A Texas man has been executed for the killing of a Dallas area pastor who was attacked in his church during a robbery.

Texas executed Steven Lawayne Nelson for the murder of Pastor Clint Dobson, with AG Ken Paxton stating that justice was ...

A man in Texas convicted of beating and suffocating a pastor during a church robbery was executed in Huntsville on Wednesday evening, and used his last words to tell his wife he loved her. The ...

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

Death row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was executed via lethal injection on Wednesday (5 February) having been refused a ...

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 ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson, a Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas pastor in his church during a robbery over a decade ago, was executed Wednesday evening at the state penitentiary in ...

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

The families’ words remind us that while Steven Nelson took much from them, he could not steal their capacity for grace.

Steven Nelson, a 37-year-old convicted killer, became the first person executed in Texas in 2025. Nelson was put to death by lethal injection for ...