Steven Nelson is on death row for murdering a pastor, but Christians are split on who gets the final say—God or the court?

Because Gretchen Sween had less than three months to save her client’s life, she couldn’t take a single day away from her desk to drive to the prison to meet him. She instead digested books’ worth of ...

The story of capital punishment through the eyes of the people whose lives have been shaped by it… In November 2000, a ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a motion which made it possible for death row inmate Robert Roberson not to be allowed to testify.

The inmate's attorneys say he shouldn’t be in the state’s prison system at all, despite admitting guilt to slaying a woman in ...

Two federal death row inmates are asking to be exempted from outgoing President Joe Biden’s order commuting their sentences ...

I likely faced execution under Trump. Biden still has time to do the right thing. Life without parole remains an egregious ...

While Nelson was on death row, other inmates urged him to join the ... a twenty-year-old member of First Baptist and student at the University of Texas at Arlington, was indeed scowling.

A judge has granted the state's motion to recuse District Court Judge Natalia Cornelio from Ron Haskell's case. Haskell ...

Just days before President-elect Donald Trump is set to take office, the Department of Justice has announced its decision to withdraw the federal government’s lethal injection protocol on the ...

Two death row inmates have rejected the clemency granted to them by Joe Biden, opting to take their chance in the courts. Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis filed emergency motions at a court in Indiana ...