Last time we checked in with Steven Lawayne Nelson, the scent of flame retardant and his screams were carried into the courtroom shortly after the jury handed him a death sentence. In October, the ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson, a Texas death row inmate who murdered Dallas area pastor Reverend Clint Dobson during a church robbery, was executed on Wednesday night.

Tarrant County jailers are breathing a collective sigh of relief: Ladies and gentlemen, Steven Lawayne Nelson has left the building. Convicted and sentenced to death for suffocating a 28-year-old ...

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 ...

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.

FILE - 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.

Steven Lawayne Nelson was condemned for the 2011 killing of Rev. Clint Dobson, 28, who was beaten, strangled and suffocated with a plastic bag inside NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington.

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.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his church during a robbery was put to death Wednesday evening, the second execution in the U.S. this year ...