Once filled with rage, Texas death row inmate set to be executed is now 'a gentle human'
During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...
What to know about the death penalty and death row in Texas
Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...
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Texas death row inmate executed by lethal injection gives chilling last message
Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was killed via lethal injection on Wednesday evening - the second execution in the country this ...
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The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’s Death Row
Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...
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Texas legislators seek more protections for death penalty defendants in wake of Trump executive order
Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...
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Steven Nelson was convicted of a Texas pastor's murder. Now he's about to be executed.
Nelson, 37, was convicted of the 2011 murder of the Rev. Clint Dobson in a robbery that turned fatal inside Dobson's own ...
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Texas to execute Steven Nelson today for ambitious young pastor's murder. What to know.
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 ...
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Texas to execute Steven Nelson today for the 2011 murder of a young pastor
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 ...