The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’s Death Row
Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The story of a powerful spiritual alliance.
Texas death row inmate’s final words before execution are revealed
Texas death row inmate’s final words before execution are revealed - Steven Lawayane Nelson was the second person executed in the US in 2025
Death row inmate’s chilling last words for warden before lethal injection revealed
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 of Rev.
Why death row inmate was refused final meal before being executed in front of wife who held up dog to watch
Death row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was executed via lethal injection on Wednesday (5 February) having been refused a final meal.
Steven Nelson Final Words Before Texas Execution
Nelson was accused of killing 28-year-old pastor Clinton "Clint" Dobson in 2011. Nelson entered NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington and allegedly attacked Dobson and 69-year-old secretary Judy Elliott. Nelson was on probation for the assault of his girlfriend at the time.
Death Row inmate's haunting last words just before execution for pastor's murder
Steven Lawayne Nelson was convicted of murder after suffocating a pastor in his own church during a robbery, as well as beating the church secretary, has been put to death overnight
Death row inmate's chilling last words as wife held up dog to watch before execution
Steven Lawayne Nelson was executed via lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, for the 2011 murder of Reverand Clint Dobson while his wife and dog watched.
Texas man set to be executed for killing a pastor in his own church
A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his own church is facing scheduled execution ...
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Death row killer who murdered pastor in his own church to be executed
He would be the first Texas death row inmate executed since Robert Roberson's 17 October 2024 execution date was delayed in what would have been the first in the US tied to a diagnosis of ...
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Texas legislators seek more protections for death penalty defendants in wake of Trump executive order
Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...
Two Texas fathers are sentenced to death, but questions linger
Two men in Texas are sentenced to death for murdering their children — for one of them, it is already too late. For the other ...
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Priests, pastors gather at state Capitol to protest looming execution
It comes as a death row inmate is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday for the murder of a North Texas pastor.