Steven Lawayne Nelson was executed via lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, for the 2011 murder of Reverand Clint Dobson while his wife and dog watched.

A man claiming his innocence won't get his final meal due to the previous large order of another death row inmate

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 Nelson for the 2011 murder of the Rev. Clint Dobson Wednesday night. It is the second execution of the year in the nation.

Steven Lawayne Nelson was handed the death penalty for killing of the 28-year-old during a robbery gone wrong - having acknowledged that he had shown up to North Pointe Baptist Church, in Arlington - a city between Fort Worth and Dallas, Texas.

A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his church during a robbery was put to death Wednesday evening, the second execution in the U.S. this year and the first of four scheduled in Texas over the next three months.