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 · Texas death row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson poses for a photo in a visiting cage at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit outside Livingston, Texas, on Dec. 5, 2012. Nelson is ...

Feb 4, 2025 · 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 ...

5 days ago · Why is Steven Nelson on Texas death row? Dobson, who was just 28 years old, was beaten and suffocated. Church secretary Judy Elliot, 69, was severely beaten but survived, according to court records .

6 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. ... Death row inmates in ...

6 days ago · Death Row Information Offender Information Last Statement. Date of Execution: February 5, 2025. Offender: Nelson, Steven Lawayne #999576. Last Statement: I will always love you no matter, that our love is uncontrollable there is no definition and no felling. I’m thankful and grateful. It is what it is. Always live for me and enjoy life.

6 days ago · news Crime. Texas executes Steven Nelson for 2011 murder of Arlington pastor in year’s first execution The 37-year-old was sentenced to death by a Tarrant County jury in 2012 for smothering a ...

Feb 4, 2025 · Steven Nelson was convicted of a Texas pastor's murder. Now he's about to be executed. ... says he has grown in the 13 years he's been on Death Row. Nelson married his wife, Noa Dubois, in 2020 ...

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...

Subject and two codefendants entered the church to rob the victims of their personal items. The pastor had been bound and suffocated with a plastic bag, additionally with blunt force trauma to his head, face, back, shoulder, arms and hands. The female victim had massive head trauma but was alive. Texas Department of Criminal Justice.