NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. government executed Keith Nelson, a convicted child murderer, on Friday afternoon in its fifth execution since it resumed capital punishment this summer after a 17-year hiatus and despite a ruling that the lethal injections violated U.S. drug laws.
Nelson, 45, was declared dead at 4:32 p.m. local time in the U.S. Department of Justice’s execution chamber in Terre Haute, Indiana, after being injected with lethal doses of pentobarbital, a powerful barbiturate.
(Reporting by Jonathan Allen; Editing by Chris Reese)
