The Texas convict issues the last message to his wife before execution over the murder of pastor

AND Texas man Convicted of killing Pastor in his church during the robbery, a few days after being released from anger management program, on Wednesday night, was killed to death.

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was declared dead at 18:50 local time after a Letter injection conducted at the Huntsville State Penitentiary.

Prior to the injection, Nelson repeatedly told his wife, who was looking through a window at a small distance from him with a white service dog who was allowed to enter into the witness area, that he loved her and grateful and grateful, the Associated reported Press.

“That’s what it is,” Nelson said during his opportunity for final words. “I’m not afraid. I’m in peace. We drive, the manager.”

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As a deadly dose of sedative pentobarbil dose was given, Nelson said Helene Noah Dubois, who recently married while he was in prison, “Let me sleep.” The drug seemed to take effect when the word “love” said, and then he sighed twice and seemed to have tried to hold his breath. The heads, shoulders and hands trembled for a few seconds before all the movement stopped. He was declared dead 24 minutes later.

Nelson was sentenced to death for the murder of Reverend Clint Dobson, 28, 2011, which was beaten, strangled and stifled with a plastic bag inside the Northpoint Baptism Church in Arlington. Nelson killed Dobson while sitting in his office by writing a sermon.

Nelson claimed that he only served as a robbery and blamed two more men for the murder of Dobson. He said he waited in front of the church for about 25 minutes before he entered and saw that Dobson and church secretary were Judy Elliott were beaten. He insisted that Dobson was still alive at the time.

Nelson said he took the Dobson laptop and that one of the other two men who participated in the robbery gave him Elliott’s car keys and credit cards. Two victims were located by Elliott’s husband, a church minister of music, who did not recognize her immediately because she was so difficult to beat up, Associate Press reported.

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Nelson was captured after starting shopping using stolen credit cards of victims, Fox Dallas reported.

Three days before murderNelson was released from the anger management program that was ordered court as part of the Dallas Prosecutor’s agreement after being arrested for a difficult attack on his girlfriend.

The victims’ cousins ​​refused to talk to reporters and published statements earlier on Wednesday.

“As a family, we have chosen this day to focus on the great memories of Clint, and we do not give the time to his killer,” Dobson’s family said in her statement. “Steven Nelson changed our lives forever, but he never took our minds …. We miss Clint every day. We miss his laughter and wit, advice and love for us.”

Bradley Elliott, whose mother Judy survived the attack, said: “I hope that today, while Mr. Nelson’s last inhaled that he was greeted by the same love and gracious Savior, who stood through everything we were part of us.” : “Mr. Nelson, we forgive you and hope to see you when we call us home from here.”

Nelson’s lawyers complained about condemnation, claiming that he had a poor legal representation at the trial, saying that they failed to challenge the alibis of two other people and did not make evidence of evidence of a troubled childhood in Oklahoma and Texas.

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice did not immediately respond to the request for information on Nelson’s last meal.

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Nelson’s execution is the second in the US this year, and the first of four scheduled in Texas in the next three months.

Fox News’ Louis Casiano and Associated Press contributed to this report.