DEATH ROW--death penalty in America

[Lady Cop]

An axe murderer who bludgeoned a woman to death during a botched home burglary today became the state of Delaware's first inmate to be executed since 2005.

Robert Jackson III, 38, was put to death by lethal injection at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna and pronounced dead at 12.12am.

He lifted his head when asked for his last words shortly after midnight.

Searching the window between the execution chamber and witnesses, he asked if the two children of his victim, Elizabeth Girardi, were watching.

He said: 'Are the Girardis in there? Christopher and Claudia, if you are in there, I've never faulted you for your anger. I would have been mad myself.'

He denied to them that he had killed their mother and suggested, in his last moments, that his accomplice in the burglary Anthony Lachette was the murderer.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z1TVKoPhzE

[Lady Cop]

sorry...dead now. don't bother to write.

executed last night. adios.




Martin Robles # 999457

Polunsky Unit D.R.
3872 FM 350 South
Livingston, Texas

Hello. My name is Martin Robles and I am looking for a penpal. I am from Corpus Christi, Texas and seeking someone who is cool with writing a death row inmate in their spare time.

I am a 25 year old Mexican who was wrongfully convicted and condemned to die for a double homicide involving gang members.I have lil faith in the judicial system for I am a gang member myself and gang members just don't win. So I've accepted my fate and would like to make new friends before I pass away.

I'm 5'6'' with tattoos, bullet wounds, scars, and a pretty smile.I weigh about 180 and work out to stay in shape. I'm an ex-convict so I've spent 6 years in prison before for a murder conviction when I was 17 years of age. I got to spend 13 months of freedom before I was set up by the cops.

I like to fight, shoot dice, and explore the club scene. I like drinking on occasion and love sex. I've been incarcerated most of my adult life, so there's lots of thing I've never experienced but I regret nothing.

I come from a loving family and wish to spend my remaining years getting to know someone as a friend. With that said, I leave as I came, with smiles and good intents.

Martin Robles

[Lady Cop]

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A Chatham County judge on Tuesday signed a death warrant for Troy Anthony Davis, who was convicted of killing a Savannah police officer in 1989.

The warrant sets the execution between Sept. 21 and Sept. 28. The state Department of Corrections will set the actual date. Davis has been on death row for 19 years.

Davis' appeals are exhausted. He is expected to once again ask the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles to grant him clemency. The board has previously denied that request.

Davis, 41, was convicted of killing off-duty police Officer Mark Allen MacPhail 21 years ago as MacPhail ran to the aid of a homeless man being pistol-whipped outside a Burger King.

The case has attracted international attention because a number of key prosecution witnesses either recanted or backed off their trial testimony. Other witnesses have come forward and said another man at the scene told them he was the actual killer.

In August, a federal judge emphatically rejected Davis' claims that he was wrongly convicted. In a 172-page order, U.S. District Judge William T. Moore Jr. said Davis failed to prove his innocence during an extraordinary hearing in June ordered by the U.S. Supreme Court.

MacPhail, 27 and a father of two, was gunned down before he could draw his weapon. After the killing, Sylvester "Redd" Coles went to the police with his lawyer and told them he and Davis were at the scene. At trial, he testified he was fleeing the scene when shots were fired, leaving Davis as the culprit. Coles denied being the triggerman.

At the June hearing, Davis' lawyers wanted to call witnesses who had given sworn statements that Coles had told them after the trial he was the actual killer. But Moore did not allow these witnesses to testify because Davis' lawyers did not subpoena Coles to testify. If they had, the judge said, he could have tested the validity of Coles' alleged confessions.

If Coles had in fact confessed to these witnesses, Moore suggested there could be an explanation --"he believed that his reputation as a dangerous individual would be enhanced if he took credit for murdering Officer MacPhail." Davis failed to prove the alleged confessions were truthful, Moore noted.

Of the seven witnesses Davis' legal team say recanted their trial testimony, "only one is a meaningful, credible recantation." The value of this recantation -- given by a jailhouse snitch who testified Davis told him he killed MacPhail -- is diminished because it was already clear the witness testified falsely at trial, the judge said.

Moore answered one question posed to him by the U.S. Supreme Court. He found that executing an innocent person would violate the Eighth Amendment's ban against cruel and unusual punishment.

"However, Mr. Davis is not innocent," the U.S. district judge wrote in August.

Chatham County Superior Court Judge Penny Freesemann signed the death warrant Tuesday.

[Lady Cop]

Texas will execute 4 within next 2 weeks. this guy went yesterday.



A man who was convicted for his involvement in the slayings of two people in north Texas was executed on Tuesday, even though an alleged accomplice admitted to the killings.

Steven Michael Woods, 31, was convicted in the shooting and slashing of a young Dallas-area couple under a controversial Texas law that allows a defendant to be put to death for a murder someone else committed.

he was a party to the crime, so he's just as guilty. there's nothing 'controversial' about it. it's well-established law.

[Lady Cop]

re: post 103

there were big demonstrations to spare the cop killer last several days.

CNN
The Georgia Board of Pardons and Parole has denied clemency for death-row inmate Troy Davis.

Davis was convicted of the 1989 killing of Savannah, Georgia, police officer Mark MacPhail.

Davis is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at a state prison in Jackson, Georgia.

"Monday September 19, 2011, the State Board of Pardons and Paroles met to consider a clemency request from attorneys representing condemned inmate Troy Anthony Davis. After considering the request, the Board has voted to deny clemency," the board said in a statement Tuesday morning.

The five-member parole board votes in a secret ballot.

Davis has gained international support for his long-standing claim that he did not kill MacPhail. International figures including Pope Benedict XVI, Desmond Tutu, and former President Jimmy Carter, entertainers such as Susan Sarandon, Harry Belafonte, and the Indigo Girls, and others have joined with Amnesty International, the NAACP and other groups in supporting Davis' efforts to be exonerated.

He has been scheduled to die three times before, most recently in October 2008, when the U.S. Supreme Court granted a stay two hours before he was to be executed.

murdered Officer Mark MacPhail


The mother of a murdered police officer reacted with caution when she got the news Tuesday morning that the state Board of Pardons and Paroles had declined to commute the death sentence of Troy Anthony Davis, the man condemned for killing her son.

"We've been here three times before," said Anneliese MacPhail, mother of Mark Allen MacPhail, who was shot to death while working a second job in 1989. "This is our fourth time [to face an execution date] so you get kind of weary of it and [I] don’t know if I can believe this. We are ready to close this book and start our lives. This has been a long haul."



LOUDMOUTH ASSHOLE WHO NEVER MET A CAMERA, MIC OR COP-KILLING NIGGER HE DIDN'T LIKE--->

[BlueTiki]

The case has attracted international attention because a number of key prosecution witnesses either recanted or backed off their trial testimony. Other witnesses have come forward and said another man at the scene told them he was the actual killer.

How convenient . . . over a decade later and the story changes.

If he is pardoned, will they then prosecute these assholes for perjury or obstruction?

Will those who are rallying for his release demand justice for those who wrongfully accused him?

Hell no.

They'll blame the deepest pockets.

[BlueTiki]

Clemency Denied!

Good.

Parole board denies clemency to Troy Davis

http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/parole-b...84011.html

[Cracker]

I blame Obama, too.

Hate it when a brother won't give you a hookup.

[Maggot]

Goodnight sucka!

[Lady Cop]

2 stays


this one looks like a con from central casting :O





The United States Supreme Court on Tuesday granted a temporary stay of execution to Cleve Foster, a former Army recruiter who was convicted of killing a woman he met in a Fort Worth bar.

It was the second time this year that Mr. Foster, who had been scheduled to be executed Tuesday evening in Texas, had been spared by the court hours before his appointed death.
The reprieve for Mr. Foster, 47, will remain in place while the court examines whether he received effective counsel during the course of his case


And Monday, the Supreme Court delayed the execution of Daniel W. Cook, who is on death row in Arizona and was scheduled to be executed on Tuesday. Lawyers for Mr. Cook, who has also been convicted of murdering two people, have said his initial lawyers failed to present evidence of extreme physical and sexual abuse in his childhood.

cook--->

[Cracker]

I hate when they don't kill these folks. haha (Cracker = bad at Buddhism)

If we aren't going to kill them, they should be out doing roadwork and shit. Why feed these pieces of human flotsam? Make them work. For free. Forever. Fuckers. (alliteration)

[Cracker]

How convenient . . . over a decade later and the story changes.

If he is pardoned, will they then prosecute these assholes for perjury or obstruction?

Will those who are rallying for his release demand justice for those who wrongfully accused him?

Hell no.

They'll blame the deepest pockets.

I don't know why people are forgetting Troy Davis shot someone else on the same day. Oh, and was beating a homeless man with a gun which attracted the attention of the off-duty officer in the first damn place.

Earlier that day, Davis was involved in the shooting of another man during a road rage incident. That victim survived his injuries.

On August 19, Coles, went to police and implicated Davis in MacPhail’s killing. That same evening, one of Davis’ sisters drove Davis to Atlanta in an attempt to evade arrest.

But those facts have been lost amidst all the hand wringing and protesting by Davis’s supporters.


I love these two comments. They show how diverse we are in the South:

Kapinatl said, “Over 2000 years ago a man who was also accused was put to death by a crowd who shouted 'crucify him' much like what I have read above. I am curious as to how many of you who feel this man should die attend church?”

Andy W said, “So he admits shooting the first man in the face, then pistol whipping the homeless man; the defense is now trying to twist the testimony to indicate doubt. This man had a fair trial and was found guilty, nothing that the defense has used proves the jury was wrong. This case has been reviewed and reviewed, carry out the jury's sentence.”

Hahahahahahaha! Gotta love Georgia. Black folks bitching when their homey gets caught shooting people up, comparing this POS to Jesus. JESUS! hahahahahaha

[BlueTiki]

I love these two comments. They show how diverse we are in the South . . .

The same diversity in experienced in Los Angeles during OJ.

And Jesus didn't wear glasses!

Dumbfucks.

[Lady Cop]

today in Texas. this was a terrible case. victim James Byrd's head was torn off.

(CNN) -- One of three men convicted for his involvement in the infamous dragging death of a black man 13 years ago is scheduled to be executed Wednesday.

Lawrence Russell Brewer, 44, is scheduled to die by lethal injection in the killing of James Byrd.

Brewer and two other white men chained the 49-year-old black man to the back of a pickup truck and dragged him to death on a country road near Jasper, Texas.

Accomplice John William King also was sentenced to death and is awaiting an appeal. A third man, Shawn Berry, received life in prison.

Lawrence Russell Brewer, 44, is scheduled to die Wednesday by lethal injection in the killing of James Byrd.
A prosecutor called Brewer a racist psychopath during his 1999 trial.

During the trial, Brewer took the witness stand and contended that he was a bystander, not a killer.

He tearfully admitted being present when Byrd was dragged to his death but, he said, "I didn't mean to cause his death. I had no intentions of killing anybody."

Brewer, a former jailhouse Ku Klux Klan leader, said King initiated the killing by fighting with Byrd. He also said the third defendant, Berry, slashed Byrd's throat and then chained him to Berry's pickup. Brewer admitted kicking Byrd and spraying Byrd's face with black paint.

But he said it was a reflex action taken to try to break up the fight between Byrd and King.

The execution would be the 11^th this year in Texas, the most active death-penalty state.





victim James Byrd

[Lady Cop]

The scene outside the state prison in Jackson, where troy Davis' execution is to take place, is unlike any other previous execution in past years.

Television satellite trucks and media cars are parked bumper to bumper. Scores of death penalty opponents gathered in the area set aside for them, while one woman stands in an area cordoned off the those who support the death penalty. Security was tighter than at previous executions with numerous state patrol cars parked across from the prison.

[Cracker]

Is that Bill Clinton? hahahahha

This man is not innocent. I don't know if he killed the off-duty policeman (he was there, that's enough for me, and they matched the casings he left with the casings from earlier in the day when he shot someone else), but he did a bunch of other shit. And he's an effin liar. Kill him. Let the good people of this state spend that extra time and money helping people who are not fucking criminals.

Southern people are mostly retarded.

Black people spend a majority of their time killing other black people. They just get pissy when someone else kills one of their own. It just amazes me. Seriously, something wrong with that culture.

[Duchess]

Is that Bill Clinton?

Where?!

That was the first thing I thought when I read your words.

[Cracker]

Tick-tock.

Georgia Supreme Court denied hearing any more arguments, up to the US Supreme Court now. They better not touch this. They had ballistics evidence...

Thank goodness the prison isn't in the ATL area. We don't want to give the darkies any reason to start "shopping." hahahaha

[Cracker]

I think the US Supreme Court just rejected his plea.

He was out of appeals, anyway.

Uhoh, I hear cheering. Did they stop it?

[Cracker]

Jesus Fucking Christ. I think they stopped it, or at least didn't act.