DEATH ROW--death penalty in America

[Maggot]

That cat spent his entire life in jail. I wonder if he ever looked into the results of his killing the manager and the fallout from it over the years. I almost feel for the guy. Almost.

[Duchess]

It sorta burns my ass a little whenever I read "cruel & unusual punishment" bought into the equation. They are being put to death for a despicable crime, usually murder, FFS.

[Maggot]

I would rather have a firing squad. Hanging and electrocution is ugly.

[Midwest Spy]

I know I've said this before, but a sentence should be carried out in a timely manner.

Somehow the appeals process needs to be whittled down, and if the execution can't be carried out in say, less than five years, then that person receives LWOP.

As Maggot said, I kind of feel weird about executing this guy after nearly 37 years.

On a side note, there's a pig rotting away in a North Dakota federal penitentiary named Alfonso Rodriguez.

The guys rap sheet is longer than my Johnson and he's spent nearly his entire adult life in prison for various sexual assault crimes.

In 2003 he raped and murdered Dru Sjodin and was convicted and sentenced to death not long after.

How does a pig with that kind of history not get executed AT ONCE?

It's truly baffling.

[ramseycat]

I know I've said this before, but a sentence should be carried out in a timely manner.

Somehow the appeals process needs to be whittled down, and if the execution can't be carried out in say, less than five years, then that person receives LWOP.

As Maggot said, I kind of feel weird about executing this guy after nearly 37 years.

On a side note, there's a pig rotting away in a North Dakota federal penitentiary named Alfonso Rodriguez.

The guys rap sheet is longer than my Johnson and he's spent nearly his entire adult life in prison for various sexual assault crimes.

In 2003 he raped and murdered Dru Sjodin and was convicted and sentenced to death not long after.

How does a pig with that kind of history not get executed AT ONCE?

It's truly baffling.

So his rap sheet is 3 inches?

[Midwest Spy]

The guys rap sheet is longer than my Johnson

So his rap sheet is 3 inches?

First of all, referencing your Johnson is something most every guy wants to do occasionally.

Secondly, is 3 inches good or bad?

[ramseycat]

The guys rap sheet is longer than my Johnson

So his rap sheet is 3 inches?

First of all, referencing your Johnson is something most every guy wants to do occasionally.

Secondly, is 3 inches good or bad?

All I have to say is size does matter.

[HairOfTheDog]

TEXAS


^Coy Wayne Wesbrook shot to death his wife and four others almost 20 years ago. He was executed by the state yesterday, three days after his interview with 60 Minutes.

“Who do you blame for being here on death row?” (interviewer) Whitaker asked in an episode that aired Sunday.

“My wife,” Wesbrook said.

Wesbrook had believed he might reconcile with his ex-wife, 32-year-old Gloria Jean Coons, when he went to her house in November 1997. But when he arrived to her apartment in Channelview, he realized she was hosting a party.

He testified at his 1998 capital murder trial that Coons humiliated him by having sex with two men while he was there.

“You hear all your life if you catch your old lady in bed with somebody, don’t just shoot her but shoot her lover too,” Wesbrook said from prison. “In her case, there was a bunch of lovers. I just took care of my business.

Wesbrook got his .36-caliber hunting rifle from his truck. He shot his wife, her roommate, Diana Ruth Money, 43, and three men: Antonio Cruz, 35; Anthony Ray Rogers, 41; and Kelly Hazlip, 28.

“I’m sorry it happened … But I’m not going to sit here and boo-hoo about it,” said Wesbrook, who also called himself “a victim in this as well as everybody else.”

Story: http://www.khou.com/story/news/crime/201.../81548850/
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Talk about remorseless. I imagine him singing,"Ding Dong The Bitch is Dead" as he was escorted to the death chamber.

[Maggot]

Well they died happy.

[HairOfTheDog]

Missouri



A man who killed three people, including a sheriff’s deputy, in a dispute over drugs was executed by lethal injection in Missouri on Wednesday night.

Earl Forrest, 66, was pronounced dead at 7:18 p.m. at the state prison in Bonne Terre, Missouri Department of Corrections spokesman Mike O’Connell said.

Forrest killed an acquaintance, Harriet Smith, and a visitor at her house, Michael Wells, in a dispute over methamphetamine, on Dec. 9, 2002. He shot both of them in the face, within a range of a few inches, according to court records.

Forrest and his girlfriend then fled Smith’s house in the southern Missouri town of Salem, taking with them a lockbox containing an estimated $25,000 of methamphetamine. Later, he got into a shootout with law enforcement and shot and killed sheriff’s deputy Sharon Joann Barnes, according to the records.

Good riddance.

Story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/miss..._ref=crime

[HairOfTheDog]

Texas -- First Execution of 2017



Christopher Wilkins, 48, was convicted of fatally shooting Willie Freeman, 40, and Mike Silva, 33, because he was angry that he was tricked into paying $20 for a rock disguised as a chuck of crack cocaine.

The Supreme Court earlier Wednesday refused to block his execution. Wilkins argued via appeals that his lawyers did a bad job of defending him against charges. He was executed and pronounced death at 6:29pm on January 11, 2017.

Wilkins admitted to the 2005 double slaying — and claimed he had committed another murder and other crimes — during the sentencing phase of his trial.

"I tend to want to take the easy way out," the ex-con truck driver told the court. "I make bad decisions. I know they're bad decisions when I'm making them. I make them anyway."

Before the lethal injection was administered, Christopher Wilkins twice mouthed "I'm sorry," to two relatives of one of the murder victims as they watched through a window Wednesday night.

Refs:
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/lethal-...17-n705916
http://www.krmg.com/news/news/local/inma...017/ntXtR/

[Maggot]

All capitol murder trials should be held in Texas. They don't mess around.

[HairOfTheDog]

TEXAS


Terry Edwards, 43, received a lethal injection for the $3,000 holdup at a Subway restaurant where two employees were shot to death in 2002.

Asked by a warden if he had a final statement, Edwards replied: “I’m at peace with God. I hope y’all find peace in this.” As the lethal dose of pentobarbital was administered, he began snoring quickly. Within about 30 seconds, all movement stopped.

He was pronounced dead at 10:17 p.m. CST Thursday, Jan. 26^th, 23 minutes after the sedative began flowing into his arms. Edwards never looked at five relatives of the two murder victims who stood a few feet from him, looking through a window.

Evidence showed Edwards worked at the restaurant in Balch Springs, about 15 miles southeast of Dallas, but had been fired few weeks before the robbery and shootings for stealing from the cash register.

Mickell Goodwin, 26, and Tommy Walker, 34, were each shot in the head in the holdup. RIP. Walker, the store manager, had seven children and stepchildren. Goodwin was mother of two daughters. No one else was inside the store.

“Tonight is a time for us to remember Mickey and Tommy,” their families said in a statement following the execution. “Though this chapter of our journey is now over, we will always feel the loss of them in our lives.”

Full Story: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-man-te...fired-him/

[Duchess]

Goes peacefully to sleep. Ain't that a fuckin' thing.

[HairOfTheDog]

The man behind the barbaric murders of a whole family 19 years ago in Missouri was put peacefully to sleep last night too and is now taking a dirt nap (stole that phrase from Six, I like it).

MISSOURI



Mark Christeson, 37 (pictured right), was given Missouri's first lethal injection since May.

On Feb. 1, 1998, Christeson, then 18, and his 17-year-old cousin, Jesse Carter, decided to run away from a home outside Vichy where they lived with a relative.

They took shotguns and went to a rural home about half a mile away where Susan Brouk lived. The cousins planned to steal Brouk’s Ford Bronco, said Terry Daley Schwartze, who was Maries County’s prosecutor at the time of the killing and now.

When they arrived at the home, Brouk was there with her 12-year-old daughter, Adrian, and 9-year-old son, Kyle.

Christeson and Carter tied the children’s hands with shoelaces. Investigators said Christeson forced Brouk into a bedroom and raped her. When they went back into the living room, Adrian recognized Carter and said his name. “We’ve got to get rid of ‘em,” Christeson told Carter, according to court records.

The family was forced into the Bronco. Christeson and Carter loaded the SUV with electronics and other items and drove to a pond.

Christeson kicked the 36-year-old mother in the ribs and cut her throat. She told her children she loved them as she lay bleeding.

Christeson then cut Kyle’s throat and held the boy under water until he drowned. Carter held Adrian while Christeson pressed on her throat until she suffocated, and then Carter pushed the girl’s body into the pond.

Brouk’s sister alerted authorities a few days later that the family was missing. A Missouri State Highway Patrol helicopter spotted one of the bodies in the pond, leading to a search that found the bodies of all three victims.

Meanwhile, Christeson and Carter drove to California, selling Brouk’s household items along the way. A detective in California’s Riverside County recognized the cousins from photos police had circulated. They were arrested eight days after the killings.

Carter agreed to testify against his cousin. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Full story: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mark-christe...ian-brouk/

[Midwest Spy]

So brutal at such a young age.

I just don't understand how you could do that to children (especially ones you know).

SMH

[HairOfTheDog]

TEXAS


--James Bigby, 61, was put to death by lethal injection on Tuesday evening
--He murdered three men and a baby in 1987 in a Christmas Eve killing spree
--Bigby believed the men were conspiring against him on behalf of his former boss
--He shot Michael Trekell at his Arlington home and drowned his baby son Jason
--He then shot Calvin Crane and Frank Johnson but was never tried for their deaths
--Bigby had received shock treatment for mental illness 10 days before killings
--He was the fourth death row inmate to be executed in Texas this year

Bigby, a paranoid schizophrenic, sang 'Jesus Loves Me' as he was executed. He was pronounced dead just after 6pm in Huntsville in Texas on Tuesday.

Texas Department of Corrections officials said he struggled to stop sobbing before he was taken into the death chamber, as he expressed sorrow for his crimes. As the lethal injection set in, he prayed, sang 'Jesus Loves Me', and said 'I promise, I'm sorry' several times.

Bigby made sure there were no last-minute appeals delaying his punishment. In his last statement, he offered apologies to the families. 'I´m sorry. I´m sorry. I hope that my death will bring you peace and closure,' he was quoted as saying by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

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

[Maggot]

Some people are better off dead.

[BigMark]

With a 10 cent bullet.

[HairOfTheDog]

ARKANSAS

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- After nearly a dozen years without an execution, Arkansas is racing to put eight men to death next month over a 10-day period.

The unprecedented timetable is made necessary because the state’s supply of potassium chloride, one of the three ingredients in the lethal injection, will soon expire, state officials say.

If carried out, the executions beginning April 17 would make Arkansas the first state to execute this many inmates in such a short time since the death penalty was reinstated by the Supreme Court in 1976.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/arkansas-wil...-in-april/