Six men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and 14 other people are scheduled to be put to death in eight states during the remainder of 2025. Three men ...

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.

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was executed on Feb. 5. He was convicted of the 2011 killing of the Rev. Clint Dobson, a 28-year-old pastor who was beaten, strangled and suffocated with a plastic bag ...