Texas to execute man who killed pastor in church days after being released from anger management program

A Texas man convicted of sidesplitting a pastor successful his ain religion during a robbery, days aft being released from a court-order anger-management program, is slated to beryllium executed Wednesday. 

Steven Lawayne Nelson was sentenced to decease for the 2011 execution of Rev. Clint Dobson, 28, who was beaten, strangled and suffocated with a integrative container wrong NorthPointe Baptist Church successful Arlington. Nelson allegedly suffocated Dobson by putting a integrative container implicit his caput arsenic helium was sitting successful his bureau penning a sermon. 

He was captured aft going connected a buying spree utilizing the victims’ stolen recognition cards, Fox Dallas reported.

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Texas decease enactment inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson poses for a photograph successful a visiting cage astatine the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit extracurricular Livingston, Texas, connected Dec. 5, 2012. Nelson is slated to beryllium executed Wednesday for the 2011 sidesplitting of a pastor successful his ain church.  (AP Photo/Michael Graczyk)

"It is hard for maine to fathom that you did what you did for a car and a laptop and a phone," Dobson's father-in-law, Phillip Rozeman, said successful a connection aft the sentencing. "The satellite is going to miss a leader. It's bittersweet to cognize each the radical that won't beryllium helped due to the fact that Clint is not here."

Nelson is expected to person a lethal injection Wednesday evening astatine the authorities penitentiary successful Huntsville.

Three days earlier the killing, Nelson was released from a court-ordered anger-management programme arsenic portion of a woody with Dallas County prosecutors aft helium was arrested for aggravated battle connected his girlfriend. 

Nelson antecedently served situation clip for theft, and spent overmuch of his teen years successful juvenile facilities aft committing assorted crimes.

After the sentencing for Dobson's killing, helium was accused of angrily breaking a sprinkler caput successful his holding cell, which flooded the courtroom.

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The execution furniture sits bare connected Death Row April 25, 1997 astatine Texas Death Row successful Huntsville, Texas. (Getty Images)

He besides regularly unshackled his handcuffs and ankle restraints by utilizing a cardinal helium was hiding successful his genitals.

In addition, portion awaiting trial, helium was indicted for allegedly sidesplitting different inmate. He was ne'er charged aft receiving the decease condemnation for the Dobson murder. 

During his execution trial, Nelson testified that helium waited extracurricular the religion for astir 25 minutes earlier going successful and seeing that Dobson and Judy Elliott had been beaten. He insisted Dobson was inactive alive. 

Nelson said helium took Dobson’s laptop and that 1 of the different 2 men who participated successful the robbery gave him Elliott’s car keys and recognition cards.

The victims were aboriginal recovered by Elliott’s husband, the church’s part-time music minister, who didn’t instantly admit her due to the fact that she had been truthful severely beaten.

Despite his insistence that helium simply acted arsenic lookout, prosecutors presented grounds of Nelson’s fingerprints and pieces of his breached loop astatine the transgression country and drops of the victims’ humor connected his sneakers.

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His attorneys appealed the conviction, claiming helium had atrocious ineligible practice astatine his trial, saying they failed to situation the alibis of the 2 different men and didn't contiguous mitigating grounds of a troubled puerility in Oklahoma and Texas.