Steven Nelson was executed on Wednesday for an Arlington church pastor's murder. Nelson killed Arlington Rev. Clint Dobson in his church in 2011. This is Texas' first execution of 2025. ARLINGTON ...

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 the murder of Dobson who was smothered to death during a robbery bid at an Arlington church on March 3, 2011, and sentenced to …

6 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 ...

2 days ago · Hélène Noa Dubois, (right) partner of death row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson, wipes away a tear as she speaks beside Rev. Jeff Hood during a news conference Nov. 15, 2024, in Arlington. A jury ...

Feb 4, 2025 · 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 ...

Feb 4, 2025 · 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 ...

Feb 5, 2025 · 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 ...

Feb 4, 2025 · Steven Nelson was convicted and sentenced to death for the 2011 murder of Clint Dobson at NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington. He is set to be executed on Wednesday.

6 days ago · A North Texas man is set to be executed at the state penitentiary in Huntsville this evening despite maintaining his innocence in the 2011 murder of an Arlington pastor. Steven Nelson, 37, was ...

Feb 3, 2025 · 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 ...