Steven Lawayne Nelson (February 18, 1987 – February 5, 2025) was an American convicted murderer executed 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 …

2 days ago · HUNTSVILLE — As Steven Nelson lay on the execution gurney Wednesday evening, more than a decade after his conviction in the death of an Arlington pastor, two families bound by his actions turned ...

3 days ago · A Texas man convicted of murdering an Arlington pastor was put to death on Wednesday evening. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was sentenced to death in 2012, a year after he was found guilty of fatally ...

2 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 · Steven Lawayne Nelson was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder Clinton “Clint” Dobson, who was found dead after being viciously beaten and suffocated with a plastic bag at NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas. Nelson committed the murder while engaging in a robbery and also brutally beat another woman who was present at ...

2 days ago · Steven Nelson is set to be executed on Wednesday Nelson killed Arlington Rev. Clint Dobson in his church in 2011. It would be Texas' first execution of 2025. ARLINGTON, Texas - A man on death row ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson was executed Wednesday for killing an Arlington pastor, a crime he maintained he did not commit, though he admitted he was there for a robbery while the murder occurred ...

1 day ago · Yesterday, the State of Texas executed Steven Lawayne Nelson, a man convicted of the brutal murder of Arlington Pastor Clint Dobson. The Texas Attorney General's office stated that Nelson had ...

2 days ago · Steven Nelson took the witness stand to testify in his own defense in the brutal suffocation death of Arlington pastor Clint Dobson. Surrounded by sheriff’s deputies and with his shackles ...

4 days ago · Hélène Noa Dubois, left, poses with her new husband, Steve Nelson, a man convicted of smothering an Arlington pastor to death during a botched church robbery more than a decade ago, inside the ...