DEATH ROW--death penalty in America

[Lady Cop]

do those tweeters know that a white man was executed tonight for the heinous murder of a black man?

there may be a method to the Court's madness, it has been very quiet since earlier this evening. no outbursts of violence as feared. it has NEVER taken over 3 hours to vacate a stay.

davis is dead now. 11:08

[Cracker]

TashaStillGotIt RT @TheRealMiaX: I'm really thinking about Troy Davis mother no wants 2 lose a child Especially 1 Murdered by the system with no evidence of Guilt

applestoshawty RIP Troy Davis Man Fuck The Police

ulisesharo RT @HairWeav_Killa: If you didnt know ol dude Troy Davis personally, stfu, just like that Casey Anthony shit...yall just want something to bitch about (hahaha white kid)

callmeparks Why all of this "RIP Troy Davis"...? how about RIP Mark MacPhail... you know, the cop he was convicted of killing 22 years ago! #tcot #p2 (white)

Seashore_CeeJay Troy davis got it in the butt just a few minutes ago by a goon named sugar bear (black chick, hmm)

DerrickRankin RT @Miss_Niquee: This Troy Davis execution will cause riots (black answer to every damn thing ~ RIOT!)

iloveyuB sum ppl r dumb af; if it was yo ass sittin on death row you would want sumone to do the same for you as they are for Troy Davis !!

Fung5 minutes ago
All you phucking conservative racists are going to burn in hell for your hatred, just like that racist cop MacPhail. I have no doubt in my mind that the "good ole boy" who was shot and killed was a worthless POS racist, just like all you other white trash spewing crap on here.

PearlsNPanties May Troy Davis' death not be in vain... (yes, tard, i will take what you say seriously. jesus)

LipGlossJunkie RT @pretty_lil_rae: This is a lesson for all black males do something with yourself so you won't be in the system facing issues like troy Davis (word)

And a final thought:

SupremeGee RT @hisHIGHnesss: done tweetin bout it cuh..smoke one for Troy Davis..saul you can do..

[username]

Yeah. I almost see these last minute appeals as cruel and unusual punishment. If we're going to execute them, let's not leave them strapped to a gurney for hours while we figure this shit out. I know, they might not have given their victims the same consideration but just do it.

[Cracker]

do those tweeters know that a white man was executed tonight for the heinous murder of a black man?

there may be a method to the Court's madness, it has been very quiet since earlier this evening. no outbursts of violence as feared. it has NEVER taken over 3 hours to vacate a stay.

davis is dead now. 11:08

Rather than educate themselves about the facts of the case, these folks just get riled and want to blame the cops and the government. Was this beyond a reasonable doubt? I have to think it was because he had a ton of appeals that were all denied. There was evidence. Was it the best evidence? That I can't answer. He wouldn't be dead right now if he didn't shoot someone else in the face on the same day, that is what fucked him and supplied the casing evidence.

I'm not happy he's dead. I don't think I like death too much, for anybody. He maybe didn't deserve to die as much as the dude who dragged that poor man to death. He probably got the death penalty because it was an off-duty cop. You take your chances when you kill someobody else.

I'll reserve my sympathy for the families of the victims. Both families, white and black, who got justice today.

[Cracker]

This was written by a lady who worked for the NAACP for a few months back in 2009. Ben Jealous is the President of NAACP:

"For example, not long after I started work, Ben Jealous appeared as a panelist on HBO's "Real Time, with Bill Maher." He turned up in Maher's Southern Cal studio on June 12, 2009, wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan for the NAACP's "Save Troy Davis" campaign, it read "IAMTROYDAVIS.com." (Yeah, you want snappy messaging? ColorOfChange.org this ain't.) Troy Davis is a black man convicted several years ago of the shooting death of a white policeman in Georgia, and the NAACP had joined forces with Amnesty International and a few other human rights organizations to try to get a new trial for Davis. I won't go into the complicated and, frankly, ambiguous details of the Davis case here. But I will say that I dug in on writing op-ed after op-ed in support of this effort largely because I do believe America's criminal justice system often unfairly locks up black men.

Is Troy Davis truly innocent? You got me. And, as I sat in on phone calls with Vampira, the association's legal partners, and activists in Georgia, it eventually became clear to me that the NAACP couldn't be entirely positive, either, that Davis was innocent."

They knew he wasn't innocent, but they did it anyway; raised all kinds of hell and made black people more angry at white people FOR NO GOOD REASON, just to be doing it. The NAACP is one of the most damaging organizations out there. It manufactures hate.

[Cracker]

The headlines today say, "White Supremacist Executed" and "Troy Davis Executed." Why don't they say "Murdering Nigger Executed?"

Why?

I'm not an apologist. That white guy was scum AND that black guy was scum.

Sorry, LC. The black people at the grocery store looked all angry today. But they swiped the card anyway, so I guess they will get over it...

[Lady Cop]

i'm just glad they aren't looting Atlanta businesses.

[Cracker]

What happened is way worse, LC. There is distrust and anger now, more than usual. The black folks really did look pissed at the store today. I know I say everything with a smartass bent, but it is true.

The NAACP manufactured the doubt so now black people think white people are killing innocent black men. They skewed it. That asshole shot someone in the face, beat that homeless man WITH THE GUN he shot officer McPhail with. There was no doubt. A bunch of people saw him. Then the NAACP gets to working on the witnesses (let's be real, officer was working security in a black area of town so the witnesses were black) and makes them feel guilty about telling on Davis. They didn't really recant, none of them recanted on the record in a courtroom, they were badgered by the NAACP and Amnesty International until they fudged a little. Who wouldn't cave under that black pressure?

Wake up, America. Stop feeling guilty about shit that YOU DIDN'T DO and that happened over a HUNDRED YEARS AGO and make EVERY person be responsible for their own life and their own actions.

Fuck you black people playing the race card. I am FUCKING SICK OF IT. Truly, fuck you. Find another excuse to be a piece of shit, you aren't going to blame me for doing OK and taking care of my family. You are more than welcome to do the same.

[Lady Cop]

there has always been distrust and anger, from the NAACP which started out to do good, to the sharptons and jacksons of this world who never let the pot stop boiling. there will be another cause soon enough while davis rots. the race card will always be played, even when slavery is a very distant memory. it's too convenient an excuse for being a worthless thug.

and thankfully there ARE black people who recognize that their quality of life was always entirely up to them despite Jim Crow and the klan and the past. and some will guide their children to do well in the world.

[Cracker]

and thankfully there ARE black people who recognize that their quality of life was always entirely up to them despite Jim Crow and the klan and the past. and some will guide their children to do well in the world.

Those folks are the only true victims in all of this. They are judged by the behavior and attitude of others. They get lumped in. Same for white trash, I guess. All poor whites are considered trashy, even if they aren't.

I hate to tell you, LC, those folks feel the same way. I am close to some folks of color. They feel the same way, they just don't let it affect their livlihood. Even if they don't experience racism firsthand, they are surrounded by that culture and are still a part of it. I will hear about Troy Davis on Monday. I will see a "I AM TROY DAVIS" t-shirt. I will want to ask why they want to identify themselves with a criminal, but I won't.

Troy Davis will be mentioned in every sermon of every black church in the South on Sunday. The words "innocent" and "murdered" will be used. The good people will have that shit pushed down their throats. That is how racism lives: On both sides of the street.

[Lady Cop]

the menu has changed.
lengthy, but read some of these last meals---->

AP
HOUSTON — Texas inmates who are set to be executed will no longer get their choice of last meals, a change prison officials made Thursday after a prominent state senator became miffed over an expansive request from a man condemned for a notorious dragging death.

Lawrence Russell Brewer, who was executed Wednesday for the hate crime slaying of James Byrd Jr. more than a decade ago, asked for two chicken fried steaks, a triple-meat bacon cheeseburger, fried okra, a pound of barbecue, three fajitas, a meat lover’s pizza, a pint of ice cream and a slab of peanut butter fudge with crushed peanuts. Prison officials said Brewer didn’t eat any of it.

"It is extremely inappropriate to give a person sentenced to death such a privilege," Sen. John Whitmire, chairman of the Senate Criminal Justice Committee, wrote in a letter Thursday to Brad Livingston, the executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Within hours, Livingston said the senator’s concerns were valid and the practice of allowing death row offenders to choose their final meal was history.

"Effective immediately, no such accommodations will be made," Livingston said. "They will receive the same meal served to other offenders on the unit."

That had been the suggestion from Whitmire, who called the traditional request "ridiculous."

"It’s long overdue," the Houston Democrat told The Associated Press after he was informed of Livingston’s decision. "This old boy last night, enough is enough. We’re fixing to execute the guy and maybe it makes the system feel good about what they’re fixing to do. Kind of hypocritical, you reckon?

"Mr. Byrd didn’t get to choose his last meal. The whole deal is so illogical."

Brewer, a white supremacist gang member, was convicted of chaining Byrd, 49, to the back of a pickup truck and dragging him to his death along a bumpy road in a case shocked the nation for its brutality. Prison officials deliver inmates their requested last meal about two hours before their scheduled execution hour — 6 p.m.

Whitmire warned in his letter that if the "last meal of choice" practice wasn’t stopped immediately, he’d seek a state statute to end it when lawmakers convene in the next legislative session.

It was not immediately clear whether other states have made similar moves. The Death Penalty Information Center, a Washington-based anti-capital punishment organization that collects execution statistics, said it had no final meal data.

Since Texas resumed carrying out executions in 1982, the state correction agency’s practice has been to fill a condemned inmate’s request as long as the items, or food similar to what was requested, were readily available from the prison kitchen supplies.

While extensive, Brewer’s request was far from the largest or most bizarre among the 475 Texas inmates put to death.

On Tuesday, prisoner Cleve Foster’s request included two fried chickens, French fries and a five-gallon bucket of peaches. He received a reprieve from the U.S. Supreme Court but none of his requested meal. He was on his way back to death row, at a prison about 45 miles east of Huntsville, at the time when his feast would have been served.

Last week, inmate Steven Woods’ request included two pounds of bacon, a large four-meat pizza, four fried chicken breasts, two drinks each of Mountain Dew, Pepsi, root beer and sweet tea, two pints of ice cream, five chicken fried steaks, two hamburgers with bacon, fries and a dozen garlic bread sticks with marinara on the side. Two hours later, he was executed.

[Lady Cop]

moving on...goodbye you filthy cop-killer. i spit on you as you exit.

RAIFORD, Fla. --
A Florida man convicted of shooting a police officer to death during a traffic stop in 1978 is scheduled to be executed Wednesday.

Barring an 11^th-hour stay, Manuel Valle, 61, is set to become the first prisoner to die from the state's newly revised mix of lethal drugs. The concoction has been challenged, twice delaying the death sentence.

The execution is set for 4 p.m. at Florida State Prison. Members of officer Louis Pena's family are expected to be witnesses.

[Lady Cop]

He stood just 5ft 1in, weighing only 95 pounds and when police led George Junius Stinney to the death chamber in 1944 he was, at the age of 14, the youngest person to be executed in the U.S.

He was so small that large books had to be placed on the seat so his head could reach the electrodes.

Stinney, of Alcolu, South Carolina, was convicted of murdering two white girls after police said he confessed to the murders.

'Easy target': George Junius Stinney died in the electric chair in South Carolina at the age of 14

But now a lawyer is determined to prove Stinney was innocent and is calling Claredon County district attorney in South Carolina to reopen the case.

The two girls who died were eleven year-old Betty June Binnicker and 8-year-old Mary Emma Thames.

THE CASE FOR STINNEY

South Carolina attorney Steve McKenzie believes George Junius Stinney was innocent because there was no physical evidence tying him to the murders.

The 14-year-old's confession was coerced, Mr McKenzie adds. There has even been a suggestion that he was told he could have ice cream if he confessed.

Mr McKenzie points out that there were no witnesses to his confession, only police officers were present.

He added that there is nothing to indicate guilt and that, in a town where whites and blacks were separated by the railroad tracks, Stinney did not stand a chance in a case involving two white girls with an all-white jury.

They went missing one day after they were riding their bikes while looking for flowers on the wrong side of the tracks in a small working class town of Alcolu.

At that time whites and blacks were separated by railroad tracks.

The girls were later found dead in a ditch, murdered with a railroad spike, thegrio.com reports.

Stinney joined the search crew and happened to tell a bystander that he had seen the girls earlier that day.

The police were informed of that and Stinney was arrested for the double murder.

He brought into the station for hours of tough interrogation, without either of his parents being there.

Reports claim the police offered Stinney ice cream if he confessed to them that he committed the double murder.

Stinney verbally confessed and to this day there is no written record of his confession in the archives.

There is no physical evidence linking Stinney to the murder and no record on paper of Stinney's conviction.

'There was only a coerced confession. An oral confession testified to two white officers and told to an all white male jury.'
South Carolina attorney Steve McKenzie says he believes the case should be reopened because of the lack of evidence or archived material.

Mr McKenzie hopes attorney general Ernest 'Chip' Finney, will agree to file a motion to re-open the case by the end of this year.

He argues that Stinney was an 'easy target' and was used as a 'scapegoat' by police who wanted to quickly find and punish anyone they could tie to the murders.

'There was only a coerced confession. The confession was never written. It was an oral confession testified to two white officers and told to an all white male jury.'

He believes, however, the complete lack of evidence will exonerate Stinney of the murders once and for all.

[SIXFOOTERsez]

This one took a while, but at least this POS is gonna die


Gov. Rick Scott signs death warrant for Oba Chandler, killer of Ohio mom, kids
By Jamal Thalji, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Tuesday, October 11, 2011


[Florida Department of Corrections]
Oba Chandler is now 65.

He lured the Ohio mother and her two daughters onto his boat. Then he bound and gagged them. Stripped them below the waist. Sexually assaulted them. Tied concrete blocks to their necks.

Then, one by one, Oba Chandler threw Joan Rogers and her teen daughters Michelle and Christe into Tampa Bay.

It was June 1, 1989, the first chapter in one of the bay area's most horrific crimes. Finally, 22 years later, the last chapter is about to be written: Chandler is to be executed Nov. 15 at 4 p.m. under the death warrant signed by Gov. Rick Scott on Monday. Chandler turned 65 on death row today.

"I'm sorry that it's taken so long," said one of his pursuers, retired St. Petersburg Detective Cindra Leedy, 58, "and I'm sorry he's not going to suffer the way they did."

The Rogers family declined to comment Monday night. But in 1997, Hal Rogers, Joan's husband and Michelle and Christe's father, told a St. Petersburg Times reporter and photographer that he wanted to be there to watch as Chandler was put to death — and, if the state let him, he would flip the switch himself.

Hal Rogers had no idea that he was saying goodbye to his wife and daughters for the last time on May 29, 1989, as they headed to Florida.

Joan "Jo" Rogers, 36, and daughters Michelle, 17, and Christe, 14, were all found on June 4, 1989, floating in different locations two miles from the Pier. Water was found in their lungs, and Michelle managed to free her left hand before dying. Authorities believe they were strangled or drowned.

Evidence of sexual assault could not be gleaned from the condition of the bodies. But their state of undress suggested the crime was sexual in nature.

It took St. Petersburg police three grueling years to track down a suspect, then another two for prosecutors to see him convicted and sentenced to death.

Their only regret is that death by lethal injection may not hold the same terror for Chandler that he inflicted upon the Rogers family.

"What was so atrocious in this is that, in all likelihood two of the three watched the first one die," said Chief Assistant State Attorney Bruce Bartlett, who prosecuted Chandler. "And one of the three watched the other two die.

"The guy is an animal. If anybody has forfeited his right to live, it's certainly this guy."

Said Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney Bernie McCabe: "All homicides are serious, and there have been other serious ones. But the terror that had to be involved in this one is extraordinary."

Investigators believe the victims died on June 1, 1989, the day Joan Rogers pulled into Tampa. She was a farmer's wife from Willshire, Ohio. They stopped for directions to the Days Inn on the Courtney Campbell Parkway.

That's when they first met Chandler, then 42. He was already a grandfather, an aluminum contractor, a drug dealer and a felon. He wrote down the directions on a brochure. It would be his undoing.

Investigators doggedly worked the Rogers case. For three years the case went cold. The handwritten directions found in the family car had been plastered on billboards. The sketch of a suspect in an unsolved rape that police believed could be linked to the murder was also publicized.

"It took about three years and we were fortunate to be able to work it that long," said retired St. Petersburg Sgt. Glen Moore, 62. "The Police Department dedicated a lot of time and effort to finding the killer of the Rogers family."

It paid off in 1992: Police followed up a tip from Tampa resident Jo Ann Steffey. She recognized an old neighbor from the rape suspect sketch. His handwriting also matched what was on the billboards. So began a meticulous effort to find that neighbor, then arrest and convict Chandler. The case had become so high-profile by then that jurors had to be brought in from Orlando.

The Rogers family hated the water. So how did Chandler coax them onto his boat? He was "a chameleon-like creature" with women, prosecutor Doug Crow told the jury during the September 1994 trial, "who one minute can portray himself as an ingratiating stranger and then, when he has them under his control, becomes a brutal rapist or a conscienceless murderer."

Indeed, authorities said Chandler lured another woman, a 25-year-old Canadian tourist, onto his boat and raped her just 18 days before the Rogers murders. She testified at his murder trial, as did Chandler. "I never killed no one in my whole life," he said. "It's ludicrous. It's ridiculous."

A year later, still defiant, Chandler spoke to a Times reporter from prison. He said his last words would be: "Kiss my rosy red ass!"

Chandler is expected to be the 71^st convict executed by Florida since the death penalty was brought back in 1979. South Florida cop killer Manuel Valle, 61, was the last to be executed on Sept. 28.

Bartlett thinks of all that Hal Rogers has suffered since then — and will continue to suffer.

"Hopefully it will create some closure for the father," the prosecutor said. "He suffered a terrible loss. He lost two daughters and a wife.

"He'll never be right again. Nothing will ever, ever change that."

Times staff photographer Cherie Diez and researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report.


[Last modified: Oct 11, 2011 08:00 AM]

[Lady Cop]

oh God that was a horrible case!! i'll post some pics etc. here when i get time.
is there a date certain?

i checked. Nov. 15.

nightmare case. he tied all of them to anchor and let them drown that way.

[Lady Cop]

i wouldn't be shocked if this passed.


TALLAHASSEE --

The classic image of a blindfolded convict being put up against a wall and executed by a firing squad may become common in Florida, if one state representative gets his way.

State Rep. Brad Drake, R-DeFuniak Springs, filed a bill this week that would eliminate lethal injection as Florida's choice method of execution, and allow only firing squad or electrocution. The bill was filed Tuesday.

Currently, death row inmates in Florida are only executed by lethal injection.

Florida used to use the electric chair, nicknamed "Old Sparky." The chair was last used in 1999, after several gruesome malfunctions that sparked an international debate on the death penalty. Lawmakers ended the practice in 2000.

Oklahoma is the only state that currently has firing squads on the books as a method of execution.

[Lady Cop]

see post 156 above.





Florida state Rep. Brad Drake ® has introduced legislation to bring back the firing squad for executions, an idea he came up with sitting at a Waffle House last month.




Rep. Brad Drake, 36, filed a bill this week that would end the use of lethal injection in Florida executions. Instead, those with a death sentence would choose between electrocution or a firing squad.

'I say let's end the debate. We still have Old Sparky. And if that doesn't suit the criminal, then we will provide them a .45-caliber lead cocktail instead,' Drake said.

'There shouldn't be anything controversial about a .45-caliber bullet,' he told the Florida Current.

'If it were up to me, we would just throw them off the Sunshine Skyway bridge and be done with it.'


HAHAHAHA I AM SKEERED OF THAT BRIDGE!

[Lady Cop]

re: post #155

For Joan Rogers and her two teenage daughters, it was the picture-perfect Florida getaway: sunshine, beaches, Epcot, Sea World, glass-bottom boats.

But when the trio made it to Tampa on the first day of June in 1989, they had trouble finding their hotel on the Courtney Campbell Causeway. A smooth-talking con man named Oba Chandler – who also had Ohio ties – helped by giving them directions.

He also invited them out on a boat ride. So the three met Chandler later that day at the boat ramp on the causeway, just 2.6 miles west of the hotel where they were staying.

Joan, Michelle and Christe Rogers had no clue Chandler was a former convict who had been arrested on a laundry list of charges before.

Chandler forced the three to strip from the waist down. He covered their mouths with duct tape to silence their screams, then tied their ankles together and secured their hands behind their backs with rope. Then he tied rope around each of their necks, attaching the other end to a concrete block.

Then, one by one, he threw them – all three were deathly afraid of the water – overboard.

Alive.

On Tuesday, Chandler is scheduled to die by lethal injection for his crimes.

[Duchess]

Oh my God

He's getting off easy. I'd like to have him suffer.

[Lady Cop]

Oh my God

He's getting off easy. I'd like to have him suffer.

he makes me miss the old days in florida when old sparky was the only option and didn't always work properly. i can only hope he's suffered on death row these years. can you imagine the horror those ladies/girls suffered as they were thrown overboard? how cruel.

All three were discovered floating with their hands and feet bound, concrete blocks tied to their necks and duct tape over their mouths. Autopsies indicated the women had been thrown into the water one by one while still alive.