Executed
Steven Lawayne Nelson
Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was a laborer who had left high school and recently married while on death row. He was executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas, on February 5, 2025, and was pronounced dead that evening. Before his execution he pleaded for mercy, and his attorneys appealed, but state and federal courts denied those appeals. The U.S. Supreme Court also rejected a last-day request to block the execution.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: Texas Department of Criminal Justice (the agency that held him); Vocal.media roundup of 2025 U.S. executions (reporters); news account of the Huntsville execution (reporters).