A Death Row killer who brutally murdered a pastor with a plastic bag in his church uttered three chilling final words to the warden as he was executed. Steven Lawayne Nelson, a Texas death row ...

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 ...

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 Lawayane ... He was sentenced to death after he was convicted of shooting and killing a friend. Police found the victim's body in a burned out car in 2001. Following Nelson's execution ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday evening for the 2011 death of Rev. Clint Dobson and assault of his assistant Judy Elliott. Nelson, who was a native of ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. FILE - Texas death row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson poses for a photo in a visiting cage at the Texas ...

A Death Row killer who brutally murdered a pastor with a plastic bag in his church uttered three chilling last words as he was executed. Steven Lawayne Nelson, a Texas death row inmate, killed Dallas ...

A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his own church during a robbery was facing execution on Wednesday, the second scheduled execution in the U.S. so far this year.