Six men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and 12 other people are scheduled to be put to ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has blocked the execution of convicted El Paso 'Desert Killer' David Leonard Wood, amid lack of DNA evidence.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his church during a robbery was put to death ... three months. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37 ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing ... Polunsky Unit, Texas’ death row jail, situated in Livingtson, north of Houston. The murderer spent his final moments alive ...

A death-row inmate, whom married just weeks ago, had some unexpected final words seconds before his lethal injection for murdering a pastor. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 ...

Steven Lawayane ... He was sentenced to death after he was convicted of shooting and killing a friend. Police found the victim's body in a burned out car in 2001. Following Nelson's execution ...

A Death Row killer executed overnight never tucked into a final meal for a bizarre reason. Steven Lawayne Nelson was found guilty of killing Clint Dobson at NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington ...

was put to death Wednesday evening. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. local time following a lethal injection that was administered at a state penitentiary in Huntsville.