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

Texas's first female condemned killer received special permission to leave jail and be baptized at New Light Baptist Church ...

Every week, behind a half dozen security doors that lead to Unit 2—Tennessee’s death row—Kevin Burns holds a worship service. He leads Communion, prayer, liturgy, and a sermon with men who share his ...

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 ...

First Baptist Arlington’s senior pastor said his role was to support families affected by the murder of one of the church's ...

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

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