What to know about the death penalty and death row in Texas
Earlier this month, Texas executed Steven Nelson for smothering an Arlington pastor in 2011. Here’s what to know about ...
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'He fought to the very end': Steven Nelson executed in Texas for murder of young pastor
Texas is scheduled to execute another man on Feb. 13, the same day as another execution in Florida. Texas executed Steven Nelson by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 2011 murder of a beloved ...
The New Yorker12d
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 ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation14d
Two Texas fathers are sentenced to death, but questions linger
Robert Roberson has been on death row for the murder of his two-year-old daughter. In January 2002, Roberson rushed his daughter, Nikki Curtis, to an emergency room in the Texas town of Palestine.
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Alabama death row inmate Demetrius Frazier’s final words revealed as he’s executed for 1991 murder
With a vote of 10-2, it was recommended he receive a death sentence. He was transferred to Alabama under an arrangement made in 2011 to move him to death row for Brown’s murder. Frazier chose ...
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Texas executes man for pastor's killing during robbery at a church
He was pronounced dead 24 minutes later.Nelson was the first Texas death row inmate executed since Robert ... Jr. received a lethal injection for his murder conviction in the shooting death ...