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

The Tarrant County Sheriff's Office says an inmate died after an attempted suicide over the weekend. According to the sheriff ...

A judge dismissed Tarrant County and six other defendants from a civil suit over the death of an inmate at the Tarrant County ...

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 ...

Texas death row inmate Steve Nelson was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday night, closing his final words with an ...

Nelson, 37, was put to death by lethal injection for smothering Clint Dobson, a 28-year-old pastor and husband, during a ...

Steven Nelson, 37, was sentenced to death in 2012, a year after he was found guilty of fatally beating and suffocating NorthPointe Baptist Church pastor Clint Dobson.

A gunman in his 80s opened fire at the Texas Color Guard Circuit drumline competition at Pasadena Memorial High School.

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from transferring a transgender inmate to a male facility, citing legal ...

But for Cooper’s action, 2024 would have been the first year since 2016 in which no state granted clemency to any inmate on death row. In place after place, clemency boards and governors turned ...

When she began writing letters to a man on Texas’ death row, Noa Dubois had no intention of finding a husband. Instead, the now-29-year-old was searching for someone who would understand her ...