Another Child Killer Executed Another one down, about another 500k to go.

Source: https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2020/07/16/wesley-purkey-executed-terre-haute/5442505002/

Wesley Ira Purkey executed in Terre Haute, 2nd man put to death this week
Vic Ryckaert
Elizabeth DePompei
Justin L. Mack
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For the second time this week, a man was executed by lethal injection inside a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Wesley Ira Purkey was pronounced dead at 8:19 a.m. Thursday. 
“I deeply regret the pain and suffering I’ve caused Jennifer’s family..." Purkey said in his last words. "This sanitized murder really does not serve no purpose whatsoever.”
The 68-year-old from Kansas was convicted on Nov. 3, 2003, of the violent rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl in Missouri. Officials said he then dismembered, burned and dumped the girl’s body in a septic pond. 
Prior to his 2003 conviction, Purkey pleaded guilty to using a claw hammer to bludgeon to death an 80-year-old woman who suffered from polio and walked with a cane. For that, he was sentenced to life in prison. 

Purkey's execution came two days after Daniel Lewis Lee was put to death. Lee was the first federal execution in 17 years. 
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Both executions were delayed by the courts, with a federal judge granting injunctions within hours of the scheduled deaths. The Department of Justice ultimately prevailed in both cases, which each reached the Supreme Court of the United States. 

Courts delay Purkey's death 
U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan granted a preliminary injunction early Wednesday to delay Purkey's death, which was initially scheduled for 4 p.m. the same day. His attorneys said Purkey suffers from dementia and schizophrenia. She later granted another injunction. 
A 5-4 Supreme Court decision lifted those injunctions early Thursday.
The 14-page order from Chutkan states that Purkey experienced repeated sexual abuse and molestation by those who cared for him as a child. He suffered multiple traumatic brain injuries, the first in 1968 when he was 16.

"At 14, he was first examined for possible brain damage, and at 18, he was diagnosed with schizophrenic reaction, schizoaffective disorder, and depression superimposed upon a preexisting antisocial personality," court documents state. "At 68, he suffers from progressive dementia, schizophrenia, complex-post traumatic stress disorder, and severe mental illness."
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The order says that Purkey sought to stop the execution on grounds that he was not  competent to be executed, and that Attorney General William Barr and Bureau of Prisons Director Michael Carvajal did not afford him due process in connection with this Eighth Amendment claim.The Eighth Amendment prohibits the federal government from imposing excessive bail, excessive fines or cruel and unusual punishments. 
More executions scheduled 
Two more inmates are scheduled to be executed at the Terre Haute prison, including one this week.
Dustin Lee Honken, who shot and killed five people — including two men who planned to testify against him — is scheduled to be executed Friday.  
Keith Dwayne Nelson, who kidnapped, raped and strangled a 10-year-old girl, is scheduled to be executed Aug. 28.