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Noe DeLeon will serve 30 years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and be registered as a sex offender for life after ...

Texas executes Steven Nelson, convicted for a pastor's 2011 murder, amidst debates on capital punishment ethics.

Death row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was executed via lethal injection on Wednesday (5 February) having been refused a ...

Clarence Jordan has been a death row inmate for 47 years, yet his execution was never carried out. Jordan, now 68, was convicted of the 1977 murder and robbery of Houston grocery store worker, Joe ...

DeAndre Shermail Wright pleaded guilty to killing his girlfriend, Jasmine Muldoon, and then hiding her body in the woods near their home.

Texas man Steven Nelson, convicted in 2012 of murdering a pastor the year before, was put to death by lethal injection ...

Texas executed Steven Lawayne Nelson for the murder of Pastor Clint Dobson, with AG Ken Paxton stating that justice was ...

There is no doubt that Richard Tabler shot and killed four people within two days in Killeen, Texas. But is he ultimately ...

A man in Texas convicted of beating and suffocating a pastor during a church robbery was executed in Huntsville on Wednesday ...