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

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry says the state is ready to execute death row inmates again. Landry says the Department of ...

A Texas man convicted of murdering a pastor was put to death on Wednesday — and uttered ... Nelson was indicted in the killing of another inmate — a charge for which he was never tried.

Steven Lawayne Nelson was to be put to death Wednesday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the 2011 killing ...

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 ...

The men he blamed the death on were reportedly cleared after their alibis checked out. Texas has three other executions scheduled through the end of April. The first is scheduled for February 13 of ...

A Texas man convicted of killing a pastor in his own church during a robbery, days after being released from a court-ordered anger management program, was put to death Wednesday evening.

The men he blamed the death on were reportedly cleared after their alibis checked out. Texas has three other executions scheduled through the end of April. The first is scheduled for February 13 ...

Nelson's execution approaches on the heels of a blizzard of media attention and political advocacy on behalf of another Texas ...