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

The pastor's young widow, Laura Dobson, sobbed on the stand during Steven Nelson's murder trial, saying: 'I didn't know this much evil existed in the world.'

A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his own church during a robbery was facing execution on Wednesday, the second scheduled execution in the U.S. so far this year.

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.

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.

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

A Texas man is to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 2011 murder of a pastor that he insists he did not commit.

Steven Nelson was convicted and sentenced to death for the 2011 murder of Clint Dobson at NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington. He is set to be executed on Wednesday.