1 day ago · "Steven Nelson forever changed our lives, but he has never occupied our minds." Nelson's execution is the second in the U.S. this year and the first in Texas in 2025.

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 …

1 day ago · Texas is set to execute Steven Nelson by lethal injection Wednesday for the 2011 murder of a beloved pastor who was just beginning his ministerial career. Nelson, 37, was convicted for the murder ...

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. Texas death row inmate ...

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.

3 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 ...

2 days ago · FILE - Steven Lawayne Nelson takes the witness stand to testify in his own defense in his capital murder trial on Friday, Oct. 5, 2012, in Fort Worth, Texas. (Joyce Marshall/Star-Telegram via AP ...

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

3 days ago · The Brief. Convicted murderer Steven Nelson is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday. Nelson suffocated pastor Clint Dobson in 2011. Nelson would be the first execution in Texas in 2025.

2 days ago · Steven Nelson is set to be executed on Wednesday Nelson killed Arlington Rev. Clint Dobson in his church in 2011. It would be Texas' first execution of 2025. ARLINGTON, Texas - A man on death row ...