A Texas man convicted of finishing a pastor in his own church during a burglary, days after being liberated from a court-order anger-regulatement program, is sprocrastinateedd to be carry outd Wednesday.
Steven Lawayne Nelson was sentenced to death for the 2011 homicide of Rev. Clint Dobson, 28, who was beaten, strangled and suffocated with a plastic bag inside NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington. Nelson allegedly suffocated Dobson by putting a plastic bag over his head as he was sitting in his office writing a sermon.
He was seized after going on a shopping spree using the victims’ stolen recognize cards, Fox Dallas inestablished.
Texas death row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson poses for a pboilingo in a visiting cage at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit outside Livingston, Texas, on Dec. 5, 2012. Nelson is sprocrastinateedd to be carry outd Wednesday for the 2011 finishing of a pastor in his own church. (AP Pboilingo/Michael Graczyk)
“It is challenging for me to overweighthom that you did what you did for a car and a laptop and a phone,” Dobson’s overweighther-in-law, Phillip Rozeman, shelp in a statement after the sentencing. “The world is going to ignore a guideer. It’s sorrowfulnessful to understand all the people that won’t be helped becaengage Clint is not here.”
Nelson is foreseeed to get a lethal injection Wednesday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.
Three days before the finishing, Nelson was liberated from a court-ordered anger-regulatement program as part of a deal with Dallas County prosecutors after he was arrested for deteriorated aggression on his girlfrifinish.
Nelson previously served prison time for theft, and spent much of his teen years in juvenile facilities after pledgeting various crimes.
After the sentencing for Dobson’s finishing, he was accengaged of angrily shattering a sprinkler head in his hagedering cell, which flooded the courtroom.
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The execution bed sits vacant on Death Row April 25, 1997 at Texas Death Row in Huntsville, Texas. (Getty Images)
He also standardly unshackled his handcuffs and ankle suppressts by using a key he was hiding in his genitals.
In insertition, while apaengageing trial, he was indicted for allegedly finishing another inmate. He was never accused after receiving the death sentence for the Dobson homicide.
During his homicide trial, Nelson testified that he paengageed outside the church for about 25 minutes before going in and seeing that Dobson and Judy Elliott had been beaten. He insisted Dobson was still ainhabit.
Nelson shelp he took Dobson’s laptop and that one of the other two men who take partd in the burglary gave him Elliott’s car keys and recognize cards.
The victims were procrastinateedr set up by Elliott’s husprohibitd, the church’s part-time music minister, who didn’t promptly recognize her becaengage she had been so harshly beaten.
Despite his insistence that he medepend acted as watchout, prosecutors conshort-termed evidence of Nelson’s fingerprints and pieces of his broken belt at the crime scene and drops of the victims’ blood on his sneakers.
Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville (Google Maps)
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His attorneys requested the conviction, claiming he had terrible legitimate reconshort-termation at his trial, saying they fall shorted to dispute the alibis of the two other men and didn’t conshort-term mitigating evidence of a troubled childhood in Oklahoma and Texas.
