What to know about the death penalty and death row in Texas
Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...
USA TODAY on MSN7d
'I'm not a lost cause': Steven Nelson, set to be executed by Texas, makes final arguments
Nelson, 37, was convicted of the 2011 murder of the Rev. Clint Dobson in a robbery that turned fatal inside Dobson's own ...
The Independent6d
Death row killer who murdered pastor in his own church to be executed
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 ...
Executions in Alabama and Texas as Trump administration sets out death penalty agenda
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 ...
AZ Central7d
Steven Nelson was convicted of a Texas pastor's murder. Now he's about to be executed.
says he has grown in the 13 years he's been on Death Row. Nelson married his wife, Noa Dubois, in 2020 after the pair met through a prison letter-writing program. A Texas man set to be executed in ...
The Texas Tribune on MSN12d
Texas legislators seek more protections for death penalty defendants in wake of Trump executive order
Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency11d
Texas Jew on death row granted stay of execution
Jedidiah Murphy, 48, was sentenced to death for the fatal 2000 shooting of 80-year-old Bertie Lee Cunningham in Dallas County during a carjacking. (JTA) — A stay of execution was upheld for a ...