The pastor's young widow, Laura Dobson, sobbed on the stand during Steven Nelson's murder trial, saying: 'I didn't know this ...

The idea of the Phineas Priesthood, sometimes referred to simply as Phineas Priests, originates in Vigilantes of Christendom: The Story of the Phineas Priesthood, a 1990 book by white supremacist ...

Steven Nelson, 38, was sentenced to death in 2012, a year after he was found guilty of murdering Arlington pastor Clint ...

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 ...

Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to capital punishment. Dr. Jeffery Singer testifies during a Criminal ...

Steven Nelson faces execution in Texas for the murder of Pastor Clint Dobson, maintaining his innocence and highlighting his ...

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

(Chitose Suzuki / Staff Photographer) For many years, this page has been raising concerns about flaws in Texas’ death penalty system, and the risk that we as citizens of this great state have of ...

While the order would make it easier to obtain more capital punishment verdicts, the directive clashes with a current trend in Texas, the leading state in executions by far, in which use of the death ...

Texas has removed 32 people from death row based on evidence of intellectual disability since Atkins v. Virginia. Yet despite the rulings making those executions unconstitutional, no case or ...

Texas death row inmate Steve Nelson was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday night, closing his final words with an ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was killed via lethal injection on Wednesday evening - the second execution in the country this ...