Marion Bowman Jr., a 44-year-old inmate, is scheduled to be executed Friday night, marking the first execution in South ...

Bedard cited the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty’s annual Year in Review, noting that Texas’ death row continued to decrease in size in 2024, reflecting prosecutors’ growing hesitation to ...

Steven Nelson, sentenced to die Wednesday for the 2011 murder of a pastor, tells his side of the story in a recorded interview for “Banfield.” He claims he was merely a lookout for a robbery that ...

Nelson tells “Banfield” he was merely a lookout for two accomplices during a robbery that spiraled out of control.

A new short documentary explores the life of death-row prisoner John Henry Ramirez before he was executed in 2022. “I Am ...

This new script is exemplified by stories of death row inmates who have been freed by revelations of injustice and of others who were executed despite strong cases for exoneration.

Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...

“People don’t expect these guys to have friends, family, people that care about them,” Jeff Hood said, talking about Steven ...

Former U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 people on federal death row to life imprisonment. A ...

The Texas Tribune reported last week that the population of Death Row and the number of executions carried out continues to ...

Texas inmate Cesar Hernandez details the execution day for Ramiro Gonzales in an essay for the Prison Journalism Project.

Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 murder of the Rev. Clint Dobson at NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington, just west ...