HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his church during a robbery was put to death Wednesday evening, the second execution in the US this year and the first of four scheduled in Texas over the next three months.
Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, received a lethal injection and was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. CST at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. He was convicted of the 2011 killing of the Rev. Clint Dobson, a 28-year-old pastor who was beaten, strangled and suffocated with a plastic bag inside NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington. The church's secretary, Judy Elliott, 67, was severely beaten but survived.
'Bradley Elliott, whose mother Judy survived the attack, said: 'I hope that today as Mr. Nelson took his last breath that he was greeted by the same loving and gracious Savior that has stood by us through all we have been a part of.' The statement added: 'Mr. Nelson, we forgive you and hope to see you when we are called home from here.'Nelson was a laborer and high school dropout with a long history of legal trouble and arrests that started as early as age 6.
Man Is Executed For The Killing Of Pastor During Robbery At Church
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