A Texas man convicted of murdering a pastor was put to death on Wednesday — and uttered chilling last words prior to being executed. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing of Rev.

Demetrius Frazier apologized to the loved ones of one of the women he murdered and uttered two final words before he was executed in Alabama via a controversial suffocation method

Marion Bowman has decided not to seek clemency from South Carolina’s governor, guaranteeing he will face the death chamber Friday night. The death row inmate continues to maintain his innocence. But “he cannot in good conscience ask for a supposed mercy that would require him to spend the rest of his life in