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 ...
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The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’s Death Row
Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...
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 ...
Arlington pastor stays silent on death penalty after Steven Nelson’s execution
First Baptist Arlington’s senior pastor said his role was to support families affected by the murder of one of the church's ...
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Texas man set to be executed for killing a pastor in his own church
A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his own church is facing execution on Wednesday evening ...
Texas death row inmate’s final words before execution are revealed
Texas death row inmate’s final words before execution are revealed - Steven Lawayane Nelson was the second person executed in ...
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The Final Words of a Condemned Man: Texas Carries Out First Execution of 2025
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 convict issues last message to wife before execution for killing pastor
Texas man Steven Nelson, convicted in 2012 of murdering a pastor the year before, was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday evening.
'He fought to the very end': Steven Nelson executed in Texas for murder of young pastor
Texas executed Steven Nelson for the 2011 murder of the Rev. Clint Dobson Wednesday night. It is the second execution of the ...