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 592 people to death, according to online records. Charlie Brooks was that first in that span. He was executed on Dec. 7, 1982 for the kidnap/murder of a Fort Worth auto mechanic.
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 story of a powerful spiritual alliance.
Texas death row inmate’s final words before execution are revealed
Texas death row inmate’s final words before execution are revealed - Steven Lawayane Nelson was the second person executed in the US in 2025
Death row inmate’s chilling last words for warden before lethal injection are revealed
Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing of Rev. Clint Dobson and put to death on Wednesday.
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 year.
Death Row inmate executed last night never tucked into final meal for bizarre reason
Death Row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson was convicted of murder after suffocating a pastor in his own church during a robbery, as well as beating the church secretary
Texas Death Row Inmate's Final Words: 'I'm Ready to be at Home. Let's Ride, Warden'
Texas death row inmate Steve Nelson was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday night, closing his final words with an unusual request -- "Let's ride, Warden."
Texas man set to be executed for killing a pastor in his own church
A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his own church is facing scheduled execution ...
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‘I Am Ready, Warden’: Does the death penalty truly bring closure?
I Am Ready, Warden,” nominated for an Oscar, follows John Henry Ramirez in the days before he was executed in Texas for murder. It also spotlights the sons of both Ramirez and his victim.
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San Antonio church provided spiritual comfort for first woman on death row in Texas
Texas's first female condemned killer received special permission to leave jail and be baptized at New Light Baptist Church ...
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The Prisoner Who Planted a Church on Death Row
Every week, behind a half dozen security doors that lead to Unit 2—Tennessee’s death row—Kevin Burns holds a worship service.
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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 ...
Texas convict issues last message to wife before execution for killing pastor
Texas man Steven Nelson, convicted in 2012 of murdering a pastor the year before, was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday evening.
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Texas executes man convicted in 2011 murder of Arlington pastor
A Texas man convicted of murdering an Arlington pastor was put to death on Wednesday evening. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was sentenced to death in 2012, a year after he was found guilty of ...
Two Texas fathers are sentenced to death, but questions linger
Two men in Texas are sentenced to death for murdering their children — for one of them, it is already too late. For the other ...