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.

Hélène Noa Dubois, (right) partner of death row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson, wipes off a tear as she speaks beside Rev. Jeff Hood during a press conference, on Friday, Nov. 15, 2024, in Arlington.

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, a Texas death row inmate, killed Dallas area pastor Reverend Clint Dobson in cold blood during a church robbery, was executed on February 5.

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,© AP Nelson tried to persuade the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.