3 days ago · The Rev. Clint Dobson, 28, was murdered in 2011 during a robbery at Northpointe Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas. Steven Nelson, who confessed to participating in the robbery but claimed his ...

3 days ago · The 2011 murder of North Texas pastor Clint Dobson. Arlington police said they were called to the church after a friend of an employee arrived to find a locked door.

6 days ago · Steven Lawayne Nelson was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder Clinton “Clint” Dobson, who was found dead after being viciously beaten and suffocated with a plastic bag at NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas. Nelson committed the murder while engaging in a robbery and also brutally beat another woman who was present at ...

2 days ago · Steven Lawayne Nelson was condemned for the 2011 killing of Rev. Clint Dobson, 28, who was beaten, strangled and suffocated with a plastic bag inside NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington.

2 days ago · Nelson was convicted of killing Clint Dobson and assaulting Judy Elliot during a robbery at NorthPointe Baptist Church. Nelson's execution is the second in the U.S. this year and the first in Texas.

2 days ago · HUNTSVILLE, Texas – Texas executed Steven Nelson Feb. 5 for the 2011 murder of Clint Dobson, pastor of NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington. Nelson was sentenced to die after a Tarrant County jury found him guilty of capital murder for beating and suffocating the 28-year-old pastor in his church office during a robbery attempt.

3 days ago · Dobson’s DNA and Elliott’s DNA were found on Nelson’s shoes, and metal studs from Nelson’s belt were found at the crime scene. “We miss Clint every day,” the Dobson family wrote in a ...

2 days ago · He was convicted of the 2011 killing of the Rev. Clint Dobson, a 28-year-old pastor who was beaten, strangled and suffocated with a plastic bag inside NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington. The ...

2 days ago · Nelson, 37, was put to death by lethal injection for smothering Clint Dobson, a 28-year-old pastor and husband, during a botched robbery at NorthPointe Baptist Church in 2011. A Tarrant County ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson (February 18, 1987 – February 5, 2025) was an American convicted executed for the 2011 murder of 28-year-old Arlington pastor Clinton "Clint" Dobson in Texas. Nelson was found guilty of the murder of Dobson who was smothered to death during a robbery bid at an Arlington church on March 3, 2011, and therefore sentenced to …