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

Death Row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson was convicted of murder after suffocating a pastor in his own church during a robbery, ...

Texas lawmakers revoked death row inmates’ right to request a last meal after Lawrence Russell Brewer in 2011 ordered a massive meal and then did not eat it. Brewer ordered a pound of barbecue ...

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

Texas is set to execute Steven Nelson by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 2011 murder of beloved pastor Clint Dobson, ...

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

Demetrius Frazier became the fourth inmate in the US to be put to death by the method as he served his sentence for the 1991 ...

On February 17, 2004 he had his last meal — barbecued pork ribs ... Willingham was one of 10 Texas death row inmates executed since then who, according to the Death Penalty Information Centre ...

He was transferred to Alabama under an arrangement made in 2011 to move him to death row for Brown’s murder. Frazier chose Taco Bell burritos and Mountain Dew as his last meal. Following his ...

A man in Texas convicted of beating and suffocating a pastor during a church robbery was executed in Huntsville on Wednesday evening, and used his last words to tell his ... He was sentenced to death ...