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    Keith Dwayne Nelson - Federal Execution - August 28, 2020


    Pamela Butler




    Summary of Offense:

    Nelson was convicted of kidnapping Pamela Butler, 10, from her Kansas home and murdering her in Missouri on October 12, 1999. On November 28, 2001, a jury recommended the death penalty for Nelson, and on March 11, 2002, a federal judge imposed the death penalty.

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    On October 27, 2008, the US Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered further proceedings in Federal District Court on Nelson's ineffective-assistance-of-counsel habeas claim.

    http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal...071/920081027/

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    Man Convicted of Killing Pamela Butler Wants Conviction Overturned

    KANSAS CITY, KS — Death row inmate Keith Nelson wants his murder conviction reversed. Nelson is convicted of abducting, raping and murdering 10-year-old Pamela Butler in Kansas City, Kan., in October of 1999.

    Nelson tried to be taken off death row in 2003, after his 2002 conviction, by claiming there were mistakes in the jury selection and he was unfairly denied a change of venue request. The court dismissed both arguments. Nelson now claims his lawyers were ineffective.

    Butler's mother, Cheri West, said she's terrified his conviction will be overturned.

    "There's always that chance," she said. "I'm not the law, the jury, the court. They make them decisions and I worry about that."

    At this time, no hearing date has been set. West said Nelson's appeal has been postponed until later this year.

    "One day this is finally going to be done and over with," she said.

    And when that day comes, when Nelson will be put to death for the brutal murder of Pamela Butler, West said it will be a happy moment.

    "To know that he's not breathing no more would make me happy because I think it should be her that should be out here seeing the sunlight and the daylight. Not him," she said.

    Today, Butler would be 21 years old.

    http://www.fox4kc.com/news/wdaf-man-...,7838060.story

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    im sorry to say but ive met him once, i married into his family to his cousin billy, nancy who is keiths mom i see quite a bit, im getting away from that family,and as far as keith nelson goes i would love to pull some stuff on him like gerard butler did in law abidden citisen, the justice system does suck. he should die very slowly and painfully,

    why dont u stop dragging this on and die u fat ugly basterd, did pamala get that long ?


    Sam, nice to have you here. I have edited your posts to remove the foul language. Please follow the rules.
    -tpg

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    srry i have no feelings about people like that

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    On December 27, 2012, Nelson filed an appeal in the US Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. I suppose this means his habeas (2255) petition had been denied in Federal District Court.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/cir...s/ca8/12-4025/

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    A New Way to Oppose the Death Penalty?

    The sequester-driven budget fight in Washington has become infuriating and real for Cherri West. It probably is keeping her daughter’s killer alive longer than she wants.

    West learned from federal prosecutors last week that death penalty appeals for Keith D. Nelson — who killed her 10-year-old daughter, Pamela Butler, in 1999 — have ground to a halt because his federally funded lawyers don’t have the money to pay for travel and witness fees for a critical hearing in July.

    Chief U.S. District Judge Fernando J. Gaitan Jr. recently canceled the hearing, citing “unanticipated budgetary issues.”

    But West blames federal lawmakers.

    “They can’t do their job to do a budget,” West said. “What is the problem? They get their paychecks and their raises, but they can’t do something for someone else?”

    West said she is confident that prosecutors would have prevailed at the hearing, which then could have moved Nelson several steps closer to the death chamber at a federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind.

    “I’ll help the defense out,” West said. “If they want me to get a fundraiser together to help them get their witnesses in, I’ll do that.”

    Nelson’s lawyers did not respond to a request for comment. A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office declined to speak about the situation in detail but confirmed that the problem did not arise in his office.

    “This is not an issue on our part,” said Don Ledford, the spokesman. “We are prepared to move forward.”

    Gaitan has scheduled a status conference for Oct. 3, just after the start of the federal government’s new fiscal year, when more money might be available.

    Pamela’s kidnapping and murder prompted one of the largest manhunts in Kansas City history.

    Nelson kidnapped Pamela as she roller-skated near her Kansas City, Kan., home on Oct. 12, 1999. He stuffed her into the cab of a pickup, drove east into Missouri and stopped in the parking lot of a Grain Valley church. After dragging her into a densely wooded area, Nelson beat her and strangled her with brown speaker wire.

    Officers arrested him two days later on the bank of the Kansas River.

    Nelson’s appeals began just after Gaitan sentenced him to death in March 2002. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to overturn his sentence in November 2004. That opened a second round of appeals, permitting Nelson and a new set of lawyers to argue that the lawyers who represented him at trial and in his first appeal had been ineffective.

    In October 2008, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals returned the case to Kansas City, asking the judge to conduct a hearing and rule on whether Nelson’s lawyers had investigated the case properly, raised the necessary objections and done everything possible to explore mental health issues.

    Since then, Nelson’s lawyers have reviewed the case in minute detail. As the hearing approached, defense lawyers filed a 16-person witness list that included one medical doctor and five other experts with doctoral degrees.

    The federal sequester has forced deep cuts in funds to pay for the defense of poor people charged with federal crimes and has roiled courthouses across the country. Some public defender offices have gone to four-day workweeks to save money.

    Jurors at a recent long-running fraud trial in Kansas City could hear evidence only four days a week, instead of five, because a federal public defender was furloughed on Fridays.

    Early last month the longtime federal defender in Kansas City announced his retirement, saying that his salary and that of another retiree would take pressure off his 35-person staff and cover the budget shortfall.

    And money also is growing scarce to pay private lawyers to represent defendants when the public defender’s office cannot.

    The federal courts recently asked Congress for an emergency appropriation of $41.4 million to help cover a $51 million shortfall in federal defender service budgets nationwide.

    Long delays in federal death penalty cases are routine. Only three inmates have been executed since the federal death penalty was reinstated in 1988, and 59 are awaiting execution, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

    But West said that’s no excuse for politicians to feed into the delay that many death row inmates crave, compounding the heartache that crime victims and their families feel every day.

    “I want Pammy’s supporters to call Congress and get this taken care of,” West said.

    “This has gone on long enough.”

    http://www.kansascity.com/2013/06/09...#storylink=cpy
    Last edited by joerodney; 06-10-2013 at 11:02 AM.

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    May I ask you why this case is a federal one? what is the difference between "normal" local cases and these federal ones? Thanks

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    Following the historic Lindbergh kidnapping (the abduction and murder of Charles Lindbergh's toddler son), the United States Congress adopted a federal kidnapping statute—popularly known as the Federal Kidnapping Act 18 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(1) (also known as the Lindbergh Law, or Little Lindbergh Law)—which was intended to let federal authorities step in and pursue kidnappers once they had crossed state lines with their victim.

    The theory behind the Lindbergh Law was that federal law enforcement intervention was necessary because state and local law enforcement officers could not effectively pursue kidnappers across state lines. Since federal law enforcement, such as FBI agents, have national law enforcement authority, Congress believed they could do a much more effective job of dealing with kidnappings than could state, county, and local authorities.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Kidnapping_Act

    The kidnapping took place in Kansas but the murder was committed in Missouri.

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    Thanks for the explanation.

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