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 ...

Texas executed Steven Nelson for the 2011 murder of the Rev. Clint Dobson Wednesday night. It is the second execution of the year in the nation.

The Rev. Clint Dobson had a dream for his Texas church: to fill it with young families and children and spread the gospel that had changed the course of his own life at the age of 8.

The execution Steven Nelson for the 2011 murder of Rev. Clint Dobson is tonight. His wife and a death penalty activist will be witnesses.

The execution Steven Nelson for the 2011 murder of Rev. Clint Dobson is tonight. His wife and a death penalty activist will be witnesses.

A Texas man convicted of killing a pastor in his own church during a robbery, days after being released from a court-order anger-management program, is slated to be executed Wednesday.

Nelson in 2012 was convicted of killing the Rev. Clint Dobson at NorthPointe Baptist Church, according to WFAA's previous coverage of the case.

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.

The Rev. Clint Dobson had a dream for his Texas church: to fill it with young families and children and spread the gospel that had changed the course of his own life at the age of 8. But Dobson ...

Well, that’s what the gospel brings and Clint’s legacy lives." This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Texas pastor with simple dream killed in church. Who was Clint Dobson?