DEATH ROW--death penalty in America

[HairOfTheDog]

ARIZONA UNDER FIRE -- EXECUTED INMATE LINGERS FOR 2 HOURS



Joseph Wood ^ killed his ex-girlfriend and her father back in 1989.

Yesterday he was put to death in Arizona after unsuccessfully appealing his death sentence based on the fact that the state wouldn't disclose the details of its injection drugs and it could cause pain and suffering ("cruel and unusual").

To the joy of death penalty opponents, Wood lingered on and on and on -- taking almost two hours to die.

To paraphrase who's saying what about it:
-Wood's lawyer says that Wood was in pain and grunting; terrible to watch his agony. The American Civil Liberties Union joined in his outrage.

-His victims' family says, "meh, he was snoring and that's easy punishment for what he did".

-Governor Jan Brewer says, "it shouldn't have taken so long and we'll look into it, but there was nothing cruel or unusual about it".

-A federal judge ordered local officials to preserve all physical evidence in Wood's execution (Wood's lawyer is demanding an independent investigation).

Ref: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/24/justic...?hpt=hp_t4

[Maggot]

I like that these perps are sweating it out thinking of how painful their injections might be.

[Blindgreed1]

ARIZONA UNDER FIRE -- EXECUTED INMATE LINGERS FOR 2 HOURS



Joseph Wood ^ killed his ex-girlfriend and her father back in 1989.

Yesterday he was put to death in Arizona after unsuccessfully appealing his death sentence based on the fact that the state wouldn't disclose the details of its injection drugs and it could cause pain and suffering ("cruel and unusual").

To the joy of death penalty opponents, Wood lingered on and on and on -- taking almost two hours to die.

To paraphrase who's saying what about it:
-Wood's lawyer says that Wood was in pain and grunting; terrible to watch his agony. The American Civil Liberties Union joined in his outrage.

-His victims' family says, "meh, he was snoring and that's easy punishment for what he did".

-Governor Jan Brewer says, "it shouldn't have taken so long and we'll look into it, but there was nothing cruel or unusual about it".

-A federal judge ordered local officials to preserve all physical evidence in Wood's execution (Wood's lawyer is demanding an independent investigation).

Ref: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/24/justic...?hpt=hp_t4

The Dietz executions. Fucker deserved whatever pain and suffering he got.

[ramseycat]

I like that these perps are sweating it out thinking of how painful their injections might be.

Agreed.

[Midwest Spy]

I like that these perps are sweating it out thinking of how painful their injections might be.

Agreed.

So this guy lived nearly 25 years after executing his girlfriend and her father and bleeding hearts want us to feel sorry that his death wasn't completely comfortable?

Somehow, though, a death sentence needs to be administered in a timely manner.

If there's a Capital murder conviction, you should get one automatic appeal to your states Supreme Court. If its upheld, the sentence is carried out within 2 years of the conviction.

Why should that be so difficult to do?

[Duchess]

I like that these perps are sweating it out thinking of how painful their injections might be.

Fucker deserved whatever pain and suffering he got.

If there's a Capital murder conviction, you should get one automatic appeal to your states Supreme Court. If its upheld, the sentence is carried out within 2 years of the conviction.

What they said! I like all of it.

[Maggot]

That's why no one wants to be convicted in Texas.

[Duchess]

If that's the case then other states should adopt their policies.

[Duchess]

What kind of person would lobby for considerations for those monsters. Fuck 'em.

[Blindgreed1]

What kind of person would lobby for considerations for those monsters. Fuck 'em.

There was actually a bill on our state's last election ballot that took away the criminals right to sue a homeowner if he/she was injured while robbing a residence. Seems like that should just be common sense. If you ripped your balls off hopping my fence with my TV under your arm you got what you deserved, but I was enlightened by a friend of mine as to just how many suits there were in the courts for this sort of thing. Sad that this even had to go to vote. Good news is, it passed, but it's hung up right now in civil rights courts. We want to make sure those criminals rights aren't being violated by such a law.

[HairOfTheDog]

Tonight the state of Texas is scheduled to execute Lisa Ann Coleman, Convicted Child Murderer

Sometimes I disagree with the death penalty -- it's case by case for me even for similar crimes. In this one, I have no qualms about this woman being killed by the state.

She will be the second woman executed this year in Texas and the 15^th woman to be executed in the country since 1976.



In 2004, Lisa Ann Coleman ^ and her girlfriend Marcella Williams, were arrested for the death Marcella's 9 year old son, Davontae. When paramedics arrived at their apartment, Davontae was covered in bandages and dead on the bathroom floor. Paramedics noted that he appeared to be 3 - 5 years old. He was actually 9, he weighed 35 pounds.

The couple had starved him to death, along with beating him, burning him with cigarettes, and keeping him locked in a closet. Davontae had 250 wounds all over his body. CPS had investigated Marcella Williams multiple times, but they couldn't keep track of her because the couple kept moving in order to avoid having her two younger daughters removed from the home.

Lisa Coleman went to trial and was found guilty. It was a capital case because she was charged with both kidnapping and murder (due to the confinement in the closet). Marcella Williams took a plea deal instead of going to trial -- she was sentenced to life in prison. I believe Marcella Williams deserves to be meeting the same fate tonight as Lisa Coleman.

Lisa's Coleman appealed on grounds that the kidnapping charge was invalid and that she had incompetent trial. Those appeals have been denied.

[Duchess]

Good! I hope she's scared out of her mind. I ALWAYS hope these people are frightened, I want them to feel the fear their victims must have felt. Damn shame it's going to be so painless.

[Duchess]

She's gone, hopefully burning in hell even as I type this -

A Texas woman was executed this evening, after spending the last eight years on death row for the murder of her girlfriend's son a decade ago.

Coleman was given a lethal injection sometime after 6pm and was pronounced dead at 6:23pm, according to KDFW reporter Richard Ray who acted as a media witness to the execution.

Ray said the execution was 'very peaceful' and that he only heard a 'short gasp' before Coleman passed.

Her last words were directed at her fellow inmate, Darlie Routier.

'Tell them I finished strong,' she said.

She then smiled and blew kisses at the supporters gathered and added: 'God bless you all.'

Story

[HairOfTheDog]

Samuel L. Jackson was NOT just executed in Missouri (but sure does look like him)



Leon Taylor, 56, ^ was pronounced dead at 12:22 a.m. at the state prison in Bonne Terre, minutes after receiving a lethal injection. With Taylor's death, 2014 ties 1999 for having the most executions in a year in Missouri.

The Crime:
Taylor shot worker Robert Newton to death in front of Newton's 8-year-old stepdaughter during a gas station robbery in Independence, Missouri. Taylor tried to kill the girl, too, but the gun jammed.

According to court records, Taylor, his half-brother and half-sister decided to rob a gas station on April 14, 1994. Newton was at the station with his stepdaughter.

Taylor entered the store, drew a gun and told Newton, 53, to put $400 in a money bag. Newton complied and the half-brother, Willie Owens, took the money to the car.

Taylor then ordered Newton and the child to a back room. Newton pleaded for Taylor not to shoot him in front of the little girl, but Taylor shot him in the head. He tried to kill the girl but the gun jammed, so he locked her in the room and the trio drove away.

The child's testimony at trial was pivotal in the death sentence.

Adios, asshole...

[Maggot]

1994...........I bet some bleeding hearts are against DNA being used to put the noose around the necks of these killers sooner. But DNA will also free the ones that are innocent. Sometimes people do get bad raps, but I think the latter is less common.

[HairOfTheDog]

MISSOURI



Paul Goodwin ^, 48, was put to death for fatally beating a 63-year-old woman with a hammer in 1998, the state's record 10^th lethal injection of 2014, matching Texas for the most executions in the country this year.

Goodwin who sexually assaulted Joan Crotts in St. Louis County, pushed her down a flight of stairs and beat her in the head with a hammer. Goodwin was a former neighbor who felt Crotts played a role in getting him kicked out of a boarding house. Goodwin admitted committing the crime after his arrest.

Efforts to spare Goodwin's life centered on his low IQ and claims that executing him would violate a U.S. Supreme Court ruling prohibiting the death penalty for the mentally disabled. Attorney Jennifer Herndon said Goodwin had an IQ of 73, and some tests suggested it was even lower.

An IQ of 70 is the bar set by the Supreme Court, IIRC.

Goodwin's daughter fought to have her father's life spared, claiming that it was unfair to kill a man with the emotional and intellectual capacity of a child for a crime of passion.

His victim's daughter, however, said she's been waiting years to see her mother's killer executed.

Goodwin was executed at 1:17 a.m. this morning.

[HairOfTheDog]

GEORGIA

And, also this morning, Robert Wayne Hosley 49, was executed by the state of Georgia.



Holsey ^ was sentenced to die for the Dec. 17, 1995, killing of Baldwin County sheriff's deputy Will Robinson. A jury convicted Holsey in February 1997.

Holsey robbed a convenience store in the town of Milledgeville early on Dec. 17, and the store clerk immediately called police, describing the suspect and his car, prosecutors said.

According to court documents, Robinson stopped a car at a nearby hotel minutes later and radioed in the license plate number. As Robinson approached the vehicle, Holsey fired at him, prosecutors said. The deputy suffered a fatal head wound.

Holsey fled but was arrested a short time later at his sister's house.

Holsey's lawyers filed a number of last-minute appeals to stop the execution but they were all rejected.

Moments before he was put to death, Holsey addressed the victim's father.

"Mr. Robinson, I'm sorry for taking your son's life that night," he said. "He didn't deserve to die like that." Holsey added, "I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me and my family."

[HairOfTheDog]

VIETNAM COMBAT VET EXECUTED FOR MURDER OF SHERIFF'S DEPUTY -- GEORGIA



^ 66-year-old Andrew Brannan was executed by the state of Georgia yesterday.

Brannan was a decorated Vietnam War veteran who'd been treated for PTSD when he was convicted for murdering 22-year-old sheriff's deputy Kyle Dinkheller in 1998.

Brannan's attorneys, to no avail, tried to stop the lethal injection with motions and appeals claiming that it was unconstitutional to kill someone with a combat-related mental illness and that the death penalty was intended to be reserved for the worst of the worst killers.

Before his execution, Brannan apologized to Dinkheller's family. Officer Dinkheller left behind a wife and two small children; his father saw nothing less than the death penalty as justice for his son and was pleased to see Brannan executed yesterday.

The shootout between Brannan, who was pulled over for doing over 100 mph, and Dinkheller was captured by dash cam. It's difficult to watch, and it's difficult to hear the officer screaming and gasping for air after he was already down and Brannan continued to shoot him. This video/audio likely helped prosecutors secure a death penalty sentence.

Disturbing


We see a lot of cases these days of officers firing on unarmed citizens. Shame that 15 years ago Officer Dinkheller waited too long to shoot (in my opinion) after having a gun pulled and pointed at him.

[HairOfTheDog]

BABY RAPIST/KILLER EXECUTED IN OKLAHOMA

Follow-up to post #342



Charles "Pippi" Warner was executed on Thursday. He was convicted of raping and killing the 11-month-old daughter of his girlfriend back in 1997.

Warner was scheduled to be executed in April 2014. But, after the "botched" execution of Clayton Lockett, Oklahoma put things on hold.

The same three-drug death cocktail that was used to kill Lockett was used to kill Warner. Warner's last words were, "my body's on fire" (he was closely associated with death penalty opponents). Warner died 18 minutes after being injected, without complications.

[HairOfTheDog]

LAST WEEK -- THE LOW IQ EXECUTIONS



Robert Ladd was executed in Texas last Thursday.

He measured a 67 IQ when he was 13. The typical bar for executions is 70, but adult evaluations showed that he was mentally competent.

Ladd was executed for the 1996 slaying of 38-year-old Vicki Ann Garner, of Tyler, who was strangled and beaten with a hammer. Her arms and legs were bound, bedding was placed between her legs, and she was set on fire in her apartment.

The really retarded part of the story is that Ladd had previously been convicted of killing a woman and her two children. He served ¹⁄₃ of a 40 year sentence as was out on parole when he killed Garner.



Warren Lee Hill was executed in Georgia last Tuesday.

He was a former petty officer in the Navy, was sentenced to life in prison in 1986 after shooting and killing his 18-year-old girlfriend, Myra Wright. Four years later, he used a nail-studded board to batter to death a fellow inmate. A jury sentenced him to death.

During his 1991 trial, Hill did not claim to be intellectually disabled. Yet throughout his last two decades on death row, attorneys have sparred over the issue of his mental impairment, and the extent to which he is morally culpable for his crimes. He had a reported IQ 70 and his execution had been postponed at the last minute four times. Last week, he'd run out of legal options.