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.

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

Six men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and 12 other people are scheduled to be put to death in six ... Texas in 2004. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was executed ...

That's the most in a three-month period since 10 people were executed from August 2024 through October 2024, according to records compiled by the Death ... in 2004. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37 ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson was condemned to death for the 2011 ... He would be the first Texas death row inmate executed since Robert Roberson's 17 October 2024 execution date was delayed in what ...

A Texas death ... row inmate who savagely suffocated, beat and killed a member of the clergy inside his own church uttered one completely haunting phrase just moments before his execution. Steven ...