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 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 ...

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 ...

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 · HUNTSVILLE, Texas – Texas executed Steven Nelson Feb. 5 for the 2011 murder of Clint Dobson, pastor of NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington. Nelson was sentenced to die after a Tarrant County jury found him guilty of capital murder for beating and suffocating the 28-year-old pastor in his church office during a robbery attempt.

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 ...

1 day ago · Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, received a lethal injection and was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. CST at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. He was convicted of the 2011 killing of the Rev. Clint ...

2 days ago · Some 13 years after he was sentenced to death for the grisly murder of Texas Rev. Clint Dobson inside his church in 2011, Steven Nelson maintains his innocence and said the late pastor's church rejected his efforts to contact Dobson's family days before he is scheduled to die by lethal injection Wednesday.

Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Name: Nelson, Steven Lawayne: TDCJ Number: 999576: Date of Birth: 02/18/1987: Date Received