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

Anti-death penalty activist Rev. Jeff Hood, of Little Rock, Arkansas, and Noa Dubois, of Los Angeles, the wife of death row inmate Steven Nelson, at the Capitol Wednesday January 15, ...

Death row inmate Steven Nelson speaking from prison. Nelson, 37, was convicted of the 2011 murder of Clint Dobson, a 28-year-old pastor, during a robbery of the NorthPointe Baptist Church in ...

The execution Steven Nelson for the 2011 murder of Rev. Clint Dobson is tonight. ... Why is Steven Nelson on Texas death row? Dobson, who was just 28 years old, was beaten and suffocated.

There are currently 178 people on death row in Texas including Nelson, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The state has executed 582 people since 1976.

Texas death row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson poses for a photo in a visiting cage at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit outside Livingston, Texas, on Dec. 5, 2012.

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 Justice Polunsky Unit outside Livingston, Texas.

As Nelson's execution nears, USA TODAY is looking back at the crime, who Nelson is and what led him down a path ending on Death Row. What is Steven Nelson convicted of?

Steven Nelson (right) and his wife Helene Noa Dubois (left) standing on each side of a glass partition at the Allan B Polunsky Unit, the prison that houses the 169 men on Texas’ death row in ...

A death row inmate who is set to be put executed today insists he is innocent - and proclaimed that he is "not the monster they say I am." Steven Nelson, 37, wants a lie detctor to prove he is ...

Steven Nelson has spent more than a dozen years on Death Row in Texas and is to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for the murder of a pastor he insists he did not commit. “It’s hard ...