[Mr Poo]

They all pretty much deserved to die..

After reading each of their crimes, 0 fucks are given..

[JONESJIM]

i agree 100%..

[Lion-hearted Girl]

I'm on the fence....I'm really not sure. I see pros and cons for both sides. I am truly fascinated by the process and the whole debate, that's for sure!

[Lion-hearted Girl]

Death row inmate Kelly Gissendaner’s last meal could be huge

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THE only woman on death row in the US state of Georgia has revealed her last meal request ahead of her impending execution.

Kelly Renee Gissendaner, who was sentenced to death in 1998 for orchestrating the murder of her husband Doug, has asked for a long list of food including corn bread with a side of buttermilk.



She has also requested two Burger King Whoppers with cheese; two large orders of fries; cherry vanilla ice cream; popcorn; a salad with boiled eggs, tomatoes, bell peppers, onions, carrots, cheese and Newman’s Own buttermilk dressing; and lemonade, according to abc News 10.

Final meal requests are not uncommon for death row inmates.

American terrorist, Timothy McVeigh, who detonated a truck-full of explosives in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people in 1995, ordered 2 pints of mint chip ice cream.
He was executed by lethal injection in 2001.

Convicted murderer Victor Feguer, who was the last man to be executed in Iowa, requested a single olive with the pip still in it before he was executed in 1963.
However, elaborate last meals have come under the spotlight in the past.

Texas officials banned last meals in 2013 after convicted murderer Lawrence Russell Brewer requested 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.
Brewer reportedly refused to eat any of the food he had requested, leading to the ban.

Texas officials said at the time that death row inmates would get the same food as other inmates.

Gissendaner is scheduled to die by lethal injection Wednesday week, in what will be the state’s first execution of a woman in 70 years.

If the execution goes ahead as planned she will become the 35th Georgia inmate put to death by lethal injection.
While her execution date has been set for February 25 at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, a last bid clemency hearing has been scheduled for February 24.

According to court documents, Gissendaner persuaded her then boyfriend Gregory Bruce Owen to kidnap her husband Douglas and kill him.

Gissendaner created the plot to collect on the couple’s life insurance policies, Associated Press reported and Owen testified against her in exchange for a life sentence.

It is not yet known whether her last meal request will be granted.

The last woman executed in Georgia was African American woman Lena Baker, who killed a white man who enslaved her.

The maid, who died in the electric chair in March 1945, was pardoned in 2005 after a jury found she acted in self-defence, broadcaster NPR reported.

[Lion-hearted Girl]

Name: Walter STOREY



Date of Execution: February 11, 2015 - 12:10am

State: Missouri

Method of Execution: Lethal Injection - 1-drug (pentobarbital)

Age: 47

Date of Birth: February 20, 1967

Race: White

Conviction: Murder

Method of Murder: Beating, Stabbing with knife, Cut throat to the spine

Date of Offence: February 2, 1990

Characteristics: Home Invasion; Robbery

Victim/s: (1) His across-the-hall neighbour, Jill Frey, a 36 year old special education teacher.



Victim's Race: White

Years from Sentence to Execution: 24

Final Statement: Storey released this final statement: “For this world full of anger, hate and revenge, I would like to pray for peace, forgiveness and love! I love everyone, even those who are doing this deed.” While strapped to the gurney, he mouthed what appeared to be "I love you" to the witnesses, then began chanting or singing as the drugs were administered.

Last Meal: Cheese burger and french fries.

Circumstances of Offense:

On February 2, 1990, Storey received a divorce petition from his wife. Later that night, by his own admission, Storey got a knife from his kitchen, climbed up the balcony of his across-the-hall neighbor Jill Frey, entered her apartment, took her pocketbook and car keys, "struggled" with her, and stole her car.

The next day, again by his own admission, Storey reentered Frey’s apartment using the stolen keys, tried to wipe his fingerprints from anything he had touched, cleaned under Frey’s fingernails with her own toothbrush, put evidence in a dumpster, and threw Frey’s keys in the lake behind her apartment.

The day after that, Frey failed to appear for work, so her co-workers came to check on her. They found Frey’s body in the bedroom.

She had six broken ribs; she had been hit in the face and head 12 times; she had a non-fatal stab wound in her side. Most or all of these injuries were inflicted before she was killed by two six inch cuts across her throat.

*****

Missouri executes Walter Story for 1990 break in and murder

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Missouri executed a man early Wednesday who was convicted of a brutal home-invasion murder 24 years ago, after a divided U.S. Supreme Court declined to stop his lethal injection just because the state won't reveal where it got the deadly chemicals.

Walter Storey, 47, was on death row for the 1990 beating and stabbing death of a neighbor whose home he broke into so he could steal money for beer. He was pronounced dead at 12:01 a.m., officials said. His last meal was a cheeseburger and fries.

Victim Jill Frey's brother, Jeff Frey, said in a statement that it had taken too long for Storey to be punished.

"Why do we continue to allow the argument about the secretive process of obtaining and using lethal injection drugs? Is it because this process might cause a brutal murderer to suffer a painful death? What is a painful death?" he wrote.

"What is cruel and unusual punishment? Is it a twitch of a finger? Is it a squinting of an eyelid? Is it a curling of a savage killer's toes, or maybe violent tremors of the body for several minutes?

"Or is cruel and unusual punishment when a man breaks into a woman's home in the middle of the night while she is in bed, proceeds to brutally beat and assault her, break six ribs, hit her in the face and head 12 times suffering injuries to her forehead, nose, cheek, scalp, lips, tongue and even her eyelid torn off?

"She had defensive wounds to her arms and hands, abrasions to her knee, a six-inch stab wound to the abdomen, and four internal impact injuries to her head all before she lost consciousness!"

In Storey's appeal, defense lawyers argued that Missouri's refusal to disclose which compounding pharmacy supplied the killer dose of pentobarbital for his execution could lead to a death so painful it would violate his constitutional rights.

Storey's legal team also objected to Missouri's use of the drug midazolam as a sedative before the execution.

The high court voted 5-4 to let Storey's execution go ahead. Last month, the justices agreed to hear an appeal out of Oklahoma that argues midazolam is not a strong enough anesthetic to use in lethal injections. Executions are on hold in three states as a result.

Midazolam came under scrutiny in the wake of several problematic executions last year.

[rob666]

Originally Posted by Lion-hearted Girl ↗

EXECUTION STAYED

Name: Lester BOWER

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State: Texas

Update: Monday, February 9, 2015 12:24 pm EST

Texas Inmate Lester Bower Granted Stay

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Lester Leroy Bower, Jr., was scheduled to be executed at 6 pm CST, on Tuesday, February 10, 2015, at the Walls Unit of the Huntsville State Penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas. He has been granted a stay of execution.

Sixty-seven-year-old Lester is convicted of murdering 51-year-old Bob G. Tate, 39-year-old Ronald Mayes, 29-year-old Philip Good, and 52-year-old Jerry Mac Brown, on October 8, 1983, near Sherman, Texas. Lester has spent the last 30 years on Texas’ death row.

Lester received a stay of execution from the Supreme Court of the United States in order to grant the court time to consider whether they will hear his case, which includes the claim that spending the last 30 years on death row amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.

Lester was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Lester graduated from high school and college, where he played football. Lester had no previous criminal history. Prior to his arrest, he worked as a chemical salesman and enjoyed rafting, hunting, backpacking, and archery. He and his family, a wife and two daughters, moved from Colorado to Texas months before the murders.

In the fall of 1983, much to his wife’s objections, Lester Bower was contemplating purchasing and flying and ultralight aircraft. Bower, unbeknownst to his wife, called Phillip Good after seeing his ad for ultralight aircraft. Philip introduced Bower to Bob Tate, who owned an ultralight he wanted to sell.

On October 8, 1983, Bower drove out to an airport hanger to meet with Philip and Bob. According to Bower, he purchased the ultralight from them, dismantled it, and went to store it in a local gun club so his wife would not find out about his purchase. According to prosecutors, Bower “snapped” and killed Philip and Bob. He then killed Jerry Brown and Ronald Mayes when they came over to investigate.

Bower initially lied to investigators about his whereabouts on the day the four men were killed, allegedly wanted to spare his family from the attention being involved in such a case would bring.

Bower was convicted based on circumstantial evidence. Bower sold firearms on the side, had purchased prior to the murder a gun that used Julio Fiocchi .22 caliber bullets. Casings for these bullets were found on the floor of the hanger where the four men were killed. It was also believed that a silencer was used in the murders, although the murder weapon was never found.

Prosecutors said he killed the men in order to steal the plane. Parts of the plane, with the name “Tate” scratched on them was found in Bower’s garage, along with fingerprints from Jerry, decals and materials which were traditionally found on the exterior of an ultralight aircraft, receipts for Julio Fiocchi .22 caliber bullets, books and articles on weaponry and how to commit murder, instructional guides for using silencers, and manuals for construction of ultralight aircrafts. Unidentified blood stains were also found on Bower’s boots.

Five years after Bower’s conviction and death sentence, a woman came forward claiming Bower did not kill the men; her ex-boyfriend and his three friends did in a drug deal gone bad. Since then, three more witnesses have come forward confirming key pieces of the woman’s claim.

This is at least the sixth execution warrant for Lester Bower. Lester has maintained his innocence, although he is prepared to die.

A weak case........ All circumstantial.

I don't know how you could convict based on that

[Lion-hearted Girl]

Originally Posted by rob666 ↗

A weak case........ All circumstantial.

I don't know how you could convict based on that

I thought the same. Imagine what it would be like spending 30 years on death row then being executed for something you didn't do.

The guy had NO record. That's pretty rare with these death row cases. This is one of the reasons I am on the fence about the death penalty....juries make mistakes!

[apache]

I'll make a long story short since its an 53 minute video. A man in a small town in Texas named Cameron Todd Willingham was executed for setting a fire that killed his three daughters. The prosecution were presented with evidence of Arson which was found to be made with erroneous fire investigative work, him being an Devil Worshiper because he had Iron Maiden Posters, and Demonic looking fire patterns which are now know by scientific fire investigation, to be natural burn patterns resulting from house fires. This of course is compounded by hate mongering locals whom think he was guilty because of getting drunk at an local bar right after the incident. Not only is the evidence overwhelmingly pointing at an accidental fire, but there was an emergency order sent to the Texas Supreme Court right before the execution, because there was new information from top Fire Analysis that had shown he didn't do it and of course, it was thrown out. To top this when he was executed he was yelling at his ex-wife because she pushed to have the execution done and the Rick Perry, the governor of Texas, used his cursing and vulger words as a reason for him to be guilty after his execution. I found this fucked up because its like he just pissed off that hes being wrongly executed and they tried to use that a some kind of dim whited reason to execute the wrong man, which they did, they killed an innocent man whom had already lost his three daughters, pretty much because he was an metal head, had an temper at times, and didn't risk his life to save his children (Which he was ashamed of not dieing with his kids). I just think its fucked up!. Anyways my point is with all the science and resources we have to prove guilt or innocence, we should really take initiative and fight to have an more justified prison system.

[apache]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/death-by-fire/

[Lion-hearted Girl]

Yeh I just watched this a few weeks ago. I don't think he did it. My thoughts are that in that case an innocent man was executed.