DEATH ROW--death penalty in America

[Duchess]

can you imagine the horror those ladies/girls suffered as they were thrown overboard? how cruel.

Yeah, to an extent I can. The same way I can when I think about Dr. Petit's wife and daughters. The fear they all must have felt bothers me a great deal if I think about it too much. I've been plenty scared before but nothing that compares to what they all must have felt.

[Lady Cop]

(post 155)
4 PM eastern today. i'll be thinking of them. each one had to watch as the others were raped and thrown overboard. the needle is simply too easy for this monster. he was able to live 17 more years of his life.

this is chandler at trial.



caught by his handwriting.


In 1992, as authorities searched for the killer of the Rogers family, they put a sample of the suspect’s handwriting on billboards in the Tampa Bay area. Some of Oba Chandler’s neighbors said they recognized the handwriting as his. 



murder boat

[Lady Cop]

an excellent slideshow of chandler through the years, the crime, evidence and trial.
fucker had a few sandwiches for his last meal. no spiritual advisor, no visitors attending.

http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2011/ph..._Chandler/

[Duchess]

Sometimes being a civilized society has its drawbacks. I want there to be "special" punishment for people like this...an eye for an eye.

Monsters should have to die in the same manner as their victims.

[Lady Cop]

filthy cockroach is dead.

The execution began at 4:08 p.m. and Chandler was pronounced at 4:25 p.m., hours after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review Chandler's case. He was 65. He gave no final statement and kept his eyes closed during the execution.

[Lady Cop]

anyone remember this horrific case?

A convicted murderer who brutally stabbed a nine-year-old boy in a public restroom in 1998 has killed himself in his death row cell.

Brandon Wilson, 33, a drifter from Wisconsin, Ohio, was found hanging inside in his cell in San Quentin State Prison, California on Thursday.

His death is 13 years to the week that he attacked Matthew Cecchi in a restroom in Oceanside, California while the boy's aunt waited outside.

Wilson had been camping when he felt ‘the time had come to kill a person’, according to a confession statement read in court.

He followed the youngster, who was on a family reunion, to the bathroom after watching him in a nearby playground.

Wilson slit his throat with a hunting knife and stabbed him five times in the back as the little boy stood at a urinal.

When his aunt grew concerned that Matthew had not come out, she went inside and found him bleeding to death on the bathroom floor.

A prison spokeswoman said Wilson was found hanging inside his cell and pronounced dead at 6:47 a.m. He was alone in his single-person cell, she added.
He is the 19^th death row inmate to commit suicide since California reinstated capital punishment in 1978, according to the Department of Corrections.
That means more condemned inmates have died of suicide than the 13 prisoners who have been executed in the state since 1978. There are currently 719 inmates on death row in California.

[Red_velvet71]

filthy cockroach is dead.

The execution began at 4:08 p.m. and Chandler was pronounced at 4:25 p.m., hours after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review Chandler's case. He was 65. He gave no final statement and kept his eyes closed during the execution.

Yayy..........Satan gets to deal with the scum bag now.

[Lady Cop]

bleeding heart hippie freak.



(CNN) -- Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber blocked the execution of a death row inmate on Tuesday and said no more executions will take place in the state as long as he is governor.

He issued a temporary reprieve in the case of Gary Haugen, who was reportedly scheduled to be put to death next month.

"It is time for Oregon to consider a different approach. I refuse to be a part of this compromised and inequitable system any longer; and I will not allow further executions while I am governor," he said in a statement.

Oregon has 37 inmates on death row, some of whom have been there for more than 20 years. Kitzhaber did not commute their sentences, he said, because: "The policy of this state on capital punishment is not mine alone to decide." He urged lawmakers to bring potential reforms before the 2013 legislative session.

[Lady Cop]

see how much THIS burns your ass:

LATimes

Danny Robbie Hembree considers himself a gentleman of leisure. He enjoys color TV, air conditioning and abundant food. He naps pretty much whenever he feels like it.

He also happens to live on death row at Central Prison in Raleigh, N.C. But that’s not a bad thing, he wrote in a taunting letter to his hometown newspaper, the Gaston Gazette.

In fact, Hembree wrote, the state of North Carolina has taken the "death" out of death row.

"Kill me if you can, suckers. Ha! Ha! Ha!" Hembree gloated in his letter, portions of which were published by the Gazette on Tuesday.

Hembree, 50, was sentenced to death in November for suffocating a 17-year-old girl in 2009, and is also accused of killing two other North Carolina women. But no one has been executed in the state since 2006 because of legal challenges over lethal injections and whether a physician must oversee executions.

"Is the public aware that the chances of my lawful murder taking place in the next 20 years if ever are very slim?" Hembree wrote on lined notebook paper in what he described as an editorial.

Meanwhile, life is sweet. "Is the public aware I am a gentleman of leisure, watching color TV in the A.C., reading, taking naps at will, eating three well-balanced meals a day?" he wrote.

Oh, and he also receives free government healthcare, he pointed out.

The man who prosecuted Hembree, Gaston County Dist. Atty. Locke Bell, was not amused.

"He’s sitting down there looking at the law and laughing," Bell told the Associated Press. "He’s been sentenced to death. He shouldn’t be watching color TV." Hembree's execution should not be delayed, Bell said.

Bring it on, Hembree wrote: "I am a man who is ready to except [sic] his unjust punishment and face God Almighty with a clear conscience unlike you cowards and your cowardly system."

And lest readers dismiss Hembree as a complete sociopath, note that moments after he was convicted in November, he blew a big kiss to his mom.




more here:

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

[Cracker]

Jail food sucks.

Why should taxpayers pay for people in jail? They should get a bill when they get out. Or bring back the chain gangs!

[Duchess]

Or bring back the chain gangs!

We have a white bread version of that here. I see the big orange school buses, usually on the side of a highway and they are picking up trash.

[Lady Cop]

Jail food sucks.

Why should taxpayers pay for people in jail? They should get a bill when they get out. Or bring back the chain gangs!

you can't let death row prison inmates out to clean the roads. jail and prison are 2 different things.
i hate that the fuckers have color TV and A/C.
Sheriff Joe in AZ has chain gangs for jail inmates who are eligible.
some Sheriffs/jails across the country are making inmates pay their keep.

and yes the food sucks. hahahahaha. mmmmmm green bologna

[Lady Cop]

A federal judge temporarily blocked the execution of a Mississippi inmate who killed two men in a 1995 robbery spree.

The man's attorneys sought the order, not arguing guilt or innocence, but that corrections officials prevented the inmate from getting medical tests that could prove he is mentally ill.
Edwin Hart Turner, 38, had been scheduled to die by injection Wednesday.
turner's face is severely disfigured from a self-inflicted gunshot wound from a suicide attempt when he was 18, in which he put a rifle in his mouth and pulled the trigger, the lawyers said.


edit to add:
PARCHMAN, Miss. – A Mississippi inmate has been put to death for killing two men in a December 1995 robbery spree after the courts declined to stop the execution based on arguments that he was mentally ill.

Authorities say 38-year-old Edwin Hart Turner received a lethal injection Wednesday and died at 6:21 p.m. CST for his conviction in the slayings of Eddie Brooks and Everett Curry during a pair of gas station holdups. The spree netted Turner and accomplice Paul Murrell Stewart about $400.

[Lady Cop]

requested firing squad

Utah




SPANISH FORK — An execution warrant has been signed and an execution date set for Utah death row inmate Michael Anthony Archuleta.

Fourth District Judge Donald Eyre signed the warrant Wednesday, after determining that the man "has exhausted his right of appeal," according to court records. The date was set for April 5.

"It's not final if he chooses to proceed in federal court," said Tom Brunker, who heads the capital appeals division in the Utah Attorney General's Office. A federal appeals process — which can take many years — has not even begun in Archuleta's case.

Archuleta, 49, has requested to die by firing squad.

He was sentenced to death in connection with the Nov. 22, 1988, murder of Southern Utah University student Gordon Ray Church, 28. Church offered Archuleta and Lance Conway Wood, who were both on parole, a ride after meeting the pair at a gas station.

After driving into a nearby canyon, the two men had Church exit the vehicle on the premise of robbing him, but instead began to severely beat and torture the man before raping him with a tire iron and burying him in a shallow grave.

Wood told his parole officer and led investigators to the body the next day. He was ultimately sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Archuleta's most recent appeal — on the grounds that he had ineffective assistance of counsel in both his trial and subsequent appeals — was rejected by the Utah Supreme Court in November 2011.

Archuleta's mother, Stella, said Wednesday's hearing was "really, really hard." She said her son ruined his life with drugs and alcohol.


last one:

June 18, 2010

DRAPER, Utah (CBS/AP/KUTV) At 12:17 a.m. Friday, convicted killer Ronnie Lee Gardner was pronounced dead after a Utah firing squad fired a volley of bullets into the murderer's chest, where a target was pinned over his heart. It was the first execution by firing squad in the United States in 14 years.

[Lady Cop]

orlando sentinel

STARKE — A man convicted of raping a 29-year-old mother and dragging her into Tampa Bay's surf to drown more than three decades ago is scheduled to be executed today at Florida State Prison.

Twice-convicted murderer Robert Brian Waterhouse is set to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. He has been on death row for more than 31 years — longer than any inmate previously executed in Florida. Gov. Rick Scott signed his death warrant last month.

Waterhouse, 65, was convicted in 1980 of murdering Deborah Kammerer ofSt. Petersburg, whose body was found in the tidal flats of Tampa Bay. She'd been beaten, raped and dragged into the bay, where she drowned.

Unable to identify her immediately, police turned to the public for help. Neighbors identified Kammerer's body, and an anonymous tipster led police to Waterhouse, who had served eight years in prison for a murder in New York state.

A bartender had seen Kammerer and Waterhouse leave a St. Petersburg bar together. Blood, hair and fibers in Waterhouse's car were linked to the victim. Waterhouse admitted having sex with Kammerer but denied killing her.

her body was found nude the next morning in Lassing Park, on the shore of Tampa Bay — she was raped and violated with a beer bottle, a used tampon shoved down her throat, and how she was struck on the head more than 22 times before being left to drown in the surf.

[Lady Cop]

what a sordid awful slasher-movie tale! AZ.








In 1984, Robert Moormann confessed to smothering his mother while free from prison for a family visit and, standing naked in a hotel room, 'dissecting' her and hacking her body to bloody pieces.

But as his execution Wednesday draws near, the story of one of the most infamous and heinous murders in Arizona history has become even darker and more bizarre.

Moormann's lawyers claim the 63-year-old killer is mentally retarded and has the intellect and emotional capacity of a small child.

Furthermore, they argue, the attack was provoked by years of sexual abuse by his mother Maude Moormann -- even while he was in prison.

Prosecutors say before Robert Moormann dismembered his mother's body, he tied her to the bed in the Blue Mist Motel in Florence, Arizona, and beat her. He then suffocated her with a pillow.

Moormann was free from prison on a 72-hour furlough -- given to inmates some to see family members or for conjugal visits.
He was serving time for kidnapping a neighbor girl, 8, and trying to take her to Las Vegas in 1972. Along the way, he sexually abused her several times in dusty motels along the way.

Prosecutors say he wanted to abduct and rape the girl's mother, but lost his nerve and took the child instead, according to the Arizona Republic.

A jury convicted him of premeditated, unprovoked murder.
But Moormann's lawyers tell another story. They say his mother, the widow of a well-known businessman from Flagstaff, had been sexually abusing him for years -- forcing him to perform sex acts on her.

Maude was actually Moormann's adoptive mother. His biological mother, a 15-year-old hard-drinking prostitute, died in a car crash when she was 17.

They claim it was in the midst of a performing a sex act on his mother, age 72, that Moormann put a pillow over her face to keep her quiet.

Once she was dead, he went about meticulously trying to dispose of her body.

He put her body on the table of the motel and cut it to pieces.

He then carried the pieces to dumpsters around the town and disposed of them.

He was caught when he arrived at a local pizzeria and asked if he could dump 'cow guts' in the trash bin behind the business. The suspicious owner called the police.

He also stripped some of his mother's bones of their flesh and packed them in a box. He gave the box to a prison employee and said they were spoiled meat bones for the prison guard dogs.

The crime-scene photos are ghastly: Maude's head being lifted out of a garbage bag, her feet lying on a table like cobbler's forms, her bones in a bloody box.

All of this, the lawyers said, was the result of Moormann's severely diminished mental capacity.

His psychologists, and even fellow prison inmates, have testified that beneath his gruff voice, bald head and over-sized glasses, Moormann has the mental capacity of a small child and still maintains an infantile affect and demeanor.

Moormann's lawyers also cited his difficult early childhood in their defense of the killing.

His mother gave birth to him June 4, 1948 at the age of 15. His father soon abandoned him. At 17, his mother, an alcoholic and a prostitute, broke her neck in a car crash and died.

Moormann was passed to his grandparents, though he was soon removed to foster car because his grandfather was an uncontrollable alcoholic.

He passed in and out of foster homes before being adopted at age 2 by Henry and Maude Moormann.

Henry was reticent about adopting the child, but Maude's maternal instinct won over and the couple took him in.

The Moormanns were well-known in Flagstaff. Henry ran a taxi service in town.

But early on, family members told the Arizona Daily Sun, they saw trouble in Robert.

He was classified as mentally retarded in school and given special education classes.

When he was 13 he was committed to a state mental hospital after he shot his mother with a .22-caliber rifle.

Moormann claims he was simply taking the gun out to show it to his mother and that it fired accidentally. Family members aren't so sure that was the case.
When Henry Moormann died in 1967, Maude clung to her adopted son.

In 1972 at age 24, Robert Moormann kidnapped an eight-year-old neighbor girl.

Court testimony indicated he might have been more interested in the child's mother -- whom he wanted to rape -- but lost his nerve and snatched the girl from school.

Prosecutors alleged that he sexually abused the child as he carted her off to Las Vegas. However, he was never convicted of that.

Even after Moormann was convicted, Maude, now elderly, visited her son -- taking a bus more than three and a half hours from Flagstaff -- three times.

It was on her third visit that Moormann murdered her in the hotel room where they were staying.

It's a crime that still haunts her relatives -- even 27 years later.

Rex Gilliand, a distant relative of Maude, who knew Robert Moormann briefly, said the convicted murderer was a 'throwaway' child who never got the attention from most of the people in his life that other kids receive.

Maude was the only exception.

'The one person in the whole world who loved him unconditionally, he kills brutally,' Mr Gilliland told the Daily Sun.

[Lady Cop]

two today. post 176 ^

and one of the Texas 7 prison escapees. i remember the intense manhunt for the gang. all scum of the earth.

The ringleader of a notorious gang who masterminded the biggest prison escape in Texan history and killed a cop will be executed today, wednesday.

George Rivas, 41, leader of ‘Texas Seven’, faces lethal injection for gunning down police officer Aubrey Hawkins on Christmas Eve 2000. The father-of-one, from Irving, was shot 11 times after interrupting the gang's robbery of a sports store.

The gang stole $70,000 in cash, along with 44 firearms and ammunition, winter clothing, jewelery and wallets from employees who were in the process of closing up for the evening.








murdered Police Officer Aubrey Hawkins

[Lady Cop]

[Nickdaflameperson]

Now why do you want me to get mad with this thread? and I am a so so so so peaceful person,deep down inside.

Anyone that believes that death penalty is fair , or that jail is fair, then he or she is a fucken sheep cause he or she, judges with different way each day.

Let's take as true that anyone commiting a crime should die or get inside jail...ok..why then politicians, soldiers, army officers at war, don't get thrown in jail or been convicted for murder? fine example is Afganistan, I haven't seen any soldier or officer to get convicted and plus WITH death penalty for killing and abusing their the locals.


Let's go to another view now, we take again that it's true the whole thing about jail and death penalthy, why is America still free then? It's above doubt that USA has commited lots of crimes towards humanity and it should be locked down and forced death penalthy to her....and because everybody is responsible, why then don't they just extinguish us from the face of Earth?

Let's take England, they own nuclear war heads, they use nuclear power, I say its criminal activity, being legit from other criminals that do the same activity, so since everybody is criminal in this situation and they also have the power in their hands , they pass it for legit, but I say they are criminals and they should instead of locked down to be sentenced with a quick death penalthy. You don't agreee of course. Hehe..

Now let's take Yemen, actually a third world country...just like yemen is...why should any kind of third world country , that the p eople there reproduce like rabbits, to exist on Earth, the people..not the country. I believe that since some people are just lazy...like Yemen one's are, chewing all the time that qat or so, they should all be sentenced to death..then we would have more resources for ourself's...

And next..why to have countries with deep economical recession trouble us? I believe that only the strong survive as it goes in jungle laws and that only strong countries with strong people should be able to exist on Earth..right ?..

I believe Adolf had the same idea, but that shouldn't trouble anyone as ...it's obvious that you are not troubled by the way they guide you. Are you Jews?

[JsMom]

damn! Welp, either way he's dead.