The most recent U.S. execution took place Friday, when Brad Sigmon, 67, died by firing squad in South Carolina. Sigmon, who ...

Chief District Judge Shelly Dick's ruling came a week before Jessie Hoffman was set to be executed by nitrogen gas at the ...

Army veteran Stephan Smerk, 53, pleaded guilty in October to the 1994 stabbing death of 37-year-old Robin Lawrence, who was ...

He was convicted of the 2011 killing of the Rev. Clint Dobson, a 28-year-old pastor who was beaten, strangled and suffocated with a plastic bag inside NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington.

Followed categories will be added to My News. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing of the Reverend Clint Dobson — who was beaten, choked, and suffocated with a plastic ...

Nelson, who was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. CT, was convicted of killing the Rev. Clint Dobson at NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington, just west of Dallas. The Rev. Jeff Hood, who was Nelson ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday evening for the 2011 death of Rev. Clint Dobson and assault of his assistant Judy Elliott. Nelson, who was a native of ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson, a Texas death row inmate, killed Dallas area pastor Reverend Clint Dobson in cold blood during a church robbery, was executed on February 5. The lethal injection at Huntsville's ...