Texas's first female condemned killer received special permission to leave jail and be baptized at New Light Baptist Church ...

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s efforts to bolster the federal death penalty and to encourage the 27 states ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson sat on death row for 14 years awaiting lethal injection. After his Feb. 5 execution, advocates are ...

Demetrius Frazier, 52, was sentenced to death in 1996 for the 1991 murder of 40-year-old Pauline Brown, a mother of two, in ...

A man in Texas convicted of beating and suffocating a pastor during a church robbery was executed in Huntsville on Wednesday evening, and used his last words to tell his wife he loved her. The ...

A US man convicted of murdering a pastor was put to death this — and uttered some unexpected last words prior to being ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson was condemned for the 2011 killing of the Rev. Clint Dobson at a Baptist church in Arlington. Dobson’s ...

Texas man Steven Nelson, convicted in 2012 of murdering a pastor the year before, was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday evening.

Steven Lawayne Nelson was convicted of murder after suffocating a pastor in his own church during a robbery, as well as ...

Steven Nelson was executed by lethal injection in Texas on Wednesday for the 2011 murder of a pastor that he insisted he did ...