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.'

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,

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

A man on death row for killing a North Texas pastor is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday evening in Huntsville.

If his execution is carried out, it will be the first in Texas since Robert Roberson’s was stayed in October after an unprecedented legal maneuver by

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.

A Texas man is to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 2011 murder of a pastor that he insists he did not commit.