Steven Lawayne Nelson was executed via lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, for the 2011 murder of Reverand Clint Dobson ...

Texas executes Steven Nelson, convicted for a pastor's 2011 murder, amidst debates on capital punishment ethics.

Texas — A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his church during a robbery was put to death Wednesday evening, the second execution in the U.S. this year and ...

Months after the state’s last execution was stayed amid bipartisan criticism and a separation-of-powers dispute so dire it threatened a constitutional crisis, Steven Nelson’s case has drawn ...

A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his own church during a robbery was facing execution on Wednesday, the second scheduled execution in the U.S. so far this year.

A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his church during a robbery was put to death Wednesday evening, the second execution in the U.S. this year and the first of ...