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More than three years after his execution was stayed, an upcoming hearing will address death row inmate Ramiro Ibarra’s ...
If it’s left to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who recently made an unprecedented intervention in the case, Roberson ...
The US Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the right to sue over the state's ...
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the legal right to sue over the state’s laws governing DNA ...
For the past five years, no more than 24 executions occurred annually — but 2025 is already near that mark, with more ...
The 'Doomsday mother' has been convicted in the murders of her children, her husband's former wife. She also was convicted ...
Noa Dubois, the wife of former Texas death row inmate Steven Nelson, said that Hood's guidance was instrumental in her husband's final days.
Texas Death Row inmate Moises Mendoza, 40, is set to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday, April 23, 2025. In 2005, Mendoza was convicted of capital murder of 20-year-old Rachelle O'Neil ...
If the execution moves forward, Mendoza will be the third inmate executed in Texas this year, following Richard Tabler and Steven Nelson. It will be the 13th execution in the nation.
Steven Nelson, 37, was put to death Feb. 5 for smothering Clint Dobson, a 28-year-old pastor and husband, during a botched robbery at NorthPointe Baptist Church in 2011.
Hélène Noa Dubois, (right) partner of death row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson, wipes away a tear as she speaks beside Rev. Jeff Hood during a news conference Nov. 15, 2024, in Arlington.