Steven Nelson is scheduled to be executed Wednesday, more than a decade after he was convicted of smothering a 28-year-old ...

Steven Nelson has spent more than a dozen years on Death Row in Texas and is to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday ...

At his state of the state address Sunday in Austin, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott laid out his legislative priorities. They range ...

A list of bizarre last meal requests from people on death row has gone viral. A post on the @depthsofwikipedia Instagram page ...

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 ...

Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 murder of the Rev. Clint Dobson at NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington, just west of Dallas.

A row has broken out over a proposal to give two former Liverpool city councillors - including a previous Lord Mayor - civic honours after they left their roles following criticism and controversy.

Two federal death row inmates are asking to be exempted from outgoing President Joe Biden’s order commuting their sentences to life in prison without parole, as they seek to appeal their cases ...

By Associated Press Jan. 18, 2025 Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ... court ruled that legislators can’t use subpoenas to block death row inmates’ executions, but suggested there’s still ...

On December 30, two men filed handwritten, emergency petitions from the death row unit in USP Terre Haute ... serious doubt that it has any power to block a commutation.… Still, given the ...

Forensics officers have been seen coming out of the block with protective suits on ... “An investigation into the circumstances of his death is underway, and the matter is currently being ...