A Texas man He was convicted of killing a shepherd in his church during a robbery, days after he was released from the anger management program from the court, which was scheduled to be executed on Wednesday.
Stephen Lain Nelson was sentenced to death for killing Reverend Clint Dobson, 28 in 2011, who was beaten, strangled and suffocated with a plastic bag inside the northern Baptist Church in Arlington. He claimed that Nelson strangled Dobson by placing a plastic bag on his head sitting in his office as he was writing a sermon.
He was arrested after going in the shopping sphere using the stolen credit cards of the victims, Fox Dallas I mentioned.
Texas prisoner to stand in Texas, Stephen Lene Nelson, puts a picture in a visiting cage in the Ministry of Criminal Justice in Texas outside the Livingston Unit, Texas, on December 5, 2012. Nelson is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday to kill 2011 from the priest in his church. (AP Photo/Michael Graczyk)
“It is difficult for me to understand that you did what I did to a car, a laptop and a phone,” Dobson's father, Philip Roseman, said in a statement after the referee. “The world will be absent from the leader. It is sad to know all the people who will not be helped because Clint is not here.”
Nelson is expected to receive a fatal injection on Wednesday evening in the state prison in Huntville.
Three days ago KillingNelson was released from a program to manage anger that ordered the court as part of a deal with the prosecutors in Dallas Province after he was arrested on charges of attacking his girlfriend.
Nelson had previously spent a prison time for theft, and he spent most of the teenage years in juvenile facilities after committing various crimes.
After the killing of Dobson, he was accused of breaking the head of the spray in his cell holding, which was flooded with the courtroom.
A sample of DNA links to an elderly man to the 40 -year -old
The death bed sits empty on the day of death on April 25, 1997 in Texas to stand in Huntville, Texas. (Getty Images)
He also regularly canceled handcuffs and ankle restrictions using a key that was hiding in its genitals.
In addition, while Waiting for the trialHe was accused of allegedly killing another prisoner. He has never been charged after receiving the death penalty for killing Dobson.
During the killing trial, Nelson witnessed that he had waited outside the church for 25 minutes before entering and seeing that Dobson Illiot was beaten. He insisted that Dobson was still alive.
Nelson said he took a laptop in Dobson and that one of the other two men who participated in the theft gave him the keys to Elliot cars and credit cards.
The victims were later found by Elliot's husband, part -time for the church Music MinisterWho did not get to know her immediately because she was severely beaten.
Although he insisted that he only acted as a monitoring, the prosecutors provided evidence of Nelson's fingerprints and pieces of his broken belt at the crime scene and blood victims on his sports shoes.
Texas State Prison in Huntville (Google Maps)
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His lawyer appealed the conviction, claiming that he had a bad legal representation in his trial, saying that they failed to challenge alibis from the other two men and did not provide evidence of a troubled childhood So Godm Hellolo Texas.
