Death Penalty Reserved for Blacks who Kill Whites: Texas Black Man Convicted in White pastor's killing gets Death Sentence

Since 1977, the overwhelming majority of death row defendants (77%) have been executed for killing white victims, even though Blacks make up about half of all homicide victims. [MORE]  From [HERE] and [HERE] A Black man convicted of capital murder in the strangulation death of a pastor in a north Texas church was sentenced to death on Tuesday. A jury in state District Judge Mike Thomas' court deliberated for about 90 minutes before deciding on the sentence for Steven Lawayne Nelson, 25, of Arlington, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported.

Nelson faced either the death penalty or life in prison without parole for killing the Rev. Clint Dobson at his Baptist church in Arlington in March 2011. Dobson was beaten, strangled with a computer extension cord and suffocated with a plastic bag. A church secretary was also brutally beaten and left for dead but survived.

Prosecutors said Nelson, a convicted felon, killed the pastor because he wanted to steal a car that he had seen in the church parking lot. Nelson was convicted of capital murder last week by the same jury in Fort Worth that decided on his death sentence.

At trial, prosecutors showed text messages that Nelson sent the day after the killing. In one, he wrote: "I don't mean to brag. I'm a monster," according to The Associated Press.

Nelson's family members testified that he had a troubled childhood in which he suffered from attention deficit disorder and dysfunctional relationships, according to AP.

Defense attorneys asked jurors to spare Nelson's life, saying he didn't get the proper help he needed when he was growing up.

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Steven was also wrongly convicted. One of the code tenants to this day gloats on the set up in his music and on Facebook. Justice will be served. Nelson went down because just like always us other wasn't thinking about what he needed that's why he went to trial with court appointed lawyers while springs rolled in with Bob Gill. Springs had support from his family as well as his music family which nobody seemed o mention at the time. He was in a group called 4way and was I involved with the then famous GS Boys. Well known people who would easily help him over his tracks easily. The best evidence yet though? Elliot claimed 2 men attacked her. Words from thenonly living eye witness shouldn't lie should it? Spring an also claimed he was there at the scene of the crime but was supposed to be the look out yet his story changed later saying he wasn't there at all he was later picked up at a gas station. Also at the trial they claimed nelson was arrested from Nixon's home on the morning of March 5th which couldnt possibly be true because nelson was arrested from his mother's apartment in Arlington Texas in the afternoon. Melons mother Recieved the call about him being arrested shortly after attending and leaving a fumeral with several close relatives. Her home had been torn apart by 10pm that night. The codependent stated he wasn't there yet told multiple friends he'd been there. These things are recorded on Facebook for everyone's eyes. Yet know one caught these things?? Springs openly brags about the set up an having good lawyers and getting off the hook for the murder case. If the right people saw this seven nelson wouldn't be on death row. They lacked any concrete evidence connecting him to the actual killings. Yes, he had the cards and car but have you seen the record on him. He obviously likes things that aren't his but to label him a murder because springs and the other guy had too good of lawyers to fight is just a big sack of crap.