The pastor's young widow, Laura Dobson, sobbed on the stand during Steven Nelson's murder trial, saying: 'I didn't know this much evil existed in the world.'

Some 13 years after he was sentenced to death for the grisly murder of Texas Rev Clint Dobson inside his church in 2011, Steven Nelson maintains his innocence and said the late pastor s church

The State of Texas executed a Black man convicted of killing a pastor during a robbery in 2011, despite his claims that while he was present during the crime he was not responsible for the murder.

Steven Lawayne Nelson has maintained that while he participated unknowingly in a violent church robbery, he did not harm anyone.

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 U.S. this year and the first of four scheduled in Texas over the next three months.

Steven Lawayne Nelson, convicted of murdering Pastor Clint Dobson during a church robbery in Arlington, Texas, was executed by lethal injection. Despite pleas for mercy, citing his role as an accomplice,

Texas is set to execute Steven Nelson by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 2011 murder of beloved pastor Clint Dobson, who was just beginning his ministerial career.