5 days ago · A Texas man convicted of murdering a pastor was put to death on Wednesday — and uttered chilling last words prior to being executed. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing ...

6 days ago · Steven Lawayne Nelson maintained that he unknowingly participated in the violent church robbery but didn’t harm anyone. His execution was the state’s first for 2025. Texas death row inmate ...

5 days 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 ...

5 days ago · Steven Lawayne Nelson was sentenced to death for the 2011 murder of Rev. Clint Dobson, 28, who was beaten, strangled and suffocated with a plastic bag inside NorthPointe Baptist Church in...

4 days ago · A death row inmate tried to say one final word before being executed, after beating and suffocating a pastor to death in Texas. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, received a lethal injection on Wednesday (5 February) evening, after being convicted of killing Rev. Clint Dobson in 2011.. The 28-year-old pastor had been beaten, strangled, and suffocated with a plastic bag by the murderer, inside ...

A Death Row killer who brutally murdered a pastor with a plastic bag in his church uttered three chilling final words to the warden as he was executed. Steven Lawayne Nelson, a Texas death row ...

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...

6 days ago · Texas death row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson. Michael Graczyk / AP file. South Carolina carried out the nation’s first execution of 2025 on Friday. Marion Bowman Jr. was convicted of murder in ...

6 days ago · 8:37 p.m. Feb. 5, 2025: Revised to include additional details. HUNTSVILLE — As Steven Nelson lay on the execution gurney Wednesday evening, more than a decade after his conviction in the death ...

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 the murder of Dobson who was smothered to death during a robbery bid at an Arlington church on March 3, 2011, and sentenced to …