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 ...

A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his own church during a robbery was put to death via lethal injection Wednesday evening. Steven Lawayne Nelson was to be ...

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 ...

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 ...