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

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

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

Steven Lawayne Nelson was executed via lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, for the 2011 murder of Reverand Clint Dobson ...

A man on death row for killing a North Texas pastor is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday evening in Huntsville.

The men he blamed the death on were reportedly cleared after their alibis checked out. Texas has three other executions scheduled through the end of April. The first is scheduled for February 13 ...

Steven Nelson, convicted in the killing of an Arlington priest in 2011, is set to be executed on Tuesday. Hummingbirds are a ...

A man in Texas convicted of beating and suffocating a ... He was pronounced dead 24 minutes after the injection was administered. The first execution in the U.S. this year occurred on Friday in South ...

Nelson, 37, was convicted of the 2011 murder of the Rev. Clint Dobson in a robbery that turned fatal inside Dobson's own ...

A man was executed by lethal injection in the US state of Texas on Thursday for the 2011 murder of a pastor that he insisted ...

FILE - Texas death row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson poses for a photo in a visiting cage at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit outside Livingston, Texas, on Dec. 5, 2012.

It comes as a death row inmate is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday for the murder of a North Texas pastor.