Steven Nelson, convicted of the 2011 murder of a North Texas pastor, is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday. Activists are calling for Governor Greg Abbott to halt the execution.
A man on death row for killing a North Texas pastor is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday evening in Huntsville.Activists are calling for Governor Greg Abbott to halt the execution.In 2012, Nelson was convicted and sentenced to death for the 2011 murder of Clint Dobson at NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington.Prosecutors said Nelson suffocated the young pastor by putting a plastic bag over his head as he was sitting in his office writing a sermon.
Nelson’s attorneys appealed on claims of bad legal representation at his trial and sentencing, saying this lawyers did little to challenge the alibis of the other men, or present mitigating evidence of a troubled childhood in Oklahoma and Texas. His appeals have been denied by state and federal courts, and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied a stay of execution on Jan. 28. Nelson’s attorneys this week asked the U.S.
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