A Texas Man Condemned for killing a pastor in his own church during a robbery, days after he has been released from a court control program before the court, is planned to be executed on Wednesday.
Steven Lawayne Nelson was sentenced to death for the murder of Rev. Clint Dobson of 2011, 28, who was beaten, strangled and suffocated with a plastic bag in North Pointed Baptist Church in Arlington. Nelson is said to have suffocated Dobson by placing a plastic bag over his head while he was sitting in his office and writing a sermon.
He was taken prisoner after he was shopped with shopping with the stolen credit cards of the victims, Fox Dallas reported.
Texas Death Row prisoner Steven Lawayne Nelson poses for a photo in a visiting cage on the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit outside Livingston, Texas, on December 5, 2012. Nelson will be performed on Wednesday for the murder of a murder in 2011 in his own church. (AP Photo/Michael Graczyk)
“It’s hard for me to understand that you did what you did for a car and a laptop and a phone,” said Dobson’s father -in -law, Phillip Rozeman, in a statement after the conviction. “The world is going to miss a leader. It is sad to know all the people who will not be helped because Clint is not there.”
Nelson is expected to receive a deadly injection on Wednesday evening in the State fine in Huntsville.
Three days before killingNelson was released from a court management program ordered by the court as part of a deal with public prosecutors in Dallas County after he was arrested for serious abuse on his girlfriend.
Nelson previously served prison for theft and spent many of his teenage years in youth facilities after committing various crimes.
After the condemnation for the murder of Dobson, he was accused of angry a sprinkler head in his Houdcel, who flooded the courtroom.
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The execution bed is empty on the death cell 25 April 1997 in the Dodcel Texas in Huntsville, Texas. (Getty Images)
He also regularly disabled his handcuffs and single protections by using a key that he hid in his genitals.
In addition, while Awaiting testHe was sued for the killing of another prisoner. He was never charged after receiving the death penalty for the murder of Dobson.
During his murder process, Nelson testified that he waited about 25 minutes outside the church before he entered and saw that Dobson and Judy Elliott were defeated. He insisted that Dobson was still alive.
Nelson said he took Dobson’s 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, the part -time of the church Music ministerWho did not immediately recognize her because she was so seriously beaten.
Despite his insistence that he only looked out, prosecutors presented the proof of Nelson’s fingerprints and pieces of his broken belt on the crime scene and drops of the blood of the victims on his sneakers.
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His lawyers appealed the conviction and claimed that he had poor legal representation during his trial, and said they had not disputed the alibis of the other two men and did not present mitigating proof of a troubled youth So Godmm Hellolo and Texas.
