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 sentenced to death on ...

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 · In this Dec. 5, 2012, photo, 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.

5 days ago · Steven Lawayne Nelson was sentenced to death for the 2011 murder of Rev. Clint Dobson, 28, who was beaten, strangled and suffocated with a plastic bag inside NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington.

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

5 days ago · Steven Lawayne Nelson was condemned to death for the 2011 killing of Reverend Clint Dobson, 28, who was beaten, strangled and suffocated with a plastic bag inside NorthPointe Baptist Church in ...

4 days 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 ...

5 days ago · Barring a last-minute stay, Steven Lawayne Nelson is set to be executed Wednesday evening for killing an Arlington pastor, a crime he has maintained he did not commit, though he admitted he was ...

Oct 9, 2012 · Steven Lawayne Nelson, 25, is facing the death penalty or life in prison without parole for the suffocation death of the Rev. Clint Dobson at Arlington’s NorthPointe Baptist Church in March 2011. Nelson also beat the church secretary so severely that she suffered a broken jaw and memory problems, and then he stole her car and other items.

5 days ago · Barring a last-minute stay, Steven Lawayne Nelson is set to be executed Wednesday evening for killing an Arlington pastor, a crime he has maintained he did not commit, though he admitted he was ...