Once a month, Pastor Dana Moore gets into his car and drives 300 miles across Texas to Livingston, where he walks into a state prison, takes off his belt and shoes and is ushered through a metal ...
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — $1.25. That's how much money authorities said John Henry Ramirez got away with when he stabbed store clerk Pablo Castro 29 times during a robbery in 2004, killing him. Ramirez ...
Texas has executed John Henry Ramirez, whose spiritual adviser was allowed to pray aloud and “lay hands” on him as he died after a US Supreme Court ruling led to new guidelines in his case and in ...
As the lethal drug coursed through John Henry Ramirez’s veins Wednesday night, Pastor Dana Moore laid his hands on the Texas death row inmate’s chest. A prayer rang out as Ramirez was executed in ...
The Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville in 2020. (Mark Felix For The Texas Tribune, Mark Felix For The Texas Tribune) A 38-year-old man who won his legal fight to have his pastor beside him during ...