Hood subscribes to a somewhat radical “turn the other cheek” philosophy, one in which even the worst offenders are offered ... as Christian—with the death penalty firmly in place on earth.

"What their story shows is that redemption is possible, even in the most horrific of circumstances," Rev. Jeff Hood said of ...

The five-member Death Penalty Task Force ... to reject parole for certain offenders. Several neighboring states, including Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas and Texas, employ full-time parole board ...

A death row inmate who is set to receive a lethal injection for murdering a pastor at a church will not get to choose a last ...

Texas is set to execute Steven Nelson by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 2011 murder of beloved pastor Clint Dobson, who was just beginning his ministerial career.

Trump attacked the move in his executive order on the death penalty, signed on Jan. 20, and asked the attorney general to “further evaluate whether these offenders can be charged with State ...

A man on death row for killing a North Texas pastor is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday evening in Huntsville.

Texas will put to death on Wednesday a man convicted of the brutal 2011 killing of a Dallas-area pastor in his own church ...

I have not seen much press about President Trump's order concerning the death penalty. But several provisions ... action to ensure that these offenders are imprisoned in conditions consistent ...

When she began writing letters to a man on Texas’ death row, Noa Dubois had no intention ... problems early on and was in and out of juvenile detention centers, but he continued to struggle.

Nelson, 37, was convicted of the 2011 murder of the Rev. Clint Dobson in a robbery that turned fatal inside Dobson's own ...

But the convict had already spent 25 years in an adult jail—11 years on death row-- while as per juvenile law the maximum sentence that could be awarded was 3 years in a reformatory home.