Steven Lawayne Nelson (born February 18, 1987) is an American convicted murderer on death row 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 death on October 16, 2012.

23 hours ago · 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. (AP Photo/Michael Graczyk, File)

19 hours ago · 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 ...

20 hours ago · There are currently 178 people on death row in Texas including Nelson, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The state has executed 582 people since 1976.

18 hours ago · Steven Lawayne Nelson was condemned to death for the 2011 killing of ... He would be the first Texas death row inmate executed since Robert Roberson's 17 October 2024 execution date was delayed in ...

1 day ago · Nelson’s execution, which also would be the first in the United States in 2025, comes at a time in which death sentences and executions in Texas have reached record lows.The growing infrequency ...

1 day ago · Texas death row inmate to be executed Wednesday 00:52. A man convicted for the murder of an Arlington pastor is set to be executed on Wednesday. Steven Nelson, 37, was sentenced to death in 2012 ...

17 hours ago · Steven Nelson poses for a photo at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston on Dec. 18, 2024. A Tarrant County jury sentenced Nelson to die after convicting him in the death of the Rev. Clint Dobson in ...

Jul 18, 2024 · ARLINGTON, Texas - A man on death row for killing a North Texas pastor is now scheduled to be executed early next year. Steven Nelson was set to die by lethal injection in October, but...

Subject and two codefendants entered the church to rob the victims of their personal items. The pastor had been bound and suffocated with a plastic bag, additionally with blunt force trauma to his head, face, back, shoulder, arms and hands. The female victim had massive head trauma but was alive. Texas Department of Criminal Justice.