Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his own church is facing scheduled execution ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was killed via lethal injection on Wednesday evening - the second execution in the country this ...

The men he blamed the death on were reportedly cleared after their alibis checked out. Texas has three other executions scheduled through the end of April. The first is scheduled for February 13 ...

A man on death row for killing a North Texas pastor is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday evening in Huntsville.

Nelson, 37, was convicted of the 2011 murder of the Rev. Clint Dobson in a robbery that turned fatal inside Dobson's own ...

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

He would be the first Texas death row inmate executed since Robert Roberson's 17 October 2024 execution date was delayed in what would have been the first in the US tied to a diagnosis of shaken ...

It comes as a death row inmate is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday for the murder of a North Texas pastor.

The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s efforts to bolster the federal death penalty and to encourage the 27 states ...

A man was executed by lethal injection in the US state of Texas on Thursday for the 2011 murder of a pastor that he insisted ...

Nelson would be the first Texas death row inmate executed since Robert Roberson's Oct. 17, 2024, execution date was delayed in what would have been the first in the U.S. tied to a diagnosis of ...