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

Steven Lawayne Nelson, convicted of murdering Pastor Clint Dobson during a church robbery in Arlington, Texas, was executed ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his church during a robbery was ...

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Death by lethal injection looks like the condemned person just went to sleep. But looks can be deceiving. Anesthesiologists know that an overdose of pentobarbital, the barbiturate used for executions ...

Republican lawmakers in Idaho are considering going back to the firing squad after the execution of a convicted serial killer via lethal injection completely failed last year. State ...