A Texas man convicted of killing a pastor ... is slated to be executed Wednesday. Steven Lawayne Nelson was sentenced to death for the 2011 murder of Rev. Clint Dobson, 28, who was beaten ...

FILE - Texas death row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson poses for a photo in a visiting cage at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit outside Livingston, Texas, on Dec. 5, 2012.

Steven Lawayne Nelson, a Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas pastor in his church during a robbery over a decade ago, was executed Wednesday evening at the state penitentiary ...

the second execution in the U.S. this year and the first of four scheduled in Texas over the next three months. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, received a lethal injection and was pronounced dead at 6: ...