Steven Nelson was executed by lethal injection in Texas on Wednesday for the 2011 murder of a pastor that he insisted he did ...

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

The crime that landed Steven Nelson on Texas’ death row took place 14 years ago in a North Texas church ... Jeff Hood puts it—that he is “not the poster-child” for innocence. Nelson’s scheduled ...

Nelson's execution approaches on the heels of a blizzard of media attention and political advocacy on behalf of another Texas ...

Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, speaks at ... maintained his innocence of Kandee Martin’s murder, yet he has already spent more than half of his life on death row. He cannot in good conscience ask ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson was handed the death penalty for killing of the 28-year-old during a robbery gone wrong - having ...

Politicians like Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton project ... shows that Texas juries are continuing to sentence fewer and fewer people to death. Only six new people were sent to death row this year.

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 ...

Two of the 37 people on federal death row whose sentences were commuted last ... death in 2004 in the killing of a fellow prisoner in Texas, and Len Davis, a former Louisiana police officer ...

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...