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

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

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 ...

First Baptist Arlington’s senior pastor said his role was to support families affected by the murder of one of the church's ...

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

Steven Lawayne Nelson maintained that he unknowingly participated in the violent church robbery but didn’t harm anyone. His ...

A death row inmate tried to say one final word before being executed, after beating and suffocating a pastor to death in ...

Steven Nelson, a 37-year-old convicted killer, became the first person executed in Texas in 2025. Nelson was put to death by lethal injection for ...

Texas man Steven Nelson, convicted in 2012 of murdering a pastor the year before, was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday evening.