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

Texas executed Steven Nelson for the 2011 murder of the Rev. Clint Dobson Wednesday night. It is the second execution of the ...

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

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

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

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 church during a robbery was put to death Wednesday evening, the second execution in the U.S. this year and the first of ...

Texas's first female condemned killer received special permission to leave jail and be baptized at New Light Baptist Church ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice in Huntsville carried out the execution. "After years of legal battles, Steven Nelson was punished for his heinous crimes and justice has finally been ...

Nelson was accused of killing 28-year-old pastor Clinton "Clint" Dobson in 2011. Nelson entered NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington and allegedly attacked Dobson and 69-year-old secretary Judy ...