A Texas man was convicted of killing a pastor in his church in a robbery and was released days later from a court order anger management plan, scheduled to be executed Wednesday.
Steven Lawayne Nelson was sentenced to death in 2011 by Pastor Clint Dobson, 28, who was plastic inside North Point Baptist Church in Arlington Bag beats, strangulation and suffocation. Nelson allegedly suffocated Dobson when he sat in the office and wrote, placing a plastic bag on his head.
Fox Dallas reported he was arrested after hype about using his victim’s stolen credit card for shopping.
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Texas death row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson on December 5, 2012 at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polensky Unit outside Livingston, Texas Visit the cage to take a photo in his own church. (AP Photo/Michael Glachik)
“I have a hard time understanding what you do for cars, laptops and phones,” Dobson’s father-in-law, said in a statement after the sentence. “The world will miss a leader. It’s a pity to know everyone who won’t help because Clint isn’t here.”
Nelson is expected to have a fatal injection at Huntsville State Prison on Wednesday night.
Three days before the killing, Nelson was arrested for a serious attack on his girlfriend in part of a deal with Dallas County prosecutors.
Nelson had previously been jailed for theft and spent most of his teenage years in his teenage years after committing various crimes.
After a sentence on Dobson, he was charged with angrily breaking the sprinkler device in his cell, which flooded the court.
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The execution bed was empty on April 25, 1997 at the Texas death row in Huntsville, Texas. (Getty image)
He also often uses keys hidden in his genitals to bind handcuffs and ankle constraints.
Additionally, he was charged for allegedly killing another prisoner while awaiting trial. He has never been charged after being sentenced to death for Dobson’s murder.
In the murder, Nelson testified that he waited outside the church for about 25 minutes before going in and seeing Dobson and Judy Elliott being beaten. He insisted that Dobson was still alive.
Nelson said he took Dobson’s laptop and one of the two other men who participated in the robbery gave him Elliott’s car keys and credit card.
Later, the victim was discovered by the husband of Elliott, the church’s part-time music minister, who did not recognize her immediately because she was beaten so badly.
Despite his insistence that he was acting only as a surveillance person, prosecutors provided evidence at the crime scene to Nelson’s fingerprints and fragments of broken belts and dripped the victim’s blood on his sneakers.
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His attorney appealed the conviction, claiming he had bad legal representation at the trial, saying they did not challenge the protest certificates of two others, nor did they provide relief from the troubled childhood in Oklahoma and Texas evidence.
