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 ...

With the support of Governor Jeff Landry, Louisiana’s Attorney General, Liz Murrill, signaled the state is ready to resume executions.

From the daily newsletter: an editor’s note from Daniel Zalewski. Plus: Jia Tolentino on Joan Didion on Martha Stewart; ...

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

The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s efforts to bolster the federal death penalty and to encourage the 27 states ...

A death row inmate tried to say one final word before being executed, after beating and suffocating a pastor to death in ...

A convicted murderer and rapist was executed by nitrogen gas on Thursday — 14 years after he was transferred to Alabama while ...

Texas death row inmate’s final words before execution are revealed - Steven Lawayane Nelson was the second person executed in ...

Texas man Steven Nelson, convicted in 2012 of murdering a pastor the year before, was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday evening.

Steven Lawayne Nelson was condemned for the 2011 killing of the Rev. Clint Dobson at a Baptist church in Arlington. Dobson’s ...