Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. CST after being given a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville in the second scheduled execution in the country of the ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson was condemned for the 2011 killing of Rev. Clint Dobson, 28, who was beaten, strangled, and suffocated with a plastic bag inside NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington.

A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his church during a robbery was put to death ...