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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit yesterday denied<\/a> a stay of execution for Keith Nelson. According to the DOJ Press Release<\/a> of June 15, “Keith Dwayne Nelson kidnapped a 10-year-old girl rollerblading in front of her home, and in a forest behind a church, raped her and strangled her to death with a wire.”<\/p>\n

Nelson now claims he will suffer too much pain in the very<\/em> brief interval between the time he is injected with a massive overdose of pentobarbital and the time he becomes insensate to pain as a result. Both the court of appeals decision and the district court decision are based on the Supreme Court’s July 14 ruling<\/a> regarding other murderers in the same civil case that the plaintiffs are not likely to succeed on the merits of their Eighth Amendment claim.<\/p>\n

Two years ago, upon completion of the regular appeals, the Kansas City Star had this article<\/a> by Tony Rizzo.<\/p>\n

Nelson, now 44, kidnapped Pamela Butler, who was rollerblading near her house when Nelson grabbed her, threw her into a pickup truck and sped away.<\/p>\n

Two of her sisters witnessed the kidnapping, including Casey Eaton, who in 2017 was fatally shot<\/a> near where Pamela had been taken.<\/p>\n

Several days after Pamela was kidnapped, her body was found in a wooded area in Grain Valley. Nelson was the subject of a widely-publicized manhunt, and his arrest was broadcast live on television.<\/p>\n

Nelson was linked to the crime by DNA, and in 2001 he pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Kansas City to a charge of interstate kidnapping resulting in death.<\/p>\n

He was subsequently sentenced to death. At his sentencing hearing, Nelson showed no remorse and unleashed a \u201cprofanity-laden tirade\u201d in court, according to Wednesday\u2019s appeals court ruling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For many years, the single-drug method with pentobarbital was touted by inmates challenging other methods as the superior method that it was unconstitutional for a state not<\/em> to adopt in lieu of the one it had. So of course when a jurisdiction adopts it, the capital defense bar digs up an expert who will swear it is extremely painful, contradicting the defense experts in the earlier cases.<\/p>\n

Is there any chance that Nelson will suffer even 1% of the pain that Pamela suffered? I doubt it. I expect he will experience considerably less pain in death than the average law-abiding person who dies of disease, accident, or murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit yesterday denied a stay of execution for Keith Nelson. According to the DOJ Press Release of June 15, “Keith Dwayne Nelson kidnapped a 10-year-old girl rollerblading in front of her home, and in a forest behind a church, raped her and strangled her to death with a wire.” Nelson now claims he will suffer too much pain in the very brief interval between the time he is injected with a massive overdose of pentobarbital and the time he becomes insensate to pain as a result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-penalty"],"yoast_head":"\nUSCA-DC Denies Stay for Child Killer - Crime & Consequences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=1888\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"USCA-DC Denies Stay for Child Killer - Crime & Consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. 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