Steven Nelson poses for a photo at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston on Dec. 18, ... “He was a train wreck waiting to happen,” defense attorney Bill Ray said during closing arguments.

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 Arling… ...

Nelson, 37, was convicted of the 2011 murder of the Rev. Clint Dobson in a robbery that turned fatal inside Dobson's own church just west of Dallas. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ ...

Texas is set to execute Steven Nelson by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 2011 murder of beloved pastor Clint Dobson, who was just beginning his ministerial career.

On March 3, 2011, Nelson, then 24, had planned to help rob NorthPointe Baptist Church. He told The Dallas Morning News he was the lookout for two other men that morning, but when more than 15 ...