Steven Lawayne Nelson has maintained that while he participated unknowingly in a violent church robbery, he did not harm anyone.

A man was executed by lethal injection in the US state of Texas on Thursday for the 2011 murder of a pastor that he insisted he did not commit. Steven Nelson, 37, spent more than a dozen years on death row for the murder of Clint Dobson,

Steven Nelson, 38, was sentenced to death in 2012, a year after he was found guilty of murdering Arlington pastor Clint Dobson.

Texas executed Steven Lawayne Nelson for the murder of Pastor Clint Dobson, with AG Ken Paxton stating that justice was served for the victims' families.

Nelson, 37, was put to death by lethal injection for smothering Clint Dobson, a 28-year-old pastor and husband, during a botched robbery at

A man convicted of beating and suffocating an Arlington pastor in his own church during a robbery was facing execution on Wednesday, the second scheduled execution in the U.S. so far this year.

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.

Steven Nelson is scheduled to be executed Wednesday, more than a decade after he was convicted of smothering a 28-year-old pastor during a botched robbery