A Texas man convicted of murdering a pastor was put to death on Wednesday — and uttered chilling last words prior to being executed. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing ...

A Death Row killer who brutally murdered a pastor with a plastic bag in his church uttered three chilling final words to the warden as he was executed. Steven Lawayne Nelson, a Texas death row ...

was put to death Wednesday evening. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. local time following a lethal injection that was administered at a state penitentiary in Huntsville.

I'm at peace," he said. "Let's ride, Warden." In this Dec. 5, 2012, photo, Texas death row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson poses for a photo in a visiting cage at the Texas Department of Criminal ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson was sentenced to death for the 2011 murder of Rev. Clint Dobson, 28, who was beaten, strangled and suffocated with a plastic bag inside NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington.

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday evening for the 2011 death of Rev. Clint Dobson and assault of his assistant Judy Elliott. Nelson, who was a native of ...

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Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing ... Polunsky Unit, Texas’ death row jail, situated in Livingtson, north of Houston. The murderer spent his final moments alive ...

A Texas man convicted of murdering a pastor was put to death on Wednesday — and uttered chilling last words prior to being executed. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing ...