DEATH ROW--death penalty in America

[Lady Cop]

BREVARD COUNTY --
News 13
A Brevard County convicted killer has become the third woman on Florida's death row.

Margaret Allen, 45, was convicted last September of killing and torturing the housekeeper in 2005 who accused her of stealing $2,000. She was sentenced to death Thursday morning.

She along with Quinton Allen, her nephew, are accused of beating and strangling Wenda Wright with a belt, then burying the body in a shallow grave in the northern part of the county.

Quinton testified against his aunt and through a plea deal will serve 15 years behind bars.

In earlier testimony, a medical examiner described the nearly dozen blows to Wright's face and body, and the belt tightened so severely around her neck she lost consciousness.

The defense tried to spare Allen from the death penalty. They brought a neurologist in to testify claiming she suffers from brain damage due to previous assaults in her past and because of her condition could not plan a murder scheme.

Two other women are currently on death row in the state of Florida.

Tiffany Cole, convicted in 2008 in Duval County of killing a Jacksonville couple and burying them alive. And Emilia Carr was just convicted in February in Marion County for kidnapping and murder then burying the victim in a shallow grave.


smaller pic at bottom is victim. they poured bleach down her throat too.

[Lady Cop]

Jesus Cali... you've executed 5 people in last 10 years (each one was on the row for over 20 years) at a cost of gazillions for taxpayers! no wonder CA. is broke!

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Taxpayers have spent $4 billion since 1978 on California's capital punishment system -- and with only 13 executions to show for it.

That's about $308 million per execution.

And without substantial changes, the state's total bill will expand to $9 billion by 2030, according to a new study by federal appeals Judge Arthur Alarcón and Paula Mitchell, his law clerk and a professor at Loyola Law School.

The situation is now so severe, voters must choose to pay higher taxes or abolish the death penalty, the authors say.

The study's release comes at a time when fiscal policy is a hot topic in California. And the state's $26 billion deficit is already hitting the criminal justice system.

Gov. Jerry Brown announced in April that he is canceling the long-planned construction of a new housing facility for condemned inmates at the state's infamous San Quentin prison.

With a backlog of 714 prisoners currently on death row, Alarcón and Mitchell call California's capital punishment system "dysfunctional," and "a debacle."

The rare comprehensive review of the state's death row costs estimates that prosecuting death penalty cases is $184 million more expensive every year than if those cases had been life without parole prosecutions.

"Nobody can really with a straight face say this is a system that is working," Mitchell said in an interview.

The state attorney general's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

[username]

See?!?! I've never really researched this but I've always gotten the impression that it costs us wayyyyyyyyyy more to put someone to death than to house them for life. Is that only true in California? I could go look but I'm lazy.

No fucking way would I vote to pay higher taxes to retain the death penalty (and continue to pay that much money to execute a prisoner). Fuck that. I'd vote to abolish it if we can't fix the damn system.

[sally]

Replace with muriatic acid problem solved.

I've seen that shit SMOKE.

I use it sometimes etching gunite and for soldering copper roofs. Nasty stuff.

I got some on my ankles once while cleaning the stone pavers in my backyard. It's not as bad as I thought it would be, my feet didn't fall off or anything.

[username]

I was googling death penalty costs and found this article (it's from Fox News so you know it has to be true):

Just or Not, Cost of Death Penalty Is a Killer for State Budgets
By Ed Barnes

Published March 27, 2010

| FOXNews.com

Every time a killer is sentenced to die, a school closes.

That is the broad assessment of a growing number of studies taking a cold, hard look at how much the death penalty costs in the 35 states that still have it.

Forget justice, morality, the possibility of killing an innocent man or any of the traditional arguments that have been part of the public debate over the death penalty. The new one is this:

The cost of killing killers is killing us.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/03/27/jus...e-budgets/

[Lady Cop]

victim: a 78-year-old woman who was brutally raped in her Savannah apartment more than 30 years ago ... she died of heart failure during rape.



AJC
An attorney for a man whose execution appeared to have been botched has asked Georgia’s chief justice to stop any more lethal injections until the Department of Corrections investigates what went wrong Thursday night.

Attorney Brian Kammer also wrote Corrections Commissioner Brian Owens on Friday asking for “an immediate independent investigation into what appear to have been serious problems attending the execution.”

Roy Blankenship was put to death Thursday night for the murder of 78-year-old Sarah Mims Bowen in Savannah 33 years ago. In that execution, Georgia used a new sedative, pentobarbital, as the first of three drugs.

According to witnesses, Blankenship grimaced, jerked, lunged from side-to-side, gasped and appeared to yell out during the three minutes immediately after the first drug was administered.
Witnesses said his eyes remained open until the end, as had been the case with the two previous executions.


i agree...bring back the electric chair.

[Lady Cop]

A convicted child killer, branded among the 'worst of the worst' by a state clemency official, for the 1988 murder of a nine-year-old girl, has been executed.

Richard Lynn Bible, 49, was executed by lethal injection at the state prison in Florence, Arizona, about 60 miles south-east of Phoenix, and pronounced dead at 11.11am local time.

Bible has spent more than two decades on death row since he was convicted of snatching Jennifer Wilson from her bicycle in Flagstaff, molesting her and bludgeoning her to death.

His last words were: 'I'd like to thank my family, my lawyer. Love 'em all and everything's OK,' Barrett Marson, an Arizona Department of Corrections spokesman, told reporters.

Bible requested a final meal of fried eggs with melted cheese, gravy with sausage, hash brown potatoes, biscuits, grape jelly, peanut butter and chocolate milk.

[BlueTiki]

I was living in Flagstaff when this happened.

The town wanted a lynching. I knew the prosecutor.

Ironically, her last name was Bibles, too. Sharp gal. No relation.

I knew his defense attorney, too. Great guy. Court appointed.

People shunned him while the trial was taking place. After the conviction, all hugs and smiles.

Small towns are funny that way.

[Lady Cop]

AP

Chicago – After spending years at the center of heated national debate over capital punishment, Illinois' death row officially died Friday when a state law abolishing the death penalty quietly took effect.

The state garnered international attention when then-Republican Gov. George Ryan declared a moratorium in 2000 after several inmates' death sentences were overturned and he cleared death row three years later. One man who came within 48 hours of being executed was among those later declared innocent.

The fate of executions in the state was sealed in March when Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn signed legislation ending the death penalty, following years of stories of men sentenced to death for crimes they did not commit and families of murder victims angrily demanding their loved ones' killers pay with their own lives.

Illinois has executed 12 men since 1977, when the death penalty was reinstated, but none since 1999.

Quinn subsequently commuted the sentences of the 15 men on death row to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Fourteen are now in maximum security prisons, while one is in a medium-high security prison with a mental health facility.

[Lady Cop]

rest of story at link:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/07/03/texa...?hpt=ju_c2


The case of Humberto Leal Garcia Jr. is pending at the U.S. Supreme Court, which will decide whether to issue a stay of execution and whether to decide the broader legal question of what rights death row inmates from foreign nations deserve.

The Monterrey, Mexico, native's supporters say his fate could impact those Americans traveling abroad who, like Hayes, run into legal trouble.

The 38-year-old Leal was convicted of raping Adria Sauceda, a 16-year-old girl in San Antonio, then fatally strangling and bludgeoning her with a 35-pound piece of asphalt in 1994.

What makes his conviction unusual is that after his arrest he was not informed about access to the Mexican consulate he should have had under a binding international treaty. His appellate lawyers argue such access could at the very least have kept Leal off death row.

"I think in most of these cases it was not a deliberate thing. Local police lack training on (the Vienna Convention)," Sandra Babcock, Leal's defense lawyer of three years, told CNN in a phone interview.

Babcock argues Mexican officials would have ensured Leal had the most competent trial defense possible, if they had been able to speak with him right after his felony arrest.

Leal's backers say he has learning disabilities, brain damage and suffered from sexual abuse at the hands of his parish priest. They claim he did not learn of his consular access rights until two years after his capital conviction, and not from any official, but from a fellow prisoner.

[Lady Cop]

Humberto Leal, 38, a native of Monterrey, Mexico was convicted of the 1994 rape and murder of Adria Sauceda, 16, whose naked body was found with a large stick protruding from her. She had been bitten and her head crushed by a lump of asphalt.
"There was a 30- to 40-pound asphalt rock roughly twice the size of the victim's skull lying partially on the victim's left arm," court documents read. "Blood was underneath this rock. A smaller rock with blood on it was located near the victim's right thigh. There was a gaping hole from the corner of the victim's right eye extending to the center of her head from which blood was oozing. The victim's head was splattered with blood."

A "bloody and broken" stick roughly 15 inches long with a screw at the end of it was also protruding from the girl's vagina, according to the documents.



obama needs to butt out.



The execution of a Mexican national on U.S. ground scheduled for Thursday has become something of an international brouhaha.

President Obama, the State Department and Mexico, have all asked Texas for a last-minute reprieve of Humberto Leal, 38, who was convicted in 1995 in the brutal raping and murder of a teenage girl. Citing the U.N.-enforced 1963 Vienna Treaty, the officials believe Leal could have altered his penalty had he been given the chance.



the victim, Adria Sauceda

[Lady Cop]

well that fucker is dead.

[BlueTiki]

Good for Texas. And fuck Obama. Why didn't he pardon him? Fucking Mexican panderer.

Humberto had his bite at the apple.

I hoped he choked on his last meal.

[Lady Cop]

"One more thing," he said as the drugs began taking effect. Then he shouted twice, "Viva Mexico!".

[Neo]

I am all for the death penalty, in fact in cases of no doubt I am not above torturing their ass and making em wish they were dead first.

[Neo]

Oops sorry didn't notice I could edit.

[Lady Cop]

(CNN) -- "I cannot tell you that I am an innocent man. I am not asking you to feel sorry for me, and I won't hide the truth," Mark Anthony Stroman said from Texas death row at the Polunsky Correctional Unit in Livingston. "I am a human being and made a terrible mistake out of love, grief and anger, and believe me, I am paying for it every single minute of the day."

The 41-year-old prisoner is scheduled to be executed Wednesday for a murder he once said was fueled by "patriotism," but which the state argued was motivated by pure hatred.

The admitted white supremacist was convicted in the deadly shooting of an Indian man, part of a killing spree that began just after the September 11 terror attacks. His target: those he believed were of Middle Eastern background, in revenge and retaliation for the worst domestic terror incident in U.S. history.

A Pakistani man was also murdered and a Bangladeshi man was seriously wounded in separate attacks.







http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...-9-11.html

[Lady Cop]

there will be 2 today, Tx. (post above) and GA.


The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A Fulton County judge has ordered that an execution scheduled for Wednesday be videotaped after hearing claims from attorneys that the state’s new lethal injection procedure may cause needless pain and suffering.

A federal judge has denied Cobb County killer Andrew Grant DeYoung's request for a stay of his execution tonight, dismissing his lawsuit that sought the delay on grounds the state's lethal injection procedure could cause needless pain and suffering.

Georgia Department of Correction Andrew DeYoung was sentenced to death for killing his 41-year-old parents and 14-year-old sister in the family's northeast Cobb home in 1993.

DeYoung is scheduled to be put to death at 7 p.m. at the Georgia prison in Jackson. He was sentenced to death for killing his 41-year-old parents and 14-year-old sister in the family's northeast Cobb home in 1993.

[BlueTiki]

I marvel at those who decry the death penalty as Un-Constitutional. Cruel and unusual punishment and the depriving of life and liberty . . . yadda, yadda .

Thomas Jefferson believed in both hanging and poisoning. Maiming, too.

Odd, isn’t it? A contributor to the Constitution and his views are ignored.

Here’s a sample from 1778:

“If any person commit Petty treason, or a husband murder his wife, a parent his child, or a child his parent, he shall suffer death by hanging, and his body be delivered to Anatomists to be dissected.

Whosoever committeth murder by poisoning shall suffer death by poison.

Whosoever committeth murder by way of duel, shall suffer death by hanging; and if he were the challenger, his body, after death, shall be gibbeted. He who removeth it from the gibbet shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; and the officer shall see that it be replaced.

Whosoever shall commit murder in any other way shall suffer death by hanging.

Whosoever on purpose and of malice forethought shall maim another, or shall disfigure him, by cutting out or disabling the tongue, slitting or cutting off a nose, lip or ear, branding, or otherwise, shall be maimed or disfigured in like sort: or if that cannot be for want of the same part, then as nearly as may be in some other part of at least equal value and estimation in the opinion of a jury and moreover shall forfiet one half of his lands and goods to the sufferer.”

Yeah . . . they had no idea what constituted justice or punishment.

[Lady Cop]

post #97. he's dead.

From the death chamber, Stroman asked for God's grace and said hate in the world had to stop.

'Even though I lay on this gurney, seconds away from my death, I am at total peace,' he said.

He later called himself 'still a proud American, Texas loud, Texas proud.'

'God bless America. God bless everyone,' he added, then turned to the warden and said: 'Let's do this damn thing.'


post #98 got a 24 hour delay to debate taping of execution. --->

JACKSON -- With a video camera recording his last moments, Andrew Grant DeYoung was executed Thursday night at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center for killing three family members.
Georgia Department of Correction Andrew DeYoung was sentenced to death for killing his 41-year-old parents and 14-year-old sister in the family's northeast Cobb home in 1993.
DeYoung was declared dead at 8:04 p.m., fewer than 15 minutes after the process began. Lying prone, he barely moved throughout the execution. His parting words were: "I'm sorry for everyone I've hurt."

For the first time in Georgia, a videographer was present in the execution chamber, documenting DeYoung's death and his reaction to a new three-drug lethal injection that anti-death penalty activists said caused unnecessary pain and suffering. The videographer, accompanied by a woman taking notes, stood off to the side and was barely visible to witnesses.

DeYoung, however, only blinked his eyes and swallowed repeatedly, and showed no violent signs in death. He was checked by a nurse for consciousness shortly into the execution, a new procedure put in place. At 8:22 p.m., he was taken from the prison in a black Butts County Coronor van.