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.

A death penalty date for Wendell Grissom will stand after the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board denied him clemency on Wednesday morning.

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was killed via lethal injection on Wednesday evening - the second execution in the country this year.