A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his own church is facing execution on Wednesday evening.
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Steven Lawayne Nelson was condemned for the 2011 killing of Rev. Clint Dobson, 28, who was beaten, strangled and suffocated with a plastic bag inside NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington. Dobson's secretary also was severely beaten and left for dead, but she survived.Nelson, 37, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Wednesday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. Nelson would be the first Texas death row inmate executed since Robert Roberson's Oct. 17, 2024,on Friday.
The victims were later found by Elliott's husband, the church's part-time music minister, who didn't immediately recognize her because she had been so severely beaten.
Marion Bowman Jr. Clint Dobson Steven Lawayne Nelson Judy Elliott Richard Lee Tabler Robert Roberson
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