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

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

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

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

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

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

Nelson, 37, was convicted of the 2011 murder of the Rev. Clint Dobson in a robbery that turned fatal inside Dobson's own ...

How many people are on Death Row in Texas? There are currently 178 people on death row in Texas including Nelson, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The state has executed 582 ...

Cameron Todd Willingham had been on death row for 12 years when he said his final words, strapped to a Texas lethal injection table. "The only statement I want to make is that I am an innocent man ...

There are currently 178 people on death row in Texas, including Nelson, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The state has executed 582 people since 1976. Another three are ...