"I owe Steven the woman I am today ... in early January so she could more easily visit Nelson at Texasdeath row ...
Steven Nelson, 37, was sentenced to death in 2012, a year after he was found guilty of fatally beating and suffocating NorthPointe Baptist Church pastor Clint Dobson.
It comes as a death row inmate is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday for the murder of a North Texas pastor.