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| Inmate set to die this week seeks stay |
| By The Birmingham News |
| Published: 10/13/2003 |
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An Alabama inmate on Death Row for 25 years was set to die by lethal injection last week. But attorneys for triple murderer David Larry Nelson last Monday filed a motion asking the courts to stop the execution. "We're going to try anything and everything," said his attorney, Joey Morgan. Nelson, 58, began his slow march toward death in 1978 when he was convicted for the shooting death of Wilson Thompson of Kimberly. There have been many twists and turns along the way. Twice his convictions were overturned, then affirmed again in new trials. In 1994, he told prison officials that he wanted to forgo further appeals and be executed in a televised event. Then, in 1996, he was granted a stay of execution when he sought to donate a kidney to his dying brother. The attorney general's office had not filed a response to Nelson's latest stay request, spokeswoman Joy Patterson said Monday afternoon. Nelson's crime rampage began Dec. 31, 1977, when he killed a cab driver, his girlfriend and another man in Alabama. Nelson in 1971 was convicted of beating to death 82-year-old Oliver King in a Birmingham parking deck. He spent three years in prison for that killing. After doctors deemed a kidney transplant for Nelson's brother was not feasible in the 1996 stay, the courts set another execution date for 1997. Further appeals continued until March 24, 2002. Nelson's lawyers said they will seek a new stay on procedural grounds and new case law. |
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