A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his church during a robbery was put to death ...

As reported in this AP piece, 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.

Steven Lawayne Nelson was to be put to death Wednesday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the 2011 killing ...

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