Texas Proceeds with First Execution of the Year Amid Capital Punishment Debate
Texas executes Steven Nelson, convicted for a pastor's 2011 murder, amidst debates on capital punishment ethics.
Texas executes man for 2011 murder of church pastor
The State of Texas executed a Black man convicted of killing a pastor during a robbery in 2011, despite his claims that while he was present during the crime he was not responsible for the murder.
Texas man who killed Arlington pastor in his church to be executed Wednesday
A man on death row for killing a North Texas pastor is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday evening in Huntsville.
'He fought to the very end': Steven Nelson executed in Texas for murder of young pastor
Texas executed Steven Nelson for the 2011 murder of the Rev. Clint Dobson Wednesday night. It is the second execution of the year in the nation.
Texas Man Set to Be Executed for Killing a Pastor in His Own Church
A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his own church is facing execution on Wednesday evening
Christians protest execution of Texas man convicted of killing pastor
Steven Lawayne Nelson, a Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas pastor in his church during a robbery over a decade ago, was executed Wednesday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.
Steven Nelson Final Words Before Texas Execution
Steven Nelson repeatedly told his wife that he loved her shortly before he was executed and said he was thankful and grateful, the Associated Press reported. Why It Matters. Nelso
Texas Supreme Court pauses lawsuit against Steven Hotze over 2020 election conspiracy assault
The Texas Supreme Court has put a temporary pause on a Harris County civil lawsuit accusing Republican activist Steven Hotze ...
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Supreme Court divided on Texas age-verification law for porn sites
The Supreme Court on Wednesday was divided over a challenge to a Texas law that requires pornography sites to verify the age ...
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Houston must allocate more money for drainage projects after Texas Supreme Court rejects appeal
The City of Houston, already financially strapped, must allocate more money to street and drainage projects after the Texas Supreme Court on Friday declined to consider its appeal in a ...
Houston must spend hundreds of millions on streets, drainage after Texas Supreme Court denies appeal
The city filed an appeal in the case back in September and didn't forsee financial consequences until the upcoming budget ...
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What Will the Texas Supreme Court Say About Allocation and PSA Wells?
Alas, we might never know. Opiela v. Railroad Commission of Texas and Magnolia Oil & Gas Operating, was a challenge to the Commission’s authority ...
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Is Texas due for a judicial pay raise? Here's what chief justice says and what's proposed
The Supreme Court of Texas' new chief justice is calling on the Legislature to significantly raise judicial salaries across the state as the Senate Finance Committee works through its budget ...
Ken Paxton's rich allies helped put a top Texas judge in office. Can he clean up judicial politics?
David Schenk, the new presiding judge on Texas’ Court of Criminal Appeals, is on a mission to make sweeping changes to the rules governing judicial elections in the Lone Star State.   Right now, ...
Appeals Court Strikes Down Federal Ban on Handgun Sales to Teenagers
The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit applied the Supreme Court’s “historical tradition” test.