5 days ago · A Texas man convicted of murdering a pastor was put to death on Wednesday — and uttered chilling last words prior to being executed. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing ...

5 days ago · Nelson, 37, is the second death row inmate to be executed in the U.S. this year. ... Texas death row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson poses for a photo in a visiting cage at the Texas Department of ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

4 days ago · A death row inmate tried to say one final word before being executed, after beating and suffocating a pastor to death in Texas. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, received a lethal injection on Wednesday (5 February) evening, after being convicted of killing Rev. Clint Dobson in 2011.. The 28-year-old pastor had been beaten, strangled, and suffocated with a plastic bag by the murderer, inside ...

6 days ago · What will be Steven Nelson's last meal? Death row inmates in Texas cannot make requests for a special last meal, which is common in other states with the death penalty. Instead, Texas inmates must ...

4 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.

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...

Feb 4, 2025 · Nelson, 37, was convicted of the 2011 murder of the Rev. Clint Dobson in a robbery that turned fatal inside Dobson's own church, NorthPointe Baptist just west of Dallas in Arlington, Texas.