Nelson Shelton was executed by the State of Delaware for the murder of Wilson Mannon
According to court documents Nelson Shelton, his brother Steven Shelton and their cousin Jack Outten would beat to death Wilson Mannon for flirting with one of their girlfriends
The three men would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Nelson Shelton would be executed by lethal injection on March 17 1995
Steven Shelton death sentence would be commuted to 40 years in prison
Jack Outen death sentence would be commuted to 38 years in prison
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Nelson Shelton Case
A remorseful killer gave his long-ago Sunday school teacher an apology to read, then was strapped to a gurney and executed by injection early yesterday.
Nelson Shelton, 27, had refused to appeal his death sentence. He made no final statement and died with a tear in the corner of his eye. He was pronounced dead at 12:34 a.m.
Shelton, his brother and a cousin were sentenced to death for beating 64-year-old Wilson Mannon Jr. to death in January 1992. It was the first time in Delaware that three people received death sentences for a single murder.
Meanwhile, the Department of Correction postponed an operation set for March 21 in which Steven Shelton would donate a kidney to his mother.
Shelton’s mother, who also has heart problems, needs a kidney transplant.
The announcement came after a judge issued a stay of execution for Steven Shelton and Outten, who were to be executed April 5 and April 4, respectively
Joseph Gabay, Steven Shelton’s attorney, said he expects a new date for the transplant to be set Monday. Nelson Shelton first offered his kidney to his mother, but doctors said he was not a compatible donor.
He was the fifth person to be executed in Delaware since the 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing states to resume using the death penalty.
