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Loden's time of death was 6:12 p.m. CST. Noa Dubois, the wife of former Texas death row inmate Steven Nelson, said that Hood's guidance was instrumental in her husband's final days.

Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan, who put a moratorium on executions in 2000 and later commuted the death sentences of more than 160 inmates before leaving office, died on May 2.

It will be the 13th execution in the nation. Mendoza was sentenced to death row for the murder of 20-year-old Rachelle O'Neil Tolleson on March 18, 2004, in Farmersville, Texas.

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.

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Steven Nelson, 37, was put to death Feb. 5 for smothering Clint Dobson, a 28-year-old pastor and husband, during a botched robbery at NorthPointe Baptist Church in 2011.

Hélène Noa Dubois, (right) partner of death row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson, wipes away a tear as she speaks beside Rev. Jeff Hood during a news conference Nov. 15, 2024, in Arlington.

The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s efforts to bolster the federal death penalty and to encourage the 27 ...

A death row inmate tried to say one final word before being executed, after beating and suffocating a pastor to death in Texas. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, received a lethal injection on Wednesday (5 ...

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.