As execution nears, man convicted in Arlington pastor’s death asks for mercy
Steven Nelson is scheduled to be executed Wednesday, more than a decade after he was convicted of smothering a 28-year-old ...
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'Breaks a little part of you every day': Texas man on Death Row
Steven Nelson has spent more than a dozen years on Death Row in Texas and is to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday ...
Abbott priorities: Property tax reform, school choice, death penalty for child killers
At his state of the state address Sunday in Austin, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott laid out his legislative priorities. They range ...
Six pints, a single olive and a lump of dirt: Chilling final meal requests of death row inmates
A list of bizarre last meal requests from people on death row has gone viral. A post on the @depthsofwikipedia Instagram page ...
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Study Reports Declining Use of Death Penalty in Texas
Bedard cited the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty’s annual Year in Review, noting that Texas’ death row continued to decrease in size in 2024, reflecting prosecutors’ growing hesitation to ...