AND Texas man Convicted of killing pastor in his own church during the robbery, a few days after being released from anger management program, is scheduled for Wednesday.
Steven Lawayne Nelson was sentenced to death for the murder of Reverend Clint Dobson, 28, 2011, which was beaten, strangled and stifled with a plastic bag in the Northpoint Baptism Church in Arlington. Nelson allegedly stifled Dobson by placing a plastic bag over his head as he sat in his office writing a sermon.
He was captured after starting shopping using stolen credit cards of victims, Fox Dallas reported.
The Death Row Steven Lawayne Nelson Nelson Defense Consent for a Cage photo in a guest in Texas Department of Criminal Justice of the Half Unit Outside Livingston, Texas, December 5, 2012. Nelson should be executed on Wednesday for Pastor 2011 murder 2011 in his church. (AP Photo/Michael Graczyk)
“It’s hard for me to understand that you did what you did for the car and a laptop and the phone,” said Dobson’s father -in -law, Phillip Rozeman, in a statement after the verdict was imposed. “The world will miss the leader. It is unfortunate to know that all the people who will not be helped because Clint is not here.”
Nelson is expected to receive a deadly injection at the Huntsville State Penitentiary on Wednesday night.
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.
Nelson had previously served in prison for theft, and spent most of his teenage years in juvenile facilities after committing various crimes.
After the Jobon’s murder verdict, he was accused of angrily breaking the sprayer’s head into his cell that overwhelmed the courtroom.
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The executive bed is empty at the death penalty on April 25, 1997 at Texas Death Row in Hentsville, Texas. (Getty Images)
He also regularly unbuttoned foxes and ankle limitations using a key hiding in his genitals.
Plus, doc Awaiting trialHe was charged with allegedly killing another prisoner. He was never charged after receiving his death sentence for Dobson’s murder.
During the murder trial, Nelson testified that he was waiting in front of the church for about 25 minutes before he entered and saw that Dobson and Judy Elliott had been beaten. He insisted that Dobson was still alive.
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.
The victims were later found by Elliott’s husband, a part -time church Minister of Musicwho did not recognize her immediately because he beat her so hard.
Despite his insistence that he was only acting as a spectator, prosecutors presented evidence of Nelson’s fingers and pieces of his broken belt at the crime scene and the fall of the blood of victims on sneakers.
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His 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 present the alleviation of evidence of a troubled childhood in Oklahoma and Texas.
