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.
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Keith Nelson will be executed on August 28 for the 1999 murder of 10
year-old Pamela Barry, it was announced earlier this week.
Keith Nelson,
who killed 10-year-old KCK girl in 1999, executed in Indiana
by: Makenzie
Koch
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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.
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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