While Nelson admits to participating in the robbery of Dobson and church secretary Judy Elliot, he claims two accomplices committed the murder. Nelson, who had a troubled childhood and criminal ...

Nelson's execution has sparked debate about the death penalty, with religious figures on both sides of the issue. Texas is set to execute Steven Nelson by lethal injection on Wednesday for the ...

KILLER Steven Nelson delivered three haunting last words before he was executed in front of his wife and dog. The inmate killed Reverend Clint Dobson inside the NorthPointe Baptist Church in ...

Texas executed Steven Nelson by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 2011 murder of a beloved young pastor. Nelson, who was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. CT, was convicted of killing the Rev ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing of the Rev. Clint Dobson — who was beaten, choked, and suffocated with a plastic bag inside NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington ...

"It was a storm waiting to happen," Antoinette McGarrahan of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center said during the sentencing phase of Nelson's trial, according to the Fort Worth Star ...