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.

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.

Steven Lawayne Nelson was convicted of murder after suffocating a pastor in his own church during a robbery, as well as beating the church secretary, has been put to death overnight