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

Texas death row inmate’s final words before execution are revealed - Steven Lawayane Nelson was the second person executed in ...

A Texas man convicted of murdering a pastor was put to death on Wednesday — and uttered chilling last words prior to being executed. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing ...

Jurors had the option of sentencing Nelson to life in prison without parole, but ultimately gave him the death sentence. It will be the first execution in Texas in 2025. There are three other ...

Texas has used the drug since 2012, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Dobson, who was just 28 years old, was beaten and suffocated. Church secretary Judy Elliot, 69, was severely ...

(AP) - A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his own church during a robbery was facing a planned lethal injection Wednesday evening, the second scheduled ...

Texas state Rep. Jeff Leach shows an image of a spot of blood that contradicted the narrative that led to Robert Roberson's conviction in his daughter's death. (Chitose Suzuki / Staff Photographer ...