Steven Lawayne Nelson (born February 18, 1987) is an American convicted murderer on death row 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, 2012.

21 hours 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. (AP Photo/Michael Graczyk, File)

18 hours 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 ...

18 hours ago · Nelson would be the first Texas death row inmate executed since Robert Roberson’s Oct. 17, 2024, execution date was delayed in what would have been the first in the U.S. tied to a diagnosis of ...

1 day ago · 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 ...

1 day ago · Texas death row inmate to be executed Wednesday 00:52. A man convicted for the murder of an Arlington pastor is set to be executed on Wednesday. Steven Nelson, 37, was sentenced to death in 2012 ...

2 days ago · ARLINGTON, Texas - A man on death row for killing a North Texas pastor is scheduled to be executed this week. Records from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice show that Steven Nelson is set ...

4 days ago · The 28-year-old Dobson was suffocated to death, and a 69-year-old church secretary was brutally beaten but survived. Texas death row inmate Steven Nelson is interviewed during his final days. The inmate says his attempts to …

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.