2 clergy members have called on Gov. Greg Abbott to stop a planned execution. Steven Nelson is set to die on Wednesday for ...

A Texas man set to be executed in the killing of a beloved pastor is making a last plea for mercy before he's taken to the death chamber on Wednesday, saying in a last interview that he's innocent.

A North Texas man is set to be executed at the state penitentiary in Huntsville this evening despite maintaining his innocence in the 2011 murder of an Arlington pastor. Steven Nelson, 37, was ...

Texas is set to execute Steven Nelson by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 2011 murder of a beloved pastor who was just beginning his ministerial career. Nelson, 37, was convicted for the murder ...

ARLINGTON, Texas — This article was originally published by our content partners at the Texas Tribune. Read the original article here. Barring a last-minute stay, Steven Lawayne Nelson is set to be ...

Months after the state’s last execution was stayed amid bipartisan criticism and a separation-of-powers dispute so dire it threatened a constitutional crisis, Steven Nelson’s case has drawn few calls ...

A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his church during a robbery was put to death Wednesday evening, the second execution in the U.S. this year and the first of ...

First Baptist Church Arlington Pastor Dennis Wiles speaks with the press in front of NorthPointe Baptist Church on March 4, 2011. NorthPointe Pastor Clint Dobson was found dead and church employee ...

While Nelson admits to participating in the robbery of Dobson and church secretary Judy Elliot, he claims two accomplices committed the murder. Nelson, who had a troubled childhood and criminal ...