A 37-year-old Texas man was executed on Wednesday evening after being convicted of beating and suffocating his pastor amid a robbery. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson was condemned to death for the 2011 ... He would be the first Texas death row inmate executed since Robert Roberson's 17 October 2024 execution date was delayed in what ...

A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas-area pastor in his own church during a robbery was facing execution on Wednesday, the second scheduled execution in the US so far this year.