Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...
The State of Texas executed a Black man convicted of killing a pastor during a robbery in 2011, despite his claims that while ...
A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his own church is facing scheduled execution ...
Steven Nelson, 38, was sentenced to death in 2012, a year after he was found guilty of murdering Arlington pastor Clint ...
Faced with more immediate funding needs, state officials haven’t asked for more money for rehabilitation programs, such as ...
Steven Lawayne Nelson maintained that he unknowingly participated in the violent church robbery but didn’t harm anyone. His ...
Texas executes Steven Nelson, convicted for a pastor's 2011 murder, amidst debates on capital punishment ethics.
Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...
An execution date has been set for the man convicted of killing an elderly Garland convenience store clerk by setting her on fire more than a decade ago. Matthew Lee Johnson, 49, is scheduled to be ...
The Department of Criminal Justice announced it's expanding a program that lets incarcerated people appear in court virtually, without leaving prison.