Steven Lawayne Nelson maintained that he unknowingly participated in the violent church robbery but didn’t harm anyone. His ...

A death row inmate tried to say one final word before being executed, after beating and suffocating a pastor to death in ...

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

Steven Lawayne Nelson was condemned for the 2011 killing of the Rev. Clint Dobson at a Baptist church in Arlington. Dobson’s ...

Texas man Steven Nelson, convicted in 2012 of murdering a pastor the year before, was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday evening.

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, died by lethal injection yesterday (February 5) at the state penitentiary in Huntsville ...

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

A Texas man convicted of murdering a pastor was put to death on Wednesday — and uttered chilling last words prior to being ...

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 ...