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

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. FILE - Texas death row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson poses for a photo in a visiting cage at the Texas ...

A man convicted of killing two people in Bell County, Texas has been executed, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). TDCJ said Richard Lee Tabler was executed on Thursday, Feb.

FILE - Texas death row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson poses for a photo in a visiting cage at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit outside Livingston, Texas, on Dec. 5, 2012.

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 ...

Texas is set to execute Steven Nelson by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 2011 murder of beloved pastor Clint Dobson, who was just beginning his ministerial career.

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