CHILD KILLER: KEITH NELSON EXECUTED BY THE U.S FEDERAL GOVERNMENT (AUGUST 28, 2020)

                On this date, August 28, 2020, Keith Dwayne Nelson was executed by the U.S Federal Government for the murder of 10-year-old Pamela Butler in 1999.

  

Keith Nelson will be executed on August 28 for the 1999 murder of 10 year-old Pamela Barry, it was announced earlier this week.

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Keith Nelson, who killed 10-year-old KCK girl in 1999, executed in Indiana

by: Makenzie Koch

Posted: Aug 28, 2020 / 04:00 PM CDT / Updated: Aug 28, 2020 / 06:29 PM CDT

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — The federal government has executed Keith Dwayne Nelson, who killed a 10-year-old KCK girl in 1999.

Ten-year-old Pamela Butler was rollerblading in front of her Kansas City, Kansas home in 1999. Nelson then drove up to the home and abducted her. He later raped her before strangling her to death with a wire.

The execution by lethal injection took place at 3:32 p.m. central time Friday at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, federal officials say.

When a prison official standing over him asked if he had any last words, he was met with silence. Nelson didn’t utter a word, grunt or nod his head.

After the official waited for about 15 seconds, his eyes fixed on Nelson waiting in vain for an answer, the official turned away and began the execution procedure. He was pronounced dead about nine minutes after the lethal injection began.

Sister Barbara Battista of the Sisters of Providence of St. Mary-of-the-Woods, a group that opposes the death penalty, was inside the death chamber during his execution at his request.

Nelson was arrested on the banks of the Kansas River two days after Butler disappeared. He pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri in 2001 and was sentenced to death.

He has been sitting on death row ever since, exhausting all possible appeals.

‘Finally’: Pamela Butler’s loved ones ready to see justice as killer set to be executed

The execution was almost delayed after a judge said Thursday that the law requires the government to get a prescription for the drug it plans to use. That ruling was overturned later that night by a higher court.

Nelson is now the fifth federal inmate executed this year and the second this week.

Pamela’s mother, Cherri West, spoke following the execution saying she feels at peace and that she feels her daughter is now at rest.

For Pamela’s family, the execution came none to soon.

“Finally, it’s taken long enough,” Stacy Mangels, a family friend, previously told FOX4. “It’s been a very long 21 years for her family. We need justice for her, and it’s so close.”

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Sherri West, mother of kidnap and murder victim Pamela Butler, held her most recent photo up south of the Federal Courthouse in Kansas City, Mo., in 2013, when the federal government’s budget cuts delayed imposing the death penalty sentence for Keith Nelson, Pamela’s killer. DAVID EULITT

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4438952/Woman-loses-daughter-murder-18-years-apart.html

https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article245337280.html

https://fox4kc.com/news/finally-pamela-butlers-loved-ones-ready-to-see-justice-as-killer-set-to-be-executed/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_offenders_executed_in_the_United_States_in_2020

LEZMOND MITCHELL EXECUTED BY THE U.S FEDERAL GOVERNMENT (AUGUST 26, 2020)

Death row inmate Lezmond Mitchell executed in Indiana

Navajo Nation opposed death row sentencing as a violation of their sovereignty

By Caitlin McFall | Fox News

Lezmond Mitchell, a Native American, became the fourth person to die on death row from a lethal injection this year, for the killings of a woman and her 9-year-old granddaughter in 2001.

The Supreme Court denied Mitchell’s request to stop his execution, Mitchell’s lawyer also had a clemency request pending before President Trump that went unapproved.

The Navajo Nation opposed the execution of Mitchell, saying it violated the Native American group’s sovereignty.

But the family of the 9-year old girl, Tiffany Lee, rejected the Navajo Nation’s stance. “An eye for an eye,” Daniel Lee, her father, told the Associated Press.
“He took my daughter away, and no remorse or anything like that. The Navajo Nation president, the council, they don’t speak for me. I speak for myself and for my daughter,” he added.

Authorities described that Tiffany was hit in the head with rocks by Mitchell and co-defendant Johnny Orsinger, because she did not immediately succumb to her throat having been slit.

SUPREME COURT DENIES KILLER LEZMOND MITCHELL’S STAY REQUEST; EXECUTION SET FOR WEDNESDAY

Tiffany’s grandmother, 63-year-old Navajo woman, Alyce Slim, was stabbed 33 times on a Navajo reservation located in the northeast of Arizona.

Tiffany and Slim were then placed upright in the back seat and driven to an abandoned sheep farm where their bodies were reportedly mutilated and found in a shallow grave.

Mitchell allegedly stole her vehicle for a robbery.

DEATH ROW INMATES' LAST WORDS

Slim had offered Mitchell and Orsinger a ride as they hitchhiked in the Navajo Nation.

Mitchell, 38, was pronounced dead at 6:29 pm Wednesday. When asked if had any last words for his family, he responded, “No, I’m good.”

He received a lethal injection of pentobarbital in a death chamber at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. The injection reportedly took 26 minutes before Mitchell was pronounced dead.

Orsinger was a minor at the time of the crime, and therefore does not face death row, but rather life in prison without parole.

Three other federal executions were conducted in July for the first time in 17 years.
Keith Nelson, who was convicted of the abduction, sexual abuse and killing of 10-year Pamela Butler in 1999, is scheduled to be executed on Friday.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr directed the federal Bureau of Prisons to schedule death row executions starting in mid-July.

The Associated Press and Dom Calicchio contributed to this report.

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http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2020/08/victims-family-supports-planned.html

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-9th-circuit/1177624.html

VIRGINIA RAPE SUSPECT, IBRAHIM BOUAICHI RELEASED AND KILLED HIS ACCUSER

Bouaichi’s release from jail and the slaying of Dominguez represent a tragic side effect of the pandemic. As the coronavirus erupted in America, civil liberties advocates called for the release of large numbers of prisoners from jails and prisons in order to keep them from being infected and possibly dying in necessarily confined spaces.

 Using Covid-19 as an excuse to free prisoners from jails, the ACLU now had blood on their hands for causing the death of a woman and many others.

   

Released prisoner accused of raping, killing Virginia woman has died

Ibrahim Bouaichi shot himself as police closed in on him Wednesday

By

Tom Jackman

August 9, 2020 at 8:33 a.m. GMT+8

A man accused of murdering an Alexandria woman, who had accused him of sexually assaulting her last fall, died Saturday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound that occurred as police tried to arrest him again on Wednesday. The man’s family issued a statement Saturday night saying they were grieving the loss of both lives.

Ibrahim E. Bouaichi, 33, had reportedly been in a relationship with Karla E. Dominguez, 31, before an allegedly violent incident in Dominguez’s Alexandria apartment on Oct. 10. Dominguez told police that Bouaichi broke into her apartment and sexually assaulted her. Bouaichi was charged with six felony counts, turned himself in to the Alexandria jail on Oct. 21, and was ordered held without bond.

Bouaichi maintained his innocence, and his lawyers pressed for a quick trial, but then the coronavirus pandemic struck and all trials were postponed. Bouaichi’s lawyers said visitation had been curtailed in the Alexandria jail, that they needed to meet with him before trial and that jails were potential coronavirus hot spots, although Alexandria’s jail had not had a case. They asked Alexandria Circuit Court Judge Nolan Dawkins to allow Bouaichi to post bond.

Released from jail at height of pandemic, Virginia rape suspect allegedly killed his accuser

On April 9, Dawkins agreed to set a secured bond for Bouaichi of $25,000, over Alexandria prosecutors’ objection. The judge ordered Bouaichi to stay in his Greenbelt home and not leave except to meet with his lawyers or pretrial services, and not to have any contact with Dominguez. The judge — who retired in June after 26 years and did not respond to a request for comment — did not order electronic monitoring for Bouaichi.

In early May, Greenbelt police found Bouaichi behind the wheel of his car at a Wendy’s restaurant drive-through, and they allege that he rammed one of their cruisers with his car. He was charged with multiple assault counts, drunken driving and multiple traffic charges, but was released on bond after one night in the Prince George’s County jail.

The Greenbelt incident would have triggered a motion from Alexandria prosecutors to revoke Bouaichi’s bond, Alexandria Commonwealth’s Attorney Bryan L. Porter said. But no one notified Alexandria that Bouaichi had been arrested again.

On July 29, Dominguez was found shot to death outside her apartment on South Greenmount Drive, in the Town Square at Mark Center Apartments. Two days later, Alexandria police obtained a murder warrant for Bouaichi.

But when they went to arrest him, he was gone. After several days of fruitless searching, the police issued a news release Tuesday saying Bouaichi had been charged in Dominguez’s killing, and asking for the public’s help in locating him.

The next morning, the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force and Alexandria officers spotted Bouaichi’s car in Prince George’s County. As they moved in to arrest him, he shot himself, Alexandria police said.

He died Saturday at a local hospital, police said in a news release.

Bouaichi’s family released a statement Saturday evening: “Our brother and son Ibrahim died today, having taken his own life. We are incredibly saddened by Karla’s death and wish this tragedy had never happened. ... As we lay our son to rest, we ask for peace for everyone involved as we grieve our losses.”

INTERNET SOURCE: https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2020/08/08/released-prisoner-accused-raping-killing-virginia-woman-has-died/

Virginia rape suspect released over coronavirus concerns kills accuser: Police

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Monday, August 10, 2020

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A Virginia rape suspect who was released from jail due to coronavirus concerns killed his accuser before fatally shooting himself, police said Saturday.

Ibrahm Elkahlil Bouaichi, 33, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head following a car chase with police Wednesday in Prince George’s County, Maryland, police said in a statement. Bouaichi was accused of fatally shooting 31-year-old Karla Elizabeth Dominguez Gonzalez, the woman who accused him of sexual assault last year, outside her apartment in Arlington, Virginia, on July 29, ABC 7 reported.

Gonzalez testified against Bouaichi in Alexandria District Court in December. He was charged with six felonies, including rape, and jailed without bond. When the pandemic hit in March, Bouaichi’s lawyers argued he should be freed while awaiting trial out of safety concerns.

Bouaichi was released from jail on $25,000 bond on April 9. Alexandria Circuit Court Judge Nolan Dawkins, who retired in June, ordered Bouaichi to stay in his Greenbelt home except when meeting with his lawyers or during pretrial services, but he did not order electronic monitoring for the suspect, The Washington Post reported.

Gonzalez was notified of his release the same day, according to the Alexandria Sheriff’s office.

Her death marked the first homicide in Arlington this year. A GoFundMe page set up for her family surpassed $10,000 Monday.

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Released from jail at height of pandemic, Alexandria rape suspect allegedly killed his accuser. Ibrahim Bouaichi then shot himself as police closed in Wednesday, leaving him in critical condition

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2020/08/06/released-jail-height-pandemic-alexandria-rape-suspect-allegedly-killed-his-accuser/

THE FIRST COMISSIONER OF POLICE IN SINGAPORE: THOMAS DUNMAN

            Today August 9, 2020, is Singapore’s National Day and 2020 is also the 200^th anniversary of the Singapore Police Force, which was founded in 1820. I will post information about the first commissioner of Police in Singapore; he is one of my British heroes.

 

Thomas Dunman (1814-1887) was an Englishman during the British Colonial period with Anglo-Saxon origins from the town of Dunham^[a] in Norfolk, England, United Kingdom. He arrived in the Straits Settlements and the Crown Colony of Singapore from England. Dunman was the first Commissioner of Police in Singapore, Straits Settlements from 1856 to 1871.

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Thomas Dunman (1814-1887) was an Englishman during the British Colonial period with Anglo-Saxon origins from the town of Dunham^[a] in Norfolk, England, United Kingdom. He arrived in the Straits Settlements and the Crown Colony of Singapore from England. Dunman was the first Commissioner of Police in Singapore, Straits Settlements from 1856 to 1871.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dunman

History

Born in the United Kingdom in 1815, Dunman came to Singapore in 1840 as an assistant in the merchant firm Dyce & Co. He entered the police force in 1843. He was made Superintendent of Police in 1851, and Commissioner of Police in 1856.

During his time heading the police force, Dunman was known for being on good terms with the people of various classes and communities within Singapore, and thus able to gain assistance and first-hand information regarding what was happening in the city. He was respected by leaders of the European community, and supported by influential Muslim Malays leaders, Straits Chinese leaders and the local Indian community. During this time, Singapore was flooded with new immigrants who often got to the then British Crown Colony though illegal means from non-British controlled part of Malaysia such as Kuala Lumpur, and also snuck in from hidden cabins in ships from India and Southeast Asia, often hiding illegal and contraband items such as drugs especially opium for sale in Singapore then with the colonial British government profiting off colonial slaves called "coolies" making them work for free by addicting them and selling them high-priced opium in opium dens. Because of this liberalization of the vice trades, many opium merchants saw Singapore as a seaport of vices where they could become rich overnight or hide their illegal gains. As a result, there were many secret societies known as "Triads". In Chinese, the underworld of criminal activity is known as "Black Society".

Thomas Dunman witnessed Singapore as a colonial hotbed of crime, including sex trafficking, murders over human trafficking debt bills, known in Singapore as the slave trade of the Chinese coolies, which the Chinese referred to under the euphemism of "selling piglets" (Chinese: Mai Zhuzai). Criminals kidnapped the most beautiful virgin girls by raiding the rural towns and cities of Southern China's coastline, abducted these girls, and sold them to expensive high-class brothels in Singapore previously tolerated by the British. As a result, many Chinese girls died of sex diseases, some were drowned during their voyage to Singapore, still many others committed suicide or were murdered by criminals in secret societies, when they could not repay their "slave debt" and the high interest piled on them when the colonial banking industry headed south.

 

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At one point, almost all the women in Singapore died out, and prostitutes had to be imported from Macau, then a Dutch province, to supply more sex slaves to the colony so the British port could continue to collect high rents and sell land to shady criminals who hoarded tenancies and land for vices in the sex trade, the slave trade and illegal "ventures" in gambling and racketeering. Thomas Dunman was assigned to enforce the British colonial laws that have gone for decades ignored. He established a stricter stance against criminals "for their own good".

He improved the efficiency and training of the police force. Among the measures he introduced were improved pay and working hours for policemen, setting up training programmes and night classes for members of the force, and creating a pension scheme for retired policemen. Morale in the force improved and the crime rate in Singapore decreased under his leadership.

Dunman was the founding president of The Tanglin Club in 1865. Dunman was also one of the founding members of Orchard Road Presbyterian Church in Singapore. Many students and elite alumni of the school are also affiliated with this church, although the majority at Dunman High School are freethinkers or Buddhists, Taoists and Confucianists, which Islam is a more common religion in Dunman Secondary School.

Later life and death

Dunman retired from the police force in 1871, and spent the next few years on his coconut plantation, Grove Estate (in what is now the Mountbatten area of Katong). He returned to England in 1875, and died in Bournemouth, England in 1887.

  

A wooden plaque commemorating Thomas Dunman (1814–1887) in Orchard Road Presbyterian Church in Singapore.

Legacy

Dunman's Green, the park in Singapore was named after him before its eventual renaming to Hong Lim Green in 1876 and to Hong Lim Park in 1960 respectively. Along with Dunman Road and Dunman Lane in the Katong area of Singapore, Dunman High School and Dunman Secondary School are also named after Thomas Dunman.

See also

Commissioner of Police (Singapore)

  

Society will always have criminals. Some people have evil in their hearts. The only thing we can do is control this using sound police techniques. So, let’s say this to criminals: “You criminals! Commit crimes if that’s what’s on your mind. No matter what you try to do, we are always watching you. We know exactly what you are up to. So, show us what you can do.” 

- Hands and Eyes of the Police, Philosophy of Kawaji Toshiyoshi, Founder of the Police in Modern Japan

https://www.npa.go.jp/keidai/resources/kikan/seisaku/handsandeyesofthepolice.pdf

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Regarded as the father of the police force in Singapore, Thomas Dunman (1814-1887) was the first Commissioner of Police between 1856 and 1871. The riots in 1854 came as one of the early tests for Dunman, who was then a Superintendent. The small police force could not cope with the widespread clashes, and military troops had to be called in. To avoid repeating the same mistake, Dunman carried out training of his police force, improving its efficiency and discipline. By also maintaining good relationships with various communities, Dunman was able to gain first-hand information of the incidents in the city. Under his leadership, there was soon a significant decline in the crime rate. To honour his contributions, Dunman Road was named after him.

https://remembersingapore.org/2013/08/10/history-of-sg-police-force/

He was a capable and hardworking person. He was on good terms with the people so he could get first-hand knowledge of what was happening in the city. He got many men to join the police force. He improved the pay and working hours of the policemen. Retired policemen also got pensions from the government. He also setup night classes for the policemen. The policemen were given proper training and their morale was high. Under Thomas Dunman, the crime rate decreased. He retired from the police force in 1871.

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https://www.cosmolife.sg/the-history-of-singapore-police-force/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_Police_Force

https://www.facebook.com/VictimsFamiliesForTheDeathPenalty/posts/3012301035558509

https://remembersingapore.org/2013/08/10/history-of-sg-police-force/