HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his church during a robbery was put to death Wednesday evening, the second execution in the U.S.
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his church during a robbery was put to death Wednesday evening, the second execution in the U.S. this year and the first of four scheduled in Texas over the next three months.
“It is what it is,” Nelson said. When he added that she should “enjoy life,” the woman, Helene Noa Dubois, held up to the window a white service dog that she was allowed to bring into the witness area.As the lethal dose of the sedative pentobarbital began to be administered, he told Dubois, “Let me go to sleep.” The drug appeared to take effect as he said the word, “Love,” then gasped twice and appeared to try to hold his breath.
Relatives of the victims declined to speak with reporters and had released statements before the execution was carried out. Nelson was a laborer and high school dropout with a long history of legal trouble and arrests that started as early as age 6. Nelson recently married while on death row and had pleaded for mercy, claiming that he had only served as a robbery lookout and blamed two other men for killing Dobson.
Trial evidence showed Nelson’s fingerprints and pieces of his broken belt at the crime scene, drops of the victims’ blood on his sneakers, and surveillance video showing him driving Elliott’s car and using her credit cards. Investigators also said the two men Nelson blamed for the attack had alibis.
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