Another example of the bizarro world we now live in.

"Nelson pleaded guilty in 2001 and was sentenced to death in the 1999 kidnapping, rape and killing of Pamela Butler. The 10-year-old was rollerblading in front of her Kansas home when Nelson abducted her. He later raped her before strangling her to death with a wire."

Complete article:

https://abcnews.go.com/Politic...irls-killer-72646478

Judge halts planned Friday execution of Kansas girl's killer

The federal government is appealing a judge's opinion that halted its planned Friday execution of a man who kidnapped, raped and killed a 10-year-old Kansas girl

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press
August 27, 2020, 7:32 AM

WASHINGTON -- A judge in Washington halted the federal government's planned Friday execution of a man who kidnapped, raped and killed a 10-year-old Kansas girl, saying the law requires the government to get a prescription for the drug it plans to use.

In an opinion early Thursday, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said a federal law that regulates drugs requires the government to get a prescription for the lethal injection drug pentobarbital, which it plans to use to execute Keith Dwayne Nelson. The government is appealing.

Nelson's execution was scheduled to be the fifth carried out this year by the federal government at the death chamber of the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. The executions followed the Trump administration's announcement last year that it would resume executing death row inmates for the first time since 2003.

Chutkan's 13-page opinion came hours after the government carried out the execution of Lezmond Mitchell, the only Native American on federal death row, despite objections from many Navajo leaders. With Mitchell's execution, the federal government has now carried out more executions in 2020 than it had in the previous 56 years combined. Two more executions are scheduled for September. All of the executions have been carried out using pentobarbital.

Chutkan, who was nominated by President Barack Obama, said in her opinion that it is “undisputed that a prescription is required to dispense pentobarbital in the ordinary course.”

“It is also undisputed,” she wrote, "that the government has not obtained a prescription — nor does it intend to — for the use of pentobarbital in Nelson's execution.”

But Chutkan said that under previous court decisions, when pentobarbital is being used for an execution it is still subject to the requirements in the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act so a prescription is required.

“The court hereby enjoins Defendants from executing Keith Nelson until they have met the requirements of the FDCA,” Chutkan wrote.

The government has argued that pentobarbital is not subject to the act when used for lethal injections. It did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment before business hours Thursday.

Nelson pleaded guilty in 2001 and was sentenced to death in the 1999 kidnapping, rape and killing of Pamela Butler. The 10-year-old was rollerblading in front of her Kansas home when Nelson abducted her. He later raped her before strangling her to death with a wire.

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Nelson pleaded guilty in 2001 and was sentenced to death in the 1999 kidnapping, rape and killing of Pamela Butler. The 10-year-old was rollerblading in front of her Kansas home when Nelson abducted her. He later raped her before strangling her to death with a wire.

This shouldn't take 20 years...

It shouldn't take 20 minutes!!

The 'script shouldn't take more than 5 minutes.

a quick check shows the bitch is an Obama appointee

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
a quick check shows the bitch is an Obama appointee

As did the article that Sigmund posted above.

I wanted to make sure so I went to a courts website.

Just doing my own check

He pleaded guilty. What’s the delay? Why wasn’t it done a week after sentencing.

A .45acp round to the base of the skull doesn't require a prescription of any kind. Just sayin'....

This POS should have been put down a long time ago. I know the wheels of justice turn slowly, but this right here is pure BS.

So if The People go ahead and executes the murderer anyway, is the court going to suspend suspend The People's license to practice medicine? Right. (You know that if a physician actually wrote such a prescription, the anti-death penalty medical association(s) would immediately revoke his/her license to practice medicine.)

Just put him in a room and turn on some N2. He'll fall asleep and not wake up. Done painlessly, quickly and inexpensive. I don't know why they have to complicate this with injections and all this other nonsense.

He should have been executed years ago, what a disgrace to this young girl and her family that this POS is still alive.

Rope was good enough for Perry and Dick!

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Just put him in a room and turn on some N2. He'll fall asleep and not wake up. Done painlessly, quickly and inexpensive. I don't know why they have to complicate this with injections and all this other.

Heck, you don't need a whole room. Just pick up a tank of N2 at a welding supply. Hook up some rubber hose to a face mask and get'r done.

One tank would probably be sufficient to service a couple dozen customers.

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Rope was good enough for Perry and Dick!

Rope sounds like a good idea, use it to tie him to the bumper of the car, a loop around the neck should work, then drive down to the CVS to pick up the prescription, then drive back to the prison.

Is the defense team's idea that a doctor won't be able to write a prescription for the pentobarbital (due to the Hippocratic Oath or the "do no harm" clause from Hippocrates' "Of the Epidemics") without getting into trouble with a medical board?

Personally, I think it can be argued that removing this killer from society would actually be making a significant improvement, but I don't know if a doctor would risk his or her profession and liability to write such a prescription.

Because of that, I'd really like to see Federal law (and ethically-responsible states) switch back to the choice of a rope, a bullet, or a pentobarbital-like drug taken by choice.

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Done painlessly, quickly. .........
He should have been executed years ago, what a disgrace to this young girl and her family that this POS is still alive.

Sorry no - scum like this needs to die slow and with as much pain as can be imagined.........

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Originally posted by Sailor1911:
Rope was good enough for Perry and Dick!

Rope sounds like a good idea, use it to tie him to the bumper of the car, a loop around the neck should work, then drive down to the CVS to pick up the prescription, then drive back to the prison.

No need to be cruel and unusual. Just use his own personal choice and strangle him with a wire.

This is fucking disgusting.

This is in need of Gary Plauché style justice since the courts have clearly failed.

https://www.live5news.com/2020...-executed-this-year/

Kansas girl’s killer 5th federal inmate executed this year

By Associated Press | August 28, 2020 at 9:03 PM EDT - Updated August 28 at 9:03 PM

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — A Kansas girl’s killer Friday became the fifth federal inmate put to death this year, an execution that went forward only after a higher court tossed a ruling that would have required the government to get a prescription for the drug used to kill him.

Questions about whether the drug pentobarbital causes pain prior to death had been a focus of appeals for Keith Nelson, 45, the second inmate executed this week in the Trump administration’s resumption of federal executions this summer after a 17-year hiatus.

Nelson, who displayed no outward signs of pain or distress during the execution, was pronounced dead at a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, at 4:32 p.m. EDT — about nine minutes after the execution began.

There was silence from Nelson when a prison official looming over him asked if he had any last words to witnesses behind the execution-chamber glass. Those observers included the mother of 10-year-old Pamela Butler. who Nelson raped and strangled with a wire 21 years ago.

Nelson didn’t utter a word, grunt or shake his head no. After the official waited for about 15 seconds, his eyes fixed on Nelson waiting in vain for any sign of an answer, he turned away and began the execution procedure.

Nelson didn’t appear to deliberately move a muscle or turn his head toward the family witness room, where Pamela’s mom wore a T-shirt emblazoned with her daughter’s picture. Angel wings jutted out from behind Pamela’s image.

But earlier, before curtains opened enabling witnesses to see inside the chamber, Nelson’s spiritual adviser, Sister Barbara Battista, was allowed to walk up and stand two feet from the gurney, lean in and hear his last words, she told The Associated Press later.

“He said he wanted me to tell his lawyers he didn’t have to wear an adult diaper during the execution. He was glad about that,” she said. “He’d also told me (days) earlier he didn’t want to be forced to do that, that it was undignified.”

Battista, who stayed in the chamber as Nelson was put to death, standing farther away, said her interpretation of his silence during the public portion was that he was afraid if he said anything, he might then say something inappropriate.

Battista, a longtime anti-death penalty activist, said she made a point of addressing Nelson by his first name in his last minutes alive.

“He wanted someone there who would call him ‘Keith’ rather than ‘Inmate Nelson,’” she said.

Nelson, whose face was obscured from witnesses behind a medical mask, remained still even as the lethal dose of pentobarbital was delivered. None of his limbs twitched or quivered, though his his chest and midsection briefly heaved and shuttered involuntarily.

The relative stillness and quiet was a contrast to the scene on on Oct. 12, 1999, as Nelson grabbed Pamela off the street and threw her into his truck. As Pamela screamed, one of her sisters who saw her abducted began screaming, too.

Pamela had been returning to her Kansas City, Kansas, home on inline skates after buying cookies. As he drove off with her, he made a rude gesture to her sister as she screamed. He later raped the fifth-grader and strangled her with a wire.

Pamela’s mom, Cherri West, said she didn’t expect Nelson to express remorse. She said, if anything, she thought he might curse at her and her family as he had done during criminal proceedings.

“I wasn’t expecting him to say anything because he never had no remorse,” she said. “I have no remorse for him.”

Nelson showed no remorse during a sentencing hearing statement and instead “blistered the district court and the victim’s family with a profanity laden tirade,” the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals noted in one ruling.

After he was declared dead and curtains were again drawn across the windows, Battista was allowed to say a prayer over, touch and anoint Nelson’s body, she said.

Nelson’s attorneys, Dale Baich and Jen Moreno, said in a statement Friday that they had come to know him as someone other than a killer, that they “saw his humanity, his compassion, and his sense of humor.”

“The execution of Keith Nelson did not make the world a safer place,” they said.

A flurry of filings by Nelson’s legal team over several weeks zeroed in on pentobarbital, which depresses the central nervous system and, in high doses, eventually stops the heart.

In one filing in early August, Nelson’s attorneys cited an unofficial autopsy on one inmate executed last month, William Purkey, saying it indicated evidence of pulmonary edema in which the lungs fill with fluid and causes a painful sensation akin to drowning.

The federal government has defended the use of pentobarbital, disputing that Purkey’s autopsy proved he suffered. They have also cited Supreme Court ruling precedent that an execution method isn’t necessarily cruel and unusual just because it causes some pain.

In her overturned ruling, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan halted Nelson’s execution early Thursday, saying laws regulating drugs require the prescriptions, even for executions. Within hours, an appellate panel tossed her ruling.

Nelson’s crime was horrific by any measure.

Nelson, who didn’t previously know Butler or her family, told a co-worker a month earlier he planned to find a female to kidnap, torture, rape and kill because he expected to go back to prison anyway on other charges, prosecutors said.

After killing Butler, he dumped her body in a wooded area near a Missouri church.

With the execution Wednesday of Lezmond Mitchell — the only Native American on federal death row — the federal government under President Donald Trump registered more executions in 2020 than it had in the previous 56 years combined.

The executions of Nelson and Mitchell were carried out the same week as the Republican National Convention, where many Trump supporters sought to portray him as a law-and-order candidate.

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Salter reported from St. Louis. AP reporters Mike Balsamo and Jessica Gresko also contributed to this report.

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Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

the federal government under President Donald Trump registered more executions in 2020 than it had in the previous 56 years combined
Good let's take out the trash!

Its just a shame they didn't do the Judge, too.