TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICEDeath Row Inmate Information
Name: Nelson, Steven Lawayne
TDCJ Number: 999576
Date of Birth: 02/18/1987
Date Received: 10/16/2012
Age (when Received): 25
Education Level (Highest Grade Completed): 11
Date of Offense: 03/03/2011
Age (at the time of Offense): 24
County: Tarrant
Race: Black
Gender: Male
Hair Color: Black
Height (in Feet and Inches): 5′ 7″
Weight (in Pounds): 164
Eye Color: Brown
Native County: Pontatoz
Native State: Oklahoma
Prior Occupation: Laborer
Prior Prison Record: #1440381 - State jail offense for Theft, discharged upon expiration of sentence on November 5, 2007. #1550504 - State jail offense for Burglary of a Building, discharged upon expiration of sentence on April 16, 2010.
Summary of Incident: Subject and two codefendants entered the church to rob the victims of their personal items. The pastor had been bound and suffocated with a plastic bag, additionally with blunt force trauma to his head, face, back, shoulder, arms and hands. The female victim had massive head trauma but was alive.
Co-Defendants: Anthony Gregory Springs and Clifford Jefferson
Race and Gender of Victim: White male
