1 day ago · Texas executed Steven Nelson for the 2011 murder of the Rev. Clint Dobson Wednesday night. It is the second execution of the year in the nation.

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 death on October 16, 2012. [1] Nelson, who ...

2 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.

1 day ago · The execution Steven Nelson for the 2011 murder of Rev. Clint Dobson is tonight. His wife and a death penalty activist will be witnesses.

1 day ago · Steven Nelson set for execution today in 2011 murder of Arlington pastor The 37-year-old was sentenced to death by a Tarrant County jury in 2012 for smothering a pastor during a botched robbery at ...

2 days ago · A Texas man convicted of murdering an Arlington pastor was put to death on Wednesday evening. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was sentenced to death in 2012, a year after he was found guilty of fatally ...

1 day ago · Steven Nelson was executed by lethal injection in Texas on Wednesday. He was executed at 6:50 p.m. CST.

2 days 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.

2 days ago · Steven Lawayne Nelson was condemned for the 2011 killing of the Rev. Clint Dobson, 28, who was beaten, strangled and suffocated with a plastic bag in Arlington.

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...