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Scott Nelson’s brother testifies about childhood abuse as jury weighs death penalty for Jennifer Fulford slaying
JUL 02, 2019 | 1:51 PM
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Nelson’s attorneys have argued his difficult upbringing and lifetime of substance abuse issues, imprisonment and mistreatment should give jurors pause about recommending that he be sentenced to die. Prosecutors say the cruelty of Fulford’s slaying weighs in favor of capital punishment.
By the time Scott Nelson was born in Massachusetts in 1964, his mother Joan had already suffered several nervous breakdowns and was medicated on powerful psychiatric drugs, James Nelson said. Their father, Lawrence Nelson, once beat her when she was seven months pregnant with Scott Nelson, his brother said.
James Nelson described his father as a “good provider,” who was highly regarded in the community. But inside their home, he said Lawrence Nelson was “extremely emotionally abusive, verbally abusive and physically abusive” toward the three brothers and their mother.
“He would call people derogatory names and make fun of us,” James Nelson testified. “I was hit with a two-by-four on more than one occasion. He would throw things at you. He would get you in a corner and he would beat you with a belt. ... He punched me in the face.”
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JUL 02, 2019 | 1:51 PM
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Nelson’s attorneys have argued his difficult upbringing and lifetime of substance abuse issues, imprisonment and mistreatment should give jurors pause about recommending that he be sentenced to die. Prosecutors say the cruelty of Fulford’s slaying weighs in favor of capital punishment.
By the time Scott Nelson was born in Massachusetts in 1964, his mother Joan had already suffered several nervous breakdowns and was medicated on powerful psychiatric drugs, James Nelson said. Their father, Lawrence Nelson, once beat her when she was seven months pregnant with Scott Nelson, his brother said.
James Nelson described his father as a “good provider,” who was highly regarded in the community. But inside their home, he said Lawrence Nelson was “extremely emotionally abusive, verbally abusive and physically abusive” toward the three brothers and their mother.
“He would call people derogatory names and make fun of us,” James Nelson testified. “I was hit with a two-by-four on more than one occasion. He would throw things at you. He would get you in a corner and he would beat you with a belt. ... He punched me in the face.”
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