DEATH ROW--death penalty in America

[HairOfTheDog]

I'm always amazed that a monster would even bring up cruel & unusual punishment.

This now-dead waste of space actually took the opposite stance. I'm wondering if the death penalty abolitionists on his case are behind his last words, as a kind of reverse psychology attempt directed at death penalty advocates and the public?


David Zink, 55, was put to death at a state prison near Bonne Terre, Missouri hours after the nation's high court rebuffed his last appeals and Gov. Jay Nixon rejected his clemency request.

In a final written statement, Zink said he hoped his execution would bring peace to the family of the woman he killed, Amanda Morton. "I offer my sincerest apology to Amanda Morton's family and friends for my actions."

He added a message to other inmates on death row.

"For those who remain on death row, understand that everyone is going to die. Statistically speaking, we have a much easier death than most. So I encourage you to embrace it and celebrate our true liberation before society figures it out and condemns us to life without parole and we too will die a lingering death."

Zink's Capital Crime
Authorities said Zink abducted 19-year-old Morton in 2001 after hitting her car from behind on a highway exit ramp a mile from her Strafford home. Morton was driving home after visiting a friend.

He then beat her severely, sexually attacked her, tied her to a cemetery tree, severed her spine with a knife.

Just months before the slaying, Zink had been released from a Texas prison after serving 20 years on rape, abduction and escape charges. Fearing that his drunken fender-bender with Morton could violate his parole and send him back to prison, Zink abducted Morton, taking her to a motel.

"If I think that you're going to pose a threat to my freedom, it is set in my mind I want to eliminate you," Zink said in his videotaped confession.

The motel's manager later saw a televised news report about Morton's disappearance, recognized her as the woman who had checked in with Zink, and gave investigators Zink's name and license plate number from motel registration.

Ref: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/inmate-david...-executed/