Richard Tabler called officials to brag about killing four people in Killeen in 2004. He was convicted for two of the deaths.

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

Texas is scheduled to execute a man convicted of killing two men as part of a 2004 dispute with his boss at a strip club, and ...

Tabler is set to be executed at 7 p.m. ET, one hour after the 6 p.m. execution of James Dennis Ford in Florida. They're set ...

Those housed in the O’Daniel Unit in Gatesville, including such names as Melissa Lucio, have had their lives touched by a particular Catholic order.

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 ...

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

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

Steven Nelson, who is set to be executed today after being sentenced to death for his role in the murder of pastor Clint ...

A Texas man convicted of murdering an Arlington pastor was put to death on Wednesday evening. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was sentenced to death in 2012, a year after he was found guilty of fatally ...