During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...

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

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

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing of Rev. Clint Dobson and put to death on Wednesday.

A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his own church is facing scheduled execution ...

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

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

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

Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...

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

I Am Ready, Warden,” nominated for an Oscar, follows John Henry Ramirez in the days before he was executed in Texas for murder. It also spotlights the sons of both Ramirez and his victim.

From the daily newsletter: an editor’s note from Daniel Zalewski. Plus: Jia Tolentino on Joan Didion on Martha Stewart; ...