In the last two weeks, multiple inmate deaths have occurred at the James V. Allred Unit off 369 in Wichita County. Since ...

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A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his own church is facing scheduled execution ...

Steven Nelson, 38, was sentenced to death in 2012, a year after he was found guilty of murdering Arlington pastor Clint ...

Noe DeLeon will serve 30 years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and be registered as a sex offender for life after ...

Neither of the other two men ever faced prison time for the murder, something Nelson’s wife, Noa Dubois, says is a key ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson was executed Wednesday for killing an Arlington pastor, a crime he maintained he did not commit, though ...

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

The State of Texas executed a Black man convicted of killing a pastor during a robbery in 2011, despite his claims that while ...

Texas executes Steven Nelson, convicted for a pastor's 2011 murder, amidst debates on capital punishment ethics.