3 days ago · HUNTSVILLE — As Steven Nelson lay on the execution gurney Wednesday evening, more than a decade after his conviction in the death of an Arlington pastor, two families bound by his actions turned ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson (February 18, 1987 – February 5, 2025) was an American convicted 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 therefore sentenced to …

4 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 ...

6 days ago · Steven Lawayne Nelson was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder Clinton “Clint” Dobson, who was found dead after being viciously beaten and suffocated with a plastic bag at NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas. Nelson committed the murder while engaging in a robbery and also brutally beat another woman who was present at ...

3 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 ...

1 day ago · Steven Lawayne Nelson was executed Wednesday for killing an Arlington pastor, a crime he maintained he did not commit, though he admitted he was there for a robbery while the murder occurred. Nelson, 37, was injected with a lethal dose of pentobarbital and pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. Wednesday, according to the Texas Department of Criminal ...

1 day ago · Arlington, Texas – Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was executed by lethal injection on February 5, 2025, at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville for the 2011 murder of Pastor Clint Dobson during a robbery at NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington.. Crime Details. On March 3, 2011, Nelson entered NorthPointe Baptist Church, where he suffocated Pastor Dobson with a plastic bag and severely ...

3 days ago · A North Texas man is set to be executed at the state penitentiary in Huntsville this evening despite maintaining his innocence in the 2011 murder of an Arlington pastor. Steven Nelson, 37, was ...

Steven Nelson was executed on Wednesday for an Arlington church pastor's murder. Nelson killed Arlington Rev. Clint Dobson in his church in 2011. This is Texas' first execution of 2025. ARLINGTON ...

3 days ago · ARLINGTON, Texas — This article was originally published by our content partners at the Texas Tribune. Read the original article here. Barring a last-minute stay, Steven Lawayne Nelson is set to ...