A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his own church is facing scheduled execution Wednesday evening.

During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

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.

Nelson was accused of killing 28-year-old pastor Clinton "Clint" Dobson in 2011. Nelson entered NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington and allegedly attacked Dobson and 69-year-old secretary Judy ...

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 ...

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.

Polunsky Unit, the prison that houses the 169 men on Death Row in Livingston, Texas Steven Nelson has spent more than a dozen years on Death Row in Texas and is to be executed by lethal injection ...