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Re: 2015 Executions in the USA
Name: Charles Frederick WARNER Warner was originally scheduled to be executed in April 2014, on the same night as Clayton Lockett, who began writhing on the gurney, moaning and trying to lift his head after he'd been declared unconscious. That prompted state officials to impose a moratorium on executions in Oklahoma until an investigation was completed into what went wrong. Warner is the first person to be executed in Oklahoma since the botched execution.  Date of Execution: January 15, 2015 - 7:28pm State: Oklahoma Age: 46 Date of Birth: May 20, 1972 Race: Black Conviction: First degree murder and Rape Method of Murder: Rape and physical abuse Date of Offence: August 22, 1997 Characteristics: Sodomy and shaken baby syndrome  Victim/s: (1) Adrianna Waller (11 months) - His girlfriend's baby.  Victim's Race: Black Years from Sentence to Execution: 21 Method: Lethal Injection (3-drug: midazolam) Last Words: “Before I give my final statement, I'll tell you they poked me five times. It hurt. It feels like acid,” Warner had said before the execution began. “I’m not a monster. I didn't do everything they said I did.” After the first drug was administered, Warner said, “My body is on fire”. It is believed that Warner was attempting to assist other death row inmates by making the execution seem painful. His initial statement about the drugs "burning" were made before any drug had been injected, and he was only receiving saline through the IV. (My god....I hope it DID HURT!) Last Meal: Prior to his first scheduled execution last year, Warner asked for a KFC meal of 20 boneless hot wings, potato wedges, two fruit cups, and coleslaw. Oklahoma last meals always come from fast food restaurants, and at the time the spending limit was only $15. Warner's execution was then put on hold because of concerns over the state's execution protocol, but by then the man had already consumed his last meal. By the time Warner's second execution date rolled around, Oklahoma had increased the last meal spending limit to $25. For round two, Warner was able to repeat his first food order and also add a Big Mac and a bag of gummy worms because of the extra cash allowed. Circumstances of Offense: In August of 1997, Shonda Waller and her eleven month-old daughter, Adriana Waller, lived in Oklahoma City with Charles Frederick Warner and his three children, aged 7, 5 and 2. At about 7:30 am on August 22, Warner left the house to go pay a traffic ticket. When Shonda woke up at 8:00 am, she stayed in bed and played with Adriana for a while. Adriana was her normal, playful self and did not seem to be experiencing any type of discomfort. When Shonda changed Adriana's diaper that morning, she did not notice anything wrong with Adriana. After Shonda got up, she made sandwiches for the kids and for Warner when he came home. Shonda and Warner had planned to go grocery shopping with all of the children that morning but Warner suggested that she go by herself and leave the children with him at the house. Shonda left to go shopping around noon. She arrived back at the house with the groceries at around 2:30 pm. She looked in on Adriana and saw her laying on the bed. A short time later Shonda told Warner that she wanted to go pay to have the telephone connected. When Warner went to get Adriana, he brought her out of the bedroom and said that she wasn't breathing. Shonda grabbed Adriana and asked Warner to drive them to the hospital. On the way to the hospital Shonda performed CPR on her daughter. When Shonda carried Adriana into the emergency room of Mercy Health Center in Oklahoma City, Adriana appeared lifeless. Resuscitation efforts by medical personnel failed and she was pronounced dead approximately forty minutes later. Emergency room nurses proceeded to clean the baby. When nurse Robin Jones was changing Adriana's diaper, she noticed a "loss of integrity" in the anal region, with bright red blood around the child's anus and tears in the child's rectum. The injury appeared recent as there were no scabs or signs of healing. At this point post-mortem care stopped and the police were called. From the autopsy, the forensic pathologist opined that head and abdominal injuries had caused the child's death. She testified that the injuries were probably inflicted upon the child within an hour of her death, although they could have been inflicted up to three hours before she died. In court it was revealed that Warner had been trying to convince Shonda to engage in anal sex with him, but she had refused. In the two weeks leading up to the rape/murder, she had rejected all his attempts at intimacy besides one. The police interviewed Warner late in the day on August 22 and into the early morning on August 23. Warner was subsequently arrested, charged and convicted of the first degree murder and first degree rape of 11-month-old Adriana Waller. In addition to the death sentence, the jury assessed punishment at nine hundred ninety-nine years imprisonment on the rape conviction. Warner’s original conviction in 1999 was overturned by the appeals court after it found the trial judge erred by seating a juror who said he had “a strong bias towards the death penalty.” Warner was again convicted and sentenced to death in 2003. During the retrial, Warner's 12-year-old son testified that he saw his father shake Adriana on the day she died. "My dad didn't get along with Adriana," said the boy, who lives in California with his mother and siblings. "She would cry, make a lot of noise." He also said the day the infant died wasn't the first time he had seen his father shaking the infant. After the baby was shaken, the boy said, he stayed most of the afternoon in his sister's bedroom. "I think he was angry so that's why I stayed in my sister's room," the boy said. ******* Mother of infant who was raped and murdered speaks out on man convicted of the crime Click to view source OKLAHOMA CITY — After a number of delays, Charles Frederick Warner is now scheduled to die by lethal injection January 15, 2015. It was August 22nd, 1997 when Oklahoma City Police detectives first arrested Warner for the rape and murder of his girlfriend’s baby girl. According to a video-taped interrogation, Warner told police the baby fell off the bed. In 1999, an Oklahoma County jury first convicted Warner of rape and first degree murder. They gave him the death penalty for killing 11-month-old Adrianna Waller. Lou Keel prosecuted the case in 1999, and again in 2002 and 2003. “Adrianna couldn’t do anything to protect herself, either sexually or from suffering the ultimate violence at the hands of Charles Warner.” said the prosecutor Lou Keel. The autopsy report shows Adrianna’s skull was broken; she had a fractured jaw, bruising consistent with shaken baby and rape. “Charles Warner was convicted twice by juries and given the death penalty each time and given 75 years for the sexual assault.” Keel said. Charles Warner has been behind bars since the day of the murder. He now awaits his execution at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. Warner was up for clemency in March 2014. The board denied Warner’s request, but during that proceeding he found himself with a surprising ally, the mother of his young victim spoke up on his behalf to spare his life.
She says she doesn't remember the prosecutor ever asking what she thought about justice for Charles Warner. “I don’t want him to be sentenced to death.” Waller said. “If they truly want to honor me then they will do away with the death penalty for him and they will give him life in prison without the possibility of parole because that’s the only thing that’s going to honor me.” Waller is adamantly against the death penalty. She is a Christian and a victim of a vicious crime, and she believes God alone is the giver and taker of life. “I can only see him spending the rest of his life in prison and dying in prison without him ever walking outside of those cell walls.” said Waller. “I don’t see any justice in just sentencing someone to die. To me, the justice is in someone living with what they have done to you to your family, and having to live with that the rest of their life knowing they will never get to walk out those doors.” “That’s a very powerful statement.” said American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Legal Director, Brady Henderson. “I think she hits it right on the head when she said you know what this person took life, this person murdered. This person killed. Now we’re just doing the same thing in my baby’s name. That’s wrong. That’s fundamentally wrong.” Oklahoma is one of 32 states where criminals can be sentenced to death. There are 18 states that have abolished capital punishment. “We can’t control that somebody killed someone. We know murders happen sometimes. What we can do is make sure we don’t commit them as a state. We can make sure that we as a people don’t murder. We don’t kill. We don’t take life. We don’t make the same mistake of failing to value life.” Henderson said. Death penalty advocates believe there are some crimes for which the only appropriate punishment is death. “This person doesn't deserve to live.” said Keel. “If you’re going to have a death penalty, if there are going to be some crimes, some homicides, that are so atrocious… then the rape and the brutal murder of a child has to qualify.” “When he dies I want it to be because it’s his time, not because he’s been executed because due to what happened to me and my child.” said Shonda Waller. “I don’t want that on my hands. It makes me feel like I’m no different than him, and I don’t want to feel that way.” Waller has moved out-of-state and has no plans to come back to Oklahoma to witness Warner’s upcoming execution. ******* Life of inmate who raped, murdered 11-month-old girl spared by execution blunder: Justice? Click to view source Published April 30, 2014. In one sense, Oklahoma death row inmate Charles Warner is among the luckiest people on the planet this morning. After all, he’s supposed to be dead. Warner had a date with a lethal injection needle right after Clayton Lockett. But Lockett’s execution, using a new mix of lethal drugs, went so badly that executions are now stayed in the state. And there could be a total re-examination of capital punishment in Oklahoma, but also elsewhere in America, as a result. "I have asked the Department of Corrections to conduct a full review of Oklahoma's execution procedures to determine what happened and why during this evening's execution of Clayton Derrell Lockett," Governor Mary Fallin said. This, just a couple of hours before Warner was slated to die last night on the same lethal injection gurney. So who is this man getting this huge legal break? According to his conviction history, Warner raped and murdered 11-month-old Adrianna Waller in 1997 in Oklahoma County. He was convicted in 1999. Background according to Warner’s death row profile: Adrianna Waller was the daughter of Warner's live-in girlfriend. During the sentencing phase, jurors heard testimony that he had previously sexually and physically abused his ex-wife and a five-year-old girl. And Warner's seven-year-old son testified for the prosecution that he had witnessed his father abuse Adrianna on previous occasions. During the ultimately fatal attack she was sexually molested. She had a six-inch skull fracture, a broken jaw, three broken ribs, bruised lungs and a lacerated liver and spleen. He has been on death row since August 4, 2003. And now, who knows how much longer Warner will wait. The two-week stay on executions in Oklahoma might just be for starters, according to officials quoted by the Chicago Tribune. Attorneys for death row inmates have argued that the drugs used in Oklahoma and other states could cause unnecessarily painful deaths, which would amount to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the U.S. Constitution. "After weeks of Oklahoma refusing to disclose basic information about the drugs for tonight's lethal injection procedures, tonight Clayton Lockett was tortured to death," said Madeline Cohen, an attorney for Warner. "This could be a real turning point in the whole debate as people get disgusted by this sort of thing," said Richard Dieter, the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, which monitors capital punishment. "This might lead to a halt in executions until states can prove they can do it without problems. Someone was killed tonight by incompetence," Dieter said. Background according to the Chicago Tribune: Oklahoma had set up a new lethal injection procedure and cocktail of chemicals earlier this year after it was no longer able to obtain the drugs it had once used for executions. Oklahoma uses three drugs in its new lethal injection mixture, which consists of midazolam to cause unconsciousness, vecuronium bromide to stop respiration and potassium chloride to stop the heart, the Department of Corrections said. In order to obtain drugs used for execution, Oklahoma and other states have turned to compounding pharmacies, which are lightly regulated agencies that combine chemicals for medical purposes. ******* Charles Warner Executed: Baby Killer Says 'My Body Is On Fire' During Lethal Injection In Oklahoma Click to view source McALESTER, Okla. (AP) -- In its first lethal injection since a botched one last spring, Oklahoma executed a convicted killer with a three-drug method also used by Florida for a punishment the same night. In an execution Thursday that lasted 18 minutes, Oklahoma inmate Charles Frederick Warner showed no physical signs of distress after the lethal drugs were administered, although he did say, "My body is on fire." He was declared dead at 7:28 p.m. CST. Warner, 47, was put to death for killing an infant in 1997. He was originally scheduled to be executed in April on the same night as Clayton Lockett, who began writhing on the gurney, moaning and trying to lift his head after he'd been declared unconscious. That prompted state officials to impose a moratorium on executions in Oklahoma until an investigation was completed into what went wrong. Wearing gray prison scrubs and covered with a sheet up to his waist, Warner, bald and clean shaven, was strapped to a gurney with intravenous lines in both arms. When asked before the execution began if he had any final words, Warner responded: "Before I give my final statement, I'll tell you they poked me five times. It hurt. It feels like acid." Warner also apologized to his family for the pain he caused them and said: "I'm not a monster. I didn't do everything they said I did." Witnesses said they saw slight twitching in Warner's neck about three minutes after the lethal injection began. The twitching lasted about seven minutes until he stopped breathing. Warner's attorney, Madeline Cohen, who witnessed the execution, said in a statement there was no way to know if Warner suffered because the second drug, a paralytic, would have prevented him from moving. "Because Oklahoma injected Mr. Warner with a paralytic tonight, acting as a chemical veil, we will never know whether he experienced the intense pain of suffocation and burning that would result from injecting a conscious person with rocuronium bromide and potassium chloride," Cohen said. It was the second time Oklahoma used the sedative midazolam as part of a three-drug method that had been challenged by Warner and other death row inmates as presenting an unconstitutional risk of pain and suffering. The execution came after a divided U.S. Supreme Court in a 5-4 ruling said it wouldn't consider an appeal over the drugs. In a dissenting opinion, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that she believes questions about the effectiveness of the drugs are particularly important because of states' increasing reliance on new and scientifically untested methods of execution. "Petitioners have committed horrific crimes, and should be punished," Sotomayor wrote. "But the Eighth Amendment guarantees that no one should be subjected to an execution that causes searing, unnecessary pain before death." Warner was executed for killing his roommate's infant daughter in Oklahoma City. Florida executed Johnny Shane Kormondy, 42, for killing a man during a 1993 home-invasion robbery in Pensacola. Both states started their executions with midazolam. Oklahoma increased by five times the amount of the sedative it planned to use to mirror the recipe that Florida had used in nearly a dozen successful executions. Midazolam also was used in problematic executions last year in Arizona and Ohio, however. Inmates snorted and gasped during those lethal injections that took longer than expected. Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt has acknowledged that midazolam is not Oklahoma's first choice to be used in lethal injections. But he said prison officials have been unable to secure other, more effective drugs because the manufacturers oppose their use in executions. After Lockett's execution was botched, a state investigation determined that a single intravenous line failed and that the drugs were administered locally instead of directly into his bloodstream. Since then, Oklahoma has ordered new medical equipment such as backup IV lines and an ultrasound machine for finding veins, and renovated the execution chamber with new audio and video equipment to help the execution team spot potential problems. |
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01-19-2015, 10:46 PM
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Re: 2015 Executions in the USA
Only problem with your little plan is that damn piece of paper called the Constitution, specifically, the Eighth Amendment...  |
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01-20-2015, 09:15 PM
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Re: 2015 Executions in the USA
People should have the right to see what their government is doing with their tax dollars. Ever read what the effects of the electric chair were? Shave off your body hair so it wouldn't burn, blindfold you so the gallery would see your eyeballs explode, stuff cotton balls up your ass so you wouldn't shit and bleed out of your ass....... Murder is murder IMHO. |
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01-21-2015, 02:13 PM
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Yeah for a couple of years now Judging from some of the transcripts of botched lethal injections the chair might have been easier. There's a lot of stories about the gas chamber too. Death is death it's still going to list homicide on the death certificate.
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01-23-2015, 10:54 AM
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Re: 2015 Executions in the USA
Name: Arnold PRIETO  Date of Execution: January 21, 2015 - 6:31pm State: Texas Age: 41 Date of Birth: June 9, 1973 Race: Hispanic Classification: Murderer Method of Murder: Stabbing with screwdriver Date of Offence: September 11, 1993 Characteristics: Robbery Victim/s: 3 - Virginia Rodriguez, 62 & Rodolfo Rodriguez, 72 (Great Aunt and Uncle to Prieto's co-defendants); Paula Moran, 90 (co-defendants ex-nanny and family friend). Victim's Race: Hispanic Years from Sentence to Execution: 20 Method: Lethal Injection (1 drug: pentobarbital) Last Words: “There are no endings — only beginnings. Love y’all, see you soon.” Moments later, he yelled "I can smell it, woah!" Last Meal: Texas no longer allows special requests for last meals, fo Prieto was served the same meal as the other inmates: Barbecued chopped beef, pinto beans, and carrots, with the usual choice of tea, punch, or water to drink. Co-defendants: Guadalupe Hernandez (serving a life sentence) and Jesse Hernandez (all charges dropped due to lack of evidence). Circumstances of Offense: Prieto and two other men went to the home of Rodolfo Rodriguez, 72, and his wife, Virginia, 62, who cooked the visitors breakfast. Prieto and Jesse Hernandez then used screwdrivers to attack the couple, also killing Paula Moran, 92, who was in the house, the Texas Attorney General's Office said. The three assailants, who had binged on cocaine, ransacked the house, stealing cash and goods valued at a few hundred dollars, it said. Hernandez was under 18 years of age at the time of the crime and could not be sentenced to death because he was a minor. He is currently serving a life sentence. The other person with the assailants, Guadalupe "Lupe" Hernandez, brother of Jesse, was not charged. ***** Killer of 3 executed, decades after turning down 30-year plea deal HUNTSVILLE — Death row inmate Arnold Prieto, convicted 20 years ago of a brutal attack with a screwdriver that left three San Antonio residents stabbed to death, has been executed. He was pronounced dead by prison officials at 6:31 p.m., 20 minutes after he was injected with a lethal dose of the sedative pentobarbital. In a brief final statement Prieto, 41, said “there are no endings — only beginnings.” “Love y’all, see you soon,” he also said, noting moments later that he could smell the drug. “Woah,” he added as he took his last conscious breaths. Prieto spent Wednesday morning taking pictures with his mother and was given a last meal of barbecue chopped beef, carrots and pinto beans with tea or water, according to prison officials. He has asked his sister, two friends and a spiritual adviser to be in one of the death chamber’s two observation booths as the execution took place. In the other booth, spots were reserved for four sons and a daughter-in-law of victims Virginia Rodriguez, 62, and Rodolfo Rodriguez, 72. Prieto is the only one of the three men arrested in 1994 to have received the death penalty for the capital murders of the Rodriguezes and Paula Moran, 90. Brothers Jesse and Guadalupe Hernandez — grand-nephews of the Rodriguezes — were also initially implicated. The murders were committed one day before Jesse Hernandez’s 17th birthday so he wasn’t eligible for the death penalty. He’s serving a life sentence. Guadalupe Hernandez, originally labeled by police as the mastermind of the robbery-turned-triple-slaying, had all charges against him dropped. Prosecutors at the time cited a lack of evidence and called his release unfortunate. In a statement to police, Prieto said the trio, who lived in the Dallas suburb of Carrollton, met in the summer of 1993 and were heavy cocaine users. It was the idea of Guadalupe Rodriguez, he told police, to drive to San Antonio in September of that year to rob a rich uncle who ran a check-cashing business out of his home in the 1100 block of West Mistletoe Avenue. They snorted cocaine the whole way there and arrived in the middle of the night, Prieto said. Virginia Rodriguez, he recalled in the five-page statement, invited them in and made them a breakfast of eggs, tortillas and orange juice. After they ate, Guadalupe Rodriguez stabbed his aunt repeatedly with a screwdriver, Prieto told police. Prieto did the same to Rodolfo Rodriguez and Jesse Hernandez stabbed Moran — a family friend and former nanny to the Rodriguez children —when she came out of her bedroom, according to Prieto’s statement. Jesse Hernandez also gave a statement to police in which he said it was Prieto who had committed all the murders. Guadalupe Hernandez never gave a statement, but prosecutors offered Prieto a plea deal to testify against him in exchange for two 30-year sentences. He declined the offer. ***** Prieto was well known for his prison artworks. Here is a small sample: "Texas Death Machine"  "Untitled"  |
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01-23-2015, 01:18 PM
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Re: 2015 Executions in the USA
Execution Stayed: Dennis C REED (Pennsylvania)  Pennsylvania Stays January 15, 2015, Execution of Dennis Reed Click to view source Update: Monday, January 5, 2015, 4:45 pm EST Dennis C. Reed's execution was scheduled for 7 pm EST, on Thursday, January 15, 2014, at the State Correctional Institute Rockview, in Rockview, Pennsylvania. Dennis was granted a stay of execution. Forty-three-year-old Dennis is convicted of murdering Wendy Miller, his girlfriend, on February 1, 2008, in New Castle, Pennsylvania. Dennis has spent the last three years on Pennsylvania’s death row. In 2001, Dennis Reed and his girlfriends, Wendy Miller moved into an apartment together, along with their 12-year-old son and Wendy’s three other children. The relationship soured and Wendy applied for a Protection From Abuse Order against Reed. However, on December 16, 2001, Reed showed up at the house where he forced Wendy and her children into her SUV. Reed and Wendy’s son was staying with another family member at that time. Reed had them drive to a local housing project, where Reed and Wendy exited the vehicle. Reed was witnessed sliding a pistol-grip shotgun into his pants. Reed returned to the vehicle alone approximately 20 minutes later. When the children asked about their mother, Reed told them that their aunt had driven her to work. For the next week, Reed and the children essentially lived out the SUV, until police located the vehicle. Wendy’s family had reported to the police that she, her children, and the vehicle as missing. Inside the vehicle, police located a shotgun with a spent casing and several live rounds. There was also drugs and clothing was recovered from Reed which was stained with Wendy’s blood. Wendy’s body was eventually found December 23, 2001, in a desolated and secluded area of the woods. She had been shot with a shotgun in the head at close range. Reed claims he was drunk or high when he kidnapped the children and their mother. Reed also said he did not remember the murder. This is Dennis Reed’s second execution warrant. Dennis was granted of stay of execution of by the Lawrence County Court of Common Pleas. |
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01-23-2015, 01:53 PM
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And they don't use the gas chamber either. Neither has been used since the 90s although the chair is still a legal option in a handful of Southern States. As for cause of death, while it's true the death will be listed as homicide, that's not to be confused with murder.
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