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

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

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As the lethal dose of the sedative pentobarbital began to be administered, he told Dubois, who married him recently while he was in prison ... the first Texas death row inmate executed since ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, after spending 13 years locked up for the murder of a pastor. He was put on death row after being convicted of beating ...

The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s efforts to bolster the federal death penalty and to encourage the 27 states ...

Two men in Texas are sentenced to death for murdering their children — for one of them, it is already too late. For the other ...

The women are housed at the O’Daniel Unit in Gatesville. Executions are carried out in Huntsville, about a three-hour drive from Dallas. As of Feb. 6, 2025, there were 174 people on death row in ...

Gerald “Bo” King, chief of the Capital Habeas Unit ... s death row population has dwindled. The state had 63 condemned inmates in early 2011. It currently has 29. About 20 inmates have been taken off ...