Feb 4, 2025 · The Rev. Clint Dobson, 28, was murdered in 2011 during a robbery at Northpointe Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas. Steven Nelson, who confessed to participating in the robbery but claimed his ...

6 days ago · Nelson was convicted of killing Clint Dobson and assaulting Judy Elliot during a robbery at NorthPointe Baptist Church. Nelson's execution is the second in the U.S. this year and the first in Texas.

Feb 4, 2025 · “My heart is with the family and friends of Pastor Clint Dobson, as well as the loved ones of every victim who suffered at the hands of this monster. Ensuring that Texas law is upheld, and capital sentences are carried out is a somber responsibility. Victims deserve justice and criminals who commit heinous crimes such as this must be punished.”

Steven Lawayne Nelson (February 18, 1987 – February 5, 2025) was an American convicted murderer, executed for the 2011 murder of 28-year-old Arlington pastor Clinton "Clint" Dobson in Texas. Nelson was found guilty of the murder of Dobson who was smothered to death during a robbery bid at an Arlington church on March 3, 2011, and sentenced to …

6 days ago · 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.

6 days ago · A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his church during a robbery was put to death ... He was convicted of the 2011 killing of the Rev. Clint Dobson, a 28-year ...

Feb 4, 2025 · Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was sentenced to death in 2012, a year after he was found guilty of fatally beating and suffocating NorthPointe Baptist Church Pastor Clint Dobson. The Texas Department ...

6 days ago · Texas is set to execute Steven Nelson by lethal injection Wednesday for the 2011 murder of a beloved pastor who was just beginning his ministerial career. Nelson, 37, was convicted for the murder...

6 days ago · Nelson, 37, was put to death by lethal injection for smothering Clint Dobson, a 28-year-old pastor and husband, during a botched robbery at NorthPointe Baptist Church in 2011. A Tarrant County ...

Feb 4, 2025 · Nelson, 37, was convicted of the 2011 murder of the Rev. Clint Dobson in a robbery that turned fatal inside Dobson's own church, NorthPointe Baptist just west of Dallas in Arlington, Texas.