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 ...
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North Carolina Judge Rules Racial Bias Played a Role in Conviction of Black Man Who Spent 15 Years on Death Row
Judge ruled prosecutors unlawfully dismissed Black jurors in Hasson Bacote's death penalty case and used racist language like ...
The New Yorker3d
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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Commentary: America’s death penalty is dying one generation at a time
The Death Penalty Information Center’s recent annual report contained good news for those opposed to capital punishment. The ...
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Louisiana executions to resume, Gov. Jeff Landry announces
Governor Landry announced that the La. Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections has finalized and implemented an updated ...
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Phil Cherney: a life dedicated to family, justice across Valley, God
He sought justice from injustice. He sought life for those on Death Row. He urged others to, “do unto others as you would ...
The Mirror7d
Death Row sicko who brutally murdered pastor with plastic bag utters 3 surprising final words at execution
A Death Row killer who brutally murdered a pastor with a plastic bag in his church uttered three chilling final words to the warden as he was executed. Steven Lawayne Nelson, a Texas death row ...
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Death row killer who shot friend found dead in car boot to be executed - but maintains he’s innocent
Start your Independent Premium subscription today. A death row killer who shot his friend before her bullet-ridden body was found in a scorched car is set to be executed on Friday. In May 2002 ...
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What to know about the death penalty and death row in Texas
As of Feb. 6, 2025, there were 174 people on death row in Texas, seven of whom are women, including Melissa Lucio who was convicted in 2008 of beating to death her 2-year-old daughter. In 2022 ...
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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 ...