The appeal includes new testimony from experts who say Roberson’s daughter died of natural causes, and cites the court’s ...
A US man convicted of murdering a pastor was put to death this — and uttered some unexpected last words prior to being executed.
Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...
A Texas man convicted of murdering a pastor was put to death on Wednesday — and uttered ... side of a glass partition at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit. FAMILY HANDOUT/AFP via Getty Images This ...
Texas is set to execute Steven Nelson by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 2011 murder of beloved pastor Clint Dobson, who was just beginning his ministerial career.
FILE - Texas death row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson poses for a photo in a visiting cage at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit outside Livingston, Texas, on Dec. 5, 2012.
FILE - Texas death row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson poses for a photo in a visiting cage at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit outside Livingston, Texas, on Dec. 5, 2012.
A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his own church is facing scheduled execution Wednesday evening.