Posted on 08/28/2020 5:34:30 AM PDT by Red Badger
Aug. 27 (UPI) -- A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Thursday issued a stay of execution for a man who was set to die Friday for the murder of a 10-year-old girl in 1999.
District Judge Tanya Chutkan halted plans for the execution of Keith Dwayne Nelson, 45, saying the federal government must, by law, have a prescription for the drug it plans to use for the lethal injection.
The U.S. government uses a single drug for its lethal injections -- pentobarbital, a sedative. Chutkan said using the drug without a prescription is a violation of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.
"The government got caught taking shortcuts and the district court ruled that they cannot make an end-run around the law," Nelson's attorney, Dale Baich, said. "Here, the government made a choice to use compounded drugs and in so doing was taking a risk that it would violate the FDCA."
The U.S. Department of Justice appealed Chutkan's ruling with the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
Nelson pleaded guilty to the Oct. 12, 1999, kidnapping, rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl whom he abducted while she was rollerblading in front of her home.
His attorneys argue he was denied effective trial counsel and the jury sentenced him to death without hearing of mitigating circumstances, including his "severe organic brain damage," mental illness, and physical and sexual abuse as a child.
If he's executed Friday, Nelson will be the fifth person put to death by the U.S. government this year. Attorney General William Barr resumed federal executions last month after a 17-year hiatus.
The Bureau of Prisons has carried out the executions of Daniel Lewis Lee (July 14), Wesley Purkey (July 16), Dustin Honken (July 17) and Lezmond Mitchell (Wednesday).
Shoot him instead. No prescription needed for a cranium lead injection
Pure unadulterated BS....it doesn’t come any purer.
A Dorkbama “judge”?
Remember when we (mostly) respected law schools?
You can buy rope at the hardware store. No prescription needed.
And rope can be reused so it is good for the environment and stuff.
Do you have to be intelligent to be a judge? Askin’ for a friend...
“ District Judge Tanya Chutkan halted plans for the execution of Keith Dwayne Nelson, 45, saying the federal government must, by law, have a prescription for the drug it plans to use for the lethal injection.”
Twenty years waiting on his sentence to be carried out and this “jurist” stops it on a frikkkn technically. They couldn’t find a Dr willing to write a prescription on the spot? What has life been like for his victim the last twenty years.....oh wait.....
Just shoot the scum. No prescription necessary.
“Three in the head, you know they dead.” -Morgan Freeman.
Is this ruling from a judge or the Babylon Bee?
The judge is actually making a mockery out of the system and not really saving the murderer.
But I do see the judges point of view, with out a prescription, this guy could be given drugs that may be harmful to him.
230 Grain Lead Injection at the base of the skull. No prescription needed.
“ But I do see the judges point of view, with out a prescription, this guy could be given drugs that may be harmful to him.”
Beat me to it.
“””Do you have to be intelligent to be a judge? Askin’ for a friend...”””””””
No. Just the right color.
“””But I do see the judges point of view, with out a prescription, this guy could be given drugs that may be harmful to him.”””””
I have never needed a prescription for a drug given to me by a doctor or nurse.
I needed a prescription to buy drugs that I take myself at home.
But I am not smart like a judge so I don’t know what I am talking about.
I know this is COMPLICATED for people here, but when our side SITS OUT elections, we get judges like this.
Work on it, please.
We must find out those who are appointing these judges and let the country know. Get those in Congress who approved, removed from office.
Get 2 and give the second one to her.
Need to go back to hanging, firing squad or old sparky. No prescription required.
As for the judge stopping the execution for this is pure BS. No doctor can give such a prescription because it is meant to kill the “patient”.
OK. Just use a rope. If not a rope, a bullet to the back of the head would work too.
Execution need not be complicated or expensive.
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