6 hours ago · Nelson, 37, is the second death row inmate to be executed in the U.S. this year. ... Texas death row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson poses for a photo in a visiting cage at the Texas Department of ...

14 hours ago · Why is Steven Nelson on Texas death row? Dobson, who was just 28 years old, was beaten and suffocated. Church secretary Judy Elliot, 69, was severely beaten but survived, according to court records .

1 day ago · 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)

22 hours ago · Nelson would be the first Texas death row inmate executed since Robert Roberson’s Oct. 17, 2024, execution date was delayed in what would have been the first in the U.S. tied to a diagnosis of ...

23 hours ago · Texas is set to execute Steven Nelson by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 2011 murder of beloved pastor Clint Dobson, who was just beginning his ministerial career. ... Death row inmates in ...

1 day ago · Texas death row inmate to be executed Wednesday 00:52. A man convicted for the murder of an Arlington pastor is set to be executed on Wednesday. Steven Nelson, 37, was sentenced to death in 2012 ...

1 day ago · Nelson’s execution, which also would be the first in the United States in 2025, comes at a time in which death sentences and executions in Texas have reached record lows.The growing infrequency ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson (February 18, 1987 – February 5, 2025) was an American convicted murderer executed for the 2011 murder of 28-year-old Arlington pastor Clinton "Clint" Dobson in Texas. Nelson was found guilty of murdering Dobson by smothering him to death during a robbery bid at an Arlington church on March 3, 2011, and therefore sentenced to …

Jul 18, 2024 · ARLINGTON, Texas - A man on death row for killing a North Texas pastor is now scheduled to be executed early next year. Steven Nelson was set to die by lethal injection in October, but...

Subject and two codefendants entered the church to rob the victims of their personal items. The pastor had been bound and suffocated with a plastic bag, additionally with blunt force trauma to his head, face, back, shoulder, arms and hands. The female victim had massive head trauma but was alive. Texas Department of Criminal Justice.