Texas death row inmate’s final words before execution are revealed

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. (AP Photo/Michael Graczyk, File) - (AP)

A man in Texas convicted of beating and suffocating a pastor during a church robbery was executed in Huntsville on Wednesday evening, and used his last words to tell his wife he loved her.

The execution was the second this year in the U.S. and the first of four scheduled in Texas over the next three months, according to the Associated Press.