Texas on Wednesday carried out its first execution since the state halted the planned lethal injection of an Anderson County man whose legal battle continues.

Steven Lawayne Nelson sat on death row for 14 years awaiting lethal injection. After his Feb. 5 execution, advocates are ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson was executed by lethal injection in the state of Texas on Wednesday for the brutal 2011 killing of the ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson maintained that he unknowingly participated in the violent church robbery but didn’t harm anyone. His ...

Hours before he was scheduled to become the first person in the country to be executed based on evidence of what used to be called "shaken baby syndrome," Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson was ...

Nelson, 37, was put to death by lethal injection for smothering Clint Dobson, a 28-year-old pastor and husband, during a ...

The State of Texas executed a Black man convicted of killing a pastor during a robbery in 2011, despite his claims that while ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson was condemned to death for the 2011 killing of Reverend Clint Dobson, 28, who was beaten, strangled and ...

Robert Roberson’s life hangs in suspended animation, awaiting a new death warrant that has yet to be issued. The church prays quietly. Some write letters or make calls.

Hours before he was scheduled to become the first person in the country to be executed based on evidence of what used to be called "shaken baby syndrome," Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson killed Reverend Clint Dobson in cold blood during a church robbery but wanted a lie detector to prove ...

Neither of the other two men ever faced prison time for the murder, something Nelson’s wife, Noa Dubois, says is a key ...