For the first time in 36 years, Harris County’s longest-serving death row inmate will have a lawyer ... in Jordan’s case after representing Syed Rabbani, whose death sentence was overturned ...

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a record low.

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 wife he loved her. The ...

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

LIVINGSTON, United States — Steven Nelson has spent more than a dozen years on Death Row in Texas and is to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for the murder of a pastor that he ...

Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to capital punishment. Dr. Jeffery Singer testifies during a Criminal ...

Steven Nelson has spent more than a dozen years on Death Row in Texas and is to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for the murder of a pastor that he insists he did not commit.

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was killed via lethal injection on Wednesday evening - the second execution in the country this year.

The Texas Tribune reported last week that the population of Death Row and the number of executions carried out continues to decline. Last year, the state carried out four executions. In 2023 ...