Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was executed by lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville and was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. CST, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice confirmed to ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. FILE - Texas death row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson poses for a photo in a visiting cage at the Texas ...

The execution was the second this year in the U.S. and the first of four scheduled in Texas over the next three months, according to the Associated Press. Steven Lawayane Nelson, 37, was executed ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing ... NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington, west of Dallas, Texas, according to the Associated Press. He was being held at the ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — As Steven Nelson lay on the execution gurney Wednesday evening, more than a decade after his conviction in the death of an Arlington pastor, two families bound by his actions ...