctor in Texas, occupies what for him is an uncomfortable place in the conversation about the death ...

The execution Steven Nelson for the 2011 murder of Rev. Clint Dobson is tonight. His wife and a death penalty activist will be witnesses.

Nelson, 37, was convicted of the 2011 murder of the Rev. Clint Dobson in a robbery that turned fatal inside Dobson's own ...

“It’s hard at times,” the 37-year-old Nelson said in an interview at the maximum-security prison ... As his execution date approaches, he is now under constant video surveillance. Death Row inmates ...

Steven Nelson has spent more than a dozen years on Death Row in Texas and is to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday ...

When Chiaki Kasai set out to make a documentary about Iwao Hakamada, a Japanese man who was acquitted in a retrial of a 1966 ...

Nelson tells “Banfield” he was merely a lookout for two accomplices during a robbery that spiraled out of control.