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Some 13 years after he was sentenced to death for the grisly murder of Texas Rev. Clint Dobson inside his church in 2011, Steven Nelson maintains his innocence and said the late pastor's church rejected his efforts to contact Dobson's family days before he is scheduled to die by lethal injection Wednesday.
"My foundation might have been cracked 13 years ago but my foundation is whole now. I'm not the monster they say that I am," Nelson said in an interview with NewsNation's Ashleigh Banfield.
Nelson was convicted of suffocating Dobson in March 2011 when the pastor was just 28, according to The Associated Press. He also reportedly beat Dobson's 69-year-old secretary, Judy Elliot, so badly that she suffered memory problems and a broken jaw. Prosecutors painted him as a "predator" who forced Dobson and Elliott to tie each other up before they were suffocated and battered.
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"My foundation might have been cracked 13 years ago but my foundation is whole now. I'm not the monster they say that I am," Nelson said in an interview with NewsNation's Ashleigh Banfield.
Nelson was convicted of suffocating Dobson in March 2011 when the pastor was just 28, according to The Associated Press. He also reportedly beat Dobson's 69-year-old secretary, Judy Elliot, so badly that she suffered memory problems and a broken jaw. Prosecutors painted him as a "predator" who forced Dobson and Elliott to tie each other up before they were suffocated and battered.
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Steven Nelson, convicted of killing pastor inside church, to be executed after failed appeals
Some 13 years after he was sentenced to death for the grisly murder of Texas Rev Clint Dobson inside his church in 2011, Steven Nelson maintains his innocence and said the late pastor s church
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