'It kind of breaks you every day': Life on death row in Texas

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Steven Nelson has spent more than a dozen years on Death Row in Texas and is to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday 5 February for a murder which he insists he did not commit. Nelson was convicted of the 2011 murder of Clint Dobson, a 28-year-old pastor, during a robbery of the NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington, near Dallas. He acknowledges that he served as a lookout during the robbery and that he entered the church after the murder to steal some items, but says it his two accomplices, who were never brought to trial, are responsible for the murder.

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00:00It's hard at times, you know, because you're waiting to be put to death.

00:26So that kind of breaks a little part of you every day, kind of breaks you every day.

00:32And sometimes I have to catch myself, you know, for being overwhelmed and stressed out,

00:39you know, and like force myself to eat because it does that to you where you just don't want

00:43to do nothing.

00:45I'll get one of those.

00:46And then the other one.

00:47All right.

01:14There's many innocent people here on death row or in prison that shouldn't be here.

01:22That's her being a witness of my execution.

01:45It's up to her, you know, but I really don't want her to see that.

01:50Me getting pumped full of drugs and being overdosed with drugs to kill me, to make

01:55my heart stop.

01:57I think that would leave a bad impression, you know, that will override the good memories

02:02we had over the years.

02:03She'll always close her eyes and see that.

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