Texas is set to execute Steven Nelson by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 2011 murder of beloved pastor Clint Dobson, who was just beginning his ministerial career.

A man on death row for killing a North Texas pastor is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday evening in Huntsville.

If his execution is carried out, it will be the first in Texas since Robert Roberson’s was stayed in October after an unprecedented legal maneuver by

Nelson, 37, was convicted of the 2011 murder of the Rev. Clint Dobson in a robbery that turned fatal inside Dobson's own church just west of Dallas.

Two clergy members delivered a petition to Gov. Greg Abbott Tuesday to stop the execution of a man who killed a preacher more than a decade ago.

Steven Nelson faces execution in Texas for the murder of Pastor Clint Dobson, maintaining his innocence and highlighting his troubled past.

A North Texas man is set to be executed at the state penitentiary in Huntsville this evening despite maintaining his innocence in the 2011 murder of an Arlington pastor. Steven Nelson, 37, was sentenced to death row in 2012 for the slaying of the Rev.

Steven Nelson (pictured), 37, has maintained his innocence and has in the past offered to take a lie detector test. Which has been refused because he was an 'easy conviction'.

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