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 ...

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 ...

Nelson would be the first Texas death row inmate executed since Robert Roberson's Oct. 17, 2024, execution date was delayed in what would have been the first in the U.S. tied to a diagnosis of ...

A man in Texas convicted of beating and suffocating a pastor during ... Marion Bowman Jr also died by lethal injection. He was sentenced to death after he was convicted of shooting and killing a ...

There are currently 178 people on death row in Texas, including Nelson, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The state has executed 582 people since 1976. Another three are ...

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 insists he did not commit.

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 ...