Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury pool and to impose the death penalty in the 2009 trial of a Black man in North Carolina, a judge ruled on Friday, part of what he ...

A death row inmate tried to say one final word before being executed, after beating and suffocating a pastor to death in ...

A convicted murderer and rapist was executed by nitrogen gas on Thursday — 14 years after he was transferred to Alabama while ...

An Alabama inmate convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment as she slept was put to death Thursday ...

A man in Texas convicted of beating and suffocating a pastor during a church robbery was executed in Huntsville on Wednesday evening, and used his last words to tell his wife he loved her. The ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson was condemned for the 2011 killing of the Rev. Clint Dobson at a Baptist church in Arlington. Dobson’s ...

Texas man Steven Nelson, convicted in 2012 of murdering a pastor the year before, was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday evening.

Alabama executed murderer and rapist Demetrius Terrance Frazier by nitrogen gas at 6 p.m. Thursday. He was convicted in the ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, died by lethal injection yesterday (February 5) at the state penitentiary in Huntsville ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson was handed the death penalty for killing of the 28-year-old during a robbery gone wrong - having ...

Death Row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson was convicted of murder after suffocating a pastor in his own church during a robbery, ...