Steven Nelson is scheduled to be executed Feb. 5. A Tarrant County jury sentenced Nelson to die after convicting him in the death of the Rev. Clint Dobson.
Months after the state’s last execution was stayed amid bipartisan criticism and a separation-of-powers dispute so dire it threatened a constitutional crisis, has drawn few calls for mercy outside of those closest to him.
Nelson, 37, is by lethal injection Wednesday evening in Huntsville, more than a decade after he was convicted of smothering , a revered 28-year-old pastor and husband, during a botched robbery at an Arlington church.
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Tarrant County District Attorney Phil Sorrells, who did not prosecute the case but whose office sought to , said last fall that Nelson’s conviction was the result of “overwhelming physical and circumstantial evidence connecting him to the crime.” Courts have agreed, leaving few avenues to spare his life.
So Nelson is lobbying for himself. While he has long admitted to his role in the robbery, Nelson remains adamant he did not commit the murder and argues now he is no longer the man he was branded to be at trial: broken, violent, irredeemable.
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