Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

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LIVINGSTON, United States — Steven Nelson has spent more than a dozen years on Death Row in Texas and is to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for the murder of a pastor that he ...

At the turn of the century in 2000, the population on Texas’ death row reached a record high of 459 inmates and officials carried out 40 executions, the most in a single year. Decades later ...

A man in Texas convicted of beating and suffocating a pastor during ... Marion Bowman Jr also died by lethal injection. He was sentenced to death after he was convicted of shooting and killing a ...

The men he blamed the death on were reportedly cleared after their alibis checked out. Texas has three other executions scheduled through the end of April. The first is scheduled for February 13 of ...

A Texas man convicted of murdering a pastor was put to death on Wednesday — and uttered chilling last words prior to being executed. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing ...

Cameron Todd Willingham had been on death row for 12 years when he said his final words, strapped to a Texas lethal injection table. "The only statement I want to make is that I am an innocent man ...

Steven Nelson has spent more than a dozen years on Death Row in Texas and is to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for the murder of a pastor that he insists he did not commit.

The men he blamed the death on were reportedly cleared after their alibis checked out. Texas has three other executions scheduled through the end of April. The first is scheduled for February 13 ...