22 hours ago · Who was Steven Nelson? Nelson was the first inmate to be executed in Texas this year. He was found guilty of capital murder and attempted capital murder in 2012.

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 death on October 16, …

Texas executed Steven Nelson by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 2011 murder of a beloved young pastor. Nelson, who was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. CT, was convicted of killing the Rev ...

1 day 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.

2 days ago · Steven Lawayne Nelson has maintained that while he participated unknowingly in a violent church robbery, he did not harm anyone. Steve Lawayne Nelson is set to become the first inmate executed in ...

1 day 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 ...

1 day ago · Steven Lawayne Nelson was condemned for the 2011 killing of the Rev. Clint Dobson. The 28-year-old pastor who was beaten, strangled and suffocated with a plastic bag inside NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington. Dobson’s secretary also was severely beaten and left for dead, but she survived.

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 ...

Steven Nelson Jr. (born January 22, 1993) is an American professional football cornerback for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oregon State Beavers, and was selected in the third round of the 2015 NFL draft by the Chiefs.

20 hours ago · Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was executed by lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville and was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. CST, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice confirmed to ...