The 58-year-old Southern Baptist pastor became the spiritual advisor to John Ramirez, a 37-year-old death row prisoner, in 2017. Moore visits Ramirez around once a month; they sit and talk through ...

Ivan Cantu in the visitation room of the Polunsky Unit on Jan. 31, 2024. ... Cantu’s first execution date in 2012 was rescheduled because he was in the middle of federal litigation over his case.

Doil Edward Lane shuffles into the small cage that is the visiting room for death row inmates at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston. His head hangs down as he turns to let the guards remove his ...

Ivan Cantu in the visitation room of the Polunsky Unit on Jan. 31, 2024. ... Cantu’s first execution date in 2012 was rescheduled because he was in the middle of federal litigation over his case.

Ivan Cantu in the visitation room of the Polunsky Unit on Jan. 31, 2024. ... Cantu’s first execution date in 2012 was rescheduled because he was in the middle of federal litigation over his case.

A combination sink and toilet sit in the open in the recreation room in a section of death row at the Texas prison system’s Polunsky Unit near Livingston, Texas, on Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2001.

The dramatic slowdown has caused the Polunsky Unit’s population to plunge to 257 residents, the lowest number since it peaked at 460 in 1999. That year represented another milestone for the ...

On the day of an execution, they were taken from Polunsky to a room at the Huntsville prison, also called "Walls Unit," eight steps from the execution chamber, Houston said.

Scheduled for execution on Sept ... driving 300 miles northeast to the Allan B. Polunsky Unit in ... on either side of a thick Plexiglas window in the prison’s visiting room. Mr ...

The Polunsky Unit, where death row inmates are held, is in Livingston. The Supreme Court on March 24, 2022, sided with a Texas death row inmate seeking to have his pastor be allowed to pray out ...

news Crime ‘Work worth doing’: Texas lawmakers visit, pray with Robert Roberson as execution nears The 57-year-old is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Oct. 17 in Huntsville.

Not only for myself, but for friends—guys I’ve befriended, and they wind up with [execution] dates. ... We are seated in the Polunsky Unit’s visiting room. Lopez is encased in a small booth.