Steven Nelson, 37, spent more than a dozen years on death row for the murder of Clint Dobson, 28, during a robbery of the NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington, near Dallas.

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 received a lethal injection Wednesday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — 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 ...