Steven Lawayne Nelson was condemned for the 2011 killing of the Rev. Clint Dobson at a Baptist church in Arlington. Dobson’s secretary was severely beaten and left for dead but survived the attack.

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.

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.

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.

Steven Lawayne Nelson was condemned for the 2011 killing of the Rev. Clint Dobson at a Baptist church in Arlington. Dobson’s secretary was severely beaten and left for dead but survived the attack.