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 Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his own church is facing scheduled execution ...

Steven Nelson, 38, was sentenced to death in 2012, a year after he was found guilty of murdering Arlington pastor Clint ...

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

Texas executed Steven Nelson for the 2011 murder of the Rev. Clint Dobson Wednesday night. It is the second execution of the ...

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

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