The New Yorker21h
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 ...
Death row inmate’s chilling last words for warden before lethal injection revealed
A Texas man convicted of murdering a pastor was put to death on Wednesday — and uttered chilling last words prior to being ...
The New Yorker8h
The Ladies on Death Row
From the daily newsletter: an editor’s note from Daniel Zalewski. Plus: Jia Tolentino on Joan Didion on Martha Stewart; ...
Daily Express US on MSN5d
Texas death row inmate executed by lethal injection gives chilling last message
Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was killed via lethal injection on Wednesday evening - the second execution in the country this ...
The Independent4d
Texas death row inmate’s final words before execution are revealed
The men he blamed the death on were reportedly cleared after their alibis checked out. Texas has three other executions scheduled through the end of April. The first is scheduled for February 13 ...
Why death row inmate was refused final meal before being executed in front of wife who held up dog to watch
Death row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was executed via lethal injection on Wednesday (5 February) having been refused a ...
Death row inmate's chilling last words as wife held up dog to watch before execution
Steven Lawayne Nelson was executed via lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, for the 2011 murder of Reverand Clint Dobson ...
Texas man set to be executed for killing a pastor in his own church
A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his own church is facing scheduled execution ...
The Independent5d
Death row killer who murdered pastor in his own church to be executed
He would be the first Texas death row inmate executed since Robert Roberson's 17 October 2024 execution date was delayed in what would have been the first in the US tied to a diagnosis of shaken ...
The Texas Tribune on MSN11d
Texas legislators seek more protections for death penalty defendants in wake of Trump executive order
Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...
Steven Nelson Final Words Before Texas Execution
Nelson was accused of killing 28-year-old pastor Clinton "Clint" Dobson in 2011. Nelson entered NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington and allegedly attacked Dobson and 69-year-old secretary Judy ...