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

NACOGDOCHES, Texas (KTRE) - It was a normal Sunday service for Austin Heights Baptist Church in Nacogdoches, but with an encouraging message from civil rights activist Reverend Peter Johnson.

First Baptist Arlington’s senior pastor said his role was to support families affected by the murder of one of the church's ...

Texas executed Steven Lawayne Nelson for the murder of Pastor Clint Dobson, with AG Ken Paxton stating that justice was ...

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

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his church during a robbery was ...

Nelson, 37, was put to death by lethal injection for smothering Clint Dobson, a 28-year-old pastor and husband, during a ...

This marked the first execution in Texas in 2025 and the second in the U.S. There are three other executions scheduled this ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson is the first Texas death row inmate executed since Robert Roberson, who was killed Oct. 17, 2024 ...

A Texas man is to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 2011 murder of a pastor that he insists he did not ...

Texas executed Steven Nelson for the 2011 murder of the Rev. Clint Dobson Wednesday night. It is the second execution of the year in the nation.