Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...
Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was killed via lethal injection on Wednesday evening - the second execution in the country this ...
Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing of Rev. Clint Dobson and put to death on Wednesday.
Texas has used the drug since 2012, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Dobson, who was just 28 years old, was beaten and suffocated. Church secretary Judy Elliot, 69, was severely ...