Texas hangs Steven Nelson on Wednesday for the murder of a dear young pastor on Wednesday.
Nelson, who was declared dead in CT at 6:50 pm, Rio in the Northpoint Baptist Church in Earlington, in the west of Dallas. Clent Dobson was found guilty of killing.
Rio. Jeff Hood, who was Nelson’s spiritual adviser and was in the Death Chamber, said Nelson took “forever” to declare Nelson dead, which added at a news conference that “he struggled to the end. “”
Hood said Nelson refused to walk in the van, protesting his execution, which shifted him to the Hunts Wheel Unit, where the state’s execution chamber was located. Hood said Nelson’s arms were bandages that were not there to visit Nelson earlier in the day.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Amanda Harrenands – The agency, who is hanging – said he had no information about Nelson’s resistance, though he said he had gone to the chamber. He did not immediately answer any questions about the bandages.
Nelson has confessed to returning the Northpoint Baptist church but has always said that he did not kill Dobson, rather than lifting his finger at two comrades.
Dobson family members said in a statement to USA Today, “As a family, we chose to take this day instead of giving her killer time to focus on the memories of the day ” “Steven Nelson changed our lives forever, but he never occupied our minds.”
Nelson’s execution is the first in the United States this year and in Texas in 2025. The state is ready to hang another person next week on February 13, as another execution in Florida the same day.
What were Steven Nelson’s last words?
Hood said one of Nelson’s last operations is, “Strictly claiming how much he loves” his wife, who was among the execution witnesses.
According to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Nelson told him, “I always love you … our love is uncontrollable.” “I’m in peace, I’m ready to stay home. Come on, warden.”
Kleimasi workers make the last stand
Hood and Nelson’s wife, Noa DuboisFor, for, for,. Was a watchman for Nelson Tuesday night before hanging and hours before The final request of mercy. Dobos and Nelson got married last year after meeting a prisoner letter in 2020.
In his statement, the family rejected the Climens Push.
The family said in a statement, “We are familiar with his new wife, and how some of her recent activities have increased the suffering caused by her husband’s crimes.”
When an Austin American Statistman was asked-a part of the US-Today network-how his life would be after her husband’s departure, Doboos said, “It would be very difficult.”
Hood said at a press conference that Nelson had told him in the chamber that his efforts to save his life were not rude.
According to Hood, Nelson said, “Jeff you did not fail because I wanted to fight.”
What is Steven Nelson been convicted of?
Dobson, who was only 28 years old, was beaten and he was touched while the church secretary Judy Elite was severely beaten but he survived, According to the judicial record.
Nelson confessed to stealing Elliott’s car, laptop and credit card, which he used to buy gas, clothing and jewelry. Nelson says two accomplices committed the murder, testifying that he went to the church five minutes after finding the victims on the floor.
Prosecution Argued that Nelson worked aloneAnd investigators found DSN on Nelson’s shoes with both DBS Owen and Elite. Nelson’s lawyer Debate That one of his colleagues suffered injuries that were in accordance with the attack and later, his Clemensi lawyers Raised the question on authenticity The Alibis provided by the alleged colleagues.
A jury convicted Nelson for murder.
The young widow of the pastor, Laura Dobson, Scissus on the stand During Nelson’s trial, saying that he and her husband were waiting for the life they wanted to build, According to Fort Worth Star Telegram.
“We have always tried to see the good among the people,” he said. “I didn’t know that there was so much evil in the world.”
He told Dobson: “After the trial ends, no one wants to remember you, but people will definitely remember the client.”
Who was the Clent Dobson?
Dobson dreamed of his Texas church: filling it with young families and children and spreading the Gospel that changed his way to his life at the age of 8.
“I hope my ministry will reach people from all backgrounds and places,” Dobson wrote when he was a student at Beller University in the city of Wako, Texas. “I want to offer hope, and I pray that in the society around me, I will be part of peace in the lives of these people.”
Professor Robert Crele of Christian ministries in Beller met with Dobson when the future priest was only 4 years old. At the time, the University of Baptist in Houston was a priest in the Family Church of Baptist Dobson, and remembers Dobson well. Tribuling Crelech wrote about the young man.
“He has invested in his church in his childhood and as a young man, engaging in the ministry and growing as a student.”
In his statement to the USA Today, Dobson’s family said, “The client loved people, and he loved God.”
“He was always excited about the opportunity to unite the two,” he said. “The believers of social justice, they guided a diverse party and worked to ensure that everyone was relieved and welcomed in the Northape.”
The church that has now surpassed Dobson has a school and it has grown to fulfill Dobson’s dream.
“This school is full of children every day,” said Wellies. This means that this place is full of life. Well, this is what the Gospel brings and the inheritance of the client is alive. “
Another hanging this week, the next day the same day
On Thursday, Dimitius Farazir is about to become the fourth prisoner to be executed by nitrogen gas in the United States, since Alabama began using controversial procedures last year. Hood was the spiritual adviser of Kenneth Eugene Smith in January 2024 and saw the implementation of the state’s first nitrogen gas.
Texas is scheduled to execute Richard Tabler February 13. In 2004, a mutant murder, which included two back -to -back double murders. On February 13, too, Florida is ready to process James Ford In front of her 22 -month -old daughter in the brutal killings of a husband and wife.
There are currently 177 people in Death Row in Texas, According to the death penalty Information Center. Has the state 582 people hanged Since 1976.
This story has been updated with new information
