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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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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Death row inmate tried to speak one final word as he was executed via lethal injection
A death row inmate tried to say one final word before being executed, after beating and suffocating a pastor to death in Texas.
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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 ...