Today on Louisiana Considered, we learn why a man who was convicted on faulty bite mark evidence is facing execution, even ...

If all executions scheduled through March 20 take place, nine people will have been executed in the first three months of the ...

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 justices heard arguments in the case of a man on death row in Texas who claims DNA testing could spare his life. By Abbie VanSickle Reporting from Washington Ruben Gutierrez, a Texas death row ...

The latest Texas death row news from The Texas Tribune ... Full Story By Ayden Runnels Updated: Feb. 5, 2025 Steven Lawayne Nelson maintained that he unknowingly participated in the violent ...

Richard Lee Tabler was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in 2007 for the 2004 ... In February, Texas also executed Steven Lawayne Nelson, a man convicted of killing an Arlington ...

(Photo credit: Jarvis DeBerry/Louisiana Illuminator) A Rapides Parish man could be the first person Louisiana puts to death in 15 ... a lethal dose to Steven Lawayne Nelson last week for the ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his church during a robbery was put to death ... three months. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37 ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing ... Polunsky Unit, Texas’ death row jail, situated in Livingtson, north of Houston. The murderer spent his final moments alive ...