The New Yorker2d
The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’s Death Row
Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...
USA TODAY on MSN17d
Church of murdered pastor supports execution. Another clergyman says it should be stopped
Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 murder of the Rev. Clint Dobson at NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington, just west ...
Texas Monthly29d
He’s on Death Row for Killing a Pastor. Christians Are Divided Over Whether He Should Die.
“There was a demand for Steven Nelson’s head on a platter,” Jeff Hood said, casting church leaders in the role of Herodias, the adulterous princess of the Christian gospels who ...
USA Today20d
Church of murdered pastor supports execution. Another clergyman says it should be stopped
Steven Nelson, convicted for the 2011 murder of a pastor ... church's stance contradicts Christian teachings. Ecclesiastical lines have been drawn over the fate of Texas death row inmate Steven ...
Texas to execute Steven Nelson today for ambitious young pastor's murder. What to know.
Texas is set to execute Steven Nelson by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 2011 murder of beloved pastor Clint Dobson, ...
Houston Chronicle27d
Christians argue death penalty in controversial North Texas murder case
per reporting by Texas Monthly. Hood has asked Northpointe Baptist's parent church, First Baptist Church in Arlington, to help him in his quest to get Nelson off death row. Hood, who belongs to ...
The New Zealand Herald5d
US man convicted of pastor’s murder executed in Texas after years on death row
A man was executed by lethal injection in the US state of Texas ... 2011 murder of a pastor that he insisted he did not commit. Steven Nelson, 37, spent more than a dozen years on death row ...
Los Angeles Times13d
LA Times Today: Oscar-nominated short documentary explores Texas death penalty case
Warden” is based on reporting from L.A. Times investigative reporter Keri Blakinger who followed Ramirez after he was ...
Austin American-Statesman7d
Texas to execute Steven Nelson today for the 2011 murder of a young pastor
Texas is set to execute Steven Nelson by lethal injection Wednesday for the 2011 murder of a beloved pastor ... There are currently 178 people on death row in Texas, including Nelson, according ...
CBS News7d
Texas executes man convicted in 2011 murder of Arlington pastor
A Texas man convicted of murdering an Arlington pastor was put to death on Wednesday evening. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was sentenced to death in 2012, a year after he was found guilty of fatally ...
Philippine Daily Inquirer9d
‘Breaks a little part of you every day’: Texas man on Death Row
LIVINGSTON, United States — Steven Nelson has spent more than a dozen years on Death Row in Texas and is to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for the murder of a pastor that he ...
AOL7d
'He fought to the very end': Steven Nelson executed in Texas for murder of young pastor
Texas executed Steven Nelson by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 2011 murder of a beloved young ... There are currently 177 people on death row in Texas, according to the Death Penalty ...