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A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on Thursday, 20 years after he killed his strip club manager and another man.
Texas death row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson poses for a photo in a visiting cage at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit outside Livingston, Texas, on Dec. 5, 2012.
Seven Texas inmates currently on federal death row were among the 37 inmates that had their sentences commuted to life in prison by President Joe Biden on Monday.
The film features interviews with members of The Texas 7 currently on Death Row and eyewitnesses to their crimes. The film was aired in late September 2008 on MSNBC. On March 25, 2011, Investigation Discovery aired an episode about the case on the show FBI: Criminal Pursuit , subtitled "The Deadly Seven".
A father and son in Texas have been charged in the killings of an 18-year-old pregnant woman who disappeared before Christmas and her boyfriend, who authorities say were fatally shot in the head ...
Garrett was tried and convicted of the crime. [3] He was held at Ellis Unit, north of Huntsville, Texas, which at the time held men on the State of Texas's death row. [4] He was originally scheduled to be executed on January 6, 1992, but after Pope John Paul II asked for clemency, Governor of Texas Ann Richards gave him a temporary reprieve.
The number is over four times as many as Oklahoma [4] (the state with the second-highest total of executions in the post-Gregg era and the only one with a higher execution rate) and over 37 times as many as California (the state with the largest number of death row inmates; [5] California has not executed anyone since January 2006, and has a ...
With his execution looming last Thursday, the 57-year-old Texas death row inmate watched as his attorneys’ legal arguments were rejected in the courts and his pleas for clemency disregarded, as ...