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

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

The State of Texas executed a Black man convicted of killing a pastor during a robbery in 2011, despite his claims that while ...

Faced with more immediate funding needs, state officials haven’t asked for more money for rehabilitation programs, such as ...

A man wanted for touching a 7-year-old girl in Texas was previously investigated for several sexual assaults of young girls, police said.

A man convicted of killing two people in Bell County is set to be executed on Thursday, Feb. 12. Richard Lee Tabler was ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson was executed Wednesday for killing an Arlington pastor, a crime he maintained he did not commit, though ...

Texas executes Steven Nelson, convicted for a pastor's 2011 murder, amidst debates on capital punishment ethics.

Noe DeLeon will serve 30 years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and be registered as a sex offender for life after ...

Texas man Steven Nelson, convicted in 2012 of murdering a pastor the year before, was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday evening.

Amanda Hernandez, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice − the agency that carries out executions − said she did not have any information about Nelson's resistance ...