Showing posts with label death penalty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label death penalty. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Justice...16 years and a day too late.

On January 12, 1998, A scumbag named Andrew Brennan murdered Lauren County, GA Sheriff's Deputy Kyle Dinkeller during a traffic stop.

I won't Monday morning quarterback Deputy Dinkheller's handling of the stop initially, but apparently the backstory on it is that he was recently reprimanded for being "too aggressive" with people on traffic stops, and that may have been a factor in the way he chose to handle this situation.

Here's the video of that encounter, from Deputy Dinkheller's dash cam. Be forewarned that it's graphic and painful to watch.



The deputy was hit nine times, the last time being when Brennan ran up and executed him at point-blank range.

Deputy Dinkheller was 23 years old, and his wife was pregnant with their second child. Brennan was an Army Officer during the Vietnam War thirty years before he murdered the deputy and his attorneys tried to claim that PTSD from those days caused him to commit this murder. Frankly, that's an insult to hundreds of thousands of vets who came home and never murdered anyone, but the argument didn't wash, as Brennan was executed last night, 16 years and one day after he murdered Deputy Dinkeller. Good riddance to Brennan and RIP, Deputy Dinkheller.

And for those of you out there who hate on cops and criticize them for the way that they handle people on some car stops, this is the flip side and it shows what happens when they don't take proper control. And that's why most police recruits see this video early on in their training these days.

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

John Kerry sides with illegal alien cop killer against Texas and the United States

Lurch shows us all once again how he's wrong for America.

Planned execution in Texas draws high-profile protests
Secretary of State John Kerry is among those who say Edgar Tamayo Arias, who killed policeman Guy Gaddis, was denied due process.

Yep. Come into our country illegally, rob people, kill a police officer, and Obama's cabana boy John Kerry rushes to your defense. Is this a great country, or what?

Well Kerry can go to hell. I'm siding with Texas. And if they put his execution on Pay-per-view, I'll subscribe and watch.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Who's smirking now, punk?

Troy Davis smirked as he murdered Savannah Police Officer Mark McPhail, an Army veteran and father of two young children. That was 22 years ago, and justtice came round tonight as the US Supreme Court refused to grant him yet another stay and the State of Georgia put his lights out for good.

One less POS on the planet breathing our air.

And for those who still doubt his guilt, let me recap.

Davis had been at a party that night, surrounded by people who knew him. While there, he shot a man. Witnesses identified him and shell casings were recovered. He was convicted of that shooting in another trial.

Following that shooting, he went to a Burger King with another scumbag and they beat a homeless man over a can of beer. When Officer McPhail, who was working an off-duty security shift at the Burger King saw this and tried to help the homeless man, Davis shot him twice, once in the chest and then again in the face as Officer mcPhail lay on the ground. Witnesses reported that davis was smirking when he did this.Davis ran away and fled to Atlanta the next day, but again, shell casings were recovered, and they matched the ones recovered at the previous shooting. On top of that, his pal who'd been there with him went to the police and gave a full statement, implicating Davis. Six other eyewitnesses who were right there when it happened also positively identified Davis.

Here. Read all about it.

Yes, some of those witnesses tried to recant their stories recently, twenty-two years later. But it's no wonder, what with Davis supporters suddenly showing up on their doorsteps and badgering them about a man who was going to die because of things that they said two decades ago. But when they had testified originally, they were also cross-examined thoroughly by Davis' defense counsel, and had they been mistaken or out-and-out lying as a couple are now claiming (since there's no chance of being criminally charged for perjury after all these years), it would almost certainly have come out back then when both the prosecution and defense attorneys were subjecting them and their testimony to intense scrutiny.

Bottom line is that, despite Davis' supporters claiming that there was no evidence to convict him, there was plenty. That's why every appellate court that looked at this case found no reason to set the jury decision or death sentence aside. The reviwers who had access to all of the evidence affirmed that Davis was, in fact, guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt, and that's why, twenty two years later, he's finally assumed room temperature per judicial order. Justice was tardy here but it's finally been served.

Burn in Hell, scumbag.

Oh--and Lawrence Brewer was executed in Texas this night as well for his role in savagely dragging a man to death behind a pick-up truck. It was truly a banner day for Justice. There wasn't much of a protest over his execution though, but then again, he was white.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Ronnie Gardner's going out with a bang tonight.

FIVE bangs, to be exact.
SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah is set to execute a condemned killer by firing squad shortly after midnight Thursday, reviving an old West style of justice that hasn't been used for at least 14 years and that many criticize as archaic.

Barring the success of any final appeals, Ronnie Lee Gardner will be strapped into a chair, have a target pinned over his heart and die in a hail of bullets from five anonymous marksmen armed with .30-caliber rifles and firing from behind a ported wall.

The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver denied Gardner's petition for a stay Thursday, saying allegations of a conflict of interest by the Utah attorney general's office were without merit. An appeal is still pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, and Gardner also has asked Gov. Gary Herbert for a temporary stay.

Gardner will be the third man killed by firing squad in the U.S. since a U.S. Supreme Court ruling reinstated capital punishment in 1976. Although Utah altered its capital punishment law in 2004 to make lethal injection the default method, nine inmates convicted before that date, including Gardner, can still choose the firing squad instead.

Gardner, 49, was sentenced to death for a 1985 capital murder conviction stemming from the fatal courthouse shooting of attorney Michael Burdell during an escape attempt. Gardner was at the court because he faced a 1984 murder charge in the shooting death of bartender Melvyn Otterstrom.

Tami Stewart's father, George "Nick" Kirk, was a bailiff who was shot and wounded in Gardner's botched escape. Kirk suffered chronic health problems until his death in 1995 and became frustrated by the lack of justice Gardner's years of appeals afforded him, Stewart said.

She said she's not happy about the idea of Gardner's death but believes it will bring her family some closure.

"I think at that moment, he will feel that fear that his victims felt," Stewart said.

That works for me. See ya, dirtbag.

Saturday, January 09, 2010

It took 13 years, but Justice was served in Texas

It took a while, but there's finally closure in the case of the cowardly cop-killer, Kenneth Mosley.
HUNTSVILLE, Texas – In the end, Sheila Moore decided to witness the execution of her husband's killer – just in case, she said, he wanted to ask for forgiveness.

He didn't, and at 6:16 p.m. Thursday, Kenneth Mosley was pronounced dead, the first person executed in the state this year and the 448th since 1982, when Texas began using lethal injections.

Mosley was convicted of fatally shooting Garland police Officer Michael "David" Moore during a failed bank robbery on Feb. 15, 1997.

"While earthly justice was served, it does not change what happened almost 13 years ago," his widow said in a statement read by her brother about 15 minutes after Mosley died.

"There will always be an empty place in our hearts for our husband, father and friend. We pray for healing for everyone involved."

Moore had been hesitant about the death penalty since Mosley was convicted and given the punishment.

Yet, when the time came, she stood silently behind Garland Capt. Bill Cortez and watched as the state executed the 51-year-old Mesquite man.

When Mosley was asked if he wanted to make a statement to the people gathered to witness his death, he shook his head and mouthed the word, "No."

He never looked at the dozen or so people standing behind a transparent screen, a few feet from his face.

Wearing black-framed glasses and with his arms and chest strapped to a gurney, Mosley remained silent and kept his eyes mostly closed as he seemed to wait for the drugs to take effect. It took less than 15 minutes.

Moore's three children also made the trip but did not witness the execution.

The youngest, Zachary, was 9 months old when his father died at the age of 32. Moore wanted her son, now 13, to be part of the police vigil outside the prison walls so he would have a memory related to his father.

"At least he'll have that," she said before the family traveled to Huntsville.

The last time Mosley confronted the Moore family was at his trial in November 1997. He had lashed out at them in an expletive-filled rant during the punishment phase of his trial.

From the witness stand, he also chastised the jury for finding him guilty of capital murder.

Mosley, who shot Moore five times, said that the shooting was accidental and that he was simply trying to hand over his gun to the officer. "I never knew that gun had went off," he testified.

"The Moore family, all they wanted is somebody they think slaughtered their loved one to die. All they wanted was a conviction."

Mosley's legal team spent nearly 13 years going through the appeals process. His execution was postponed twice last year.

Shortly before 6 p.m. Thursday, his appeals were declared exhausted, allowing the execution to proceed.

Mosley's last meal, served at 4 p.m., was an assortment of fried foods, including three pieces of chicken, two pork chops, a cheeseburger, 10 pieces of bacon, French fries, okra, green tomatoes and apple cobbler.

He was placed on "death watch" Tuesday, a 72-hour period during which he was monitored every 15 minutes by prison guards.

Prison officials offered a snapshot of Mosley's activities during that period, which included sleeping, reading, pacing his cell and showering.

He saw his last visitor, who was not identified, on Tuesday for a five-hour visit that included lunch.

Cortez said he was surprised that the execution occurred so quietly and with no expression of pain from Mosley.

"It seemed just too easy, too easy of a punishment," the Garland officer said.

Matt Leigeber said his sister, Sheila Moore, and her children have gone through "an emotional roller coaster" waiting for the execution.

They were too emotional to talk Thursday, he said.

"It's been a rough 13 years for everybody involved," Leigeber said.

"We lost a husband, a father and a friend, but also a policeman and a Marine."
When the lowest of the low in our society murders one of our finest, there really can be only one response from society. It's good to see that the courts in Texas understand this concept. It's also good to see the law-enforcement community standing together with the family of Officer Moore throughout this long and traumatizing saga. That says a lot about the law enforcement culture and the concept of the police "family". Kudos also to the Dallas News for not giving us a sob story about this cretin like these losers from Scotland who set up a pro-Mosley website and a fund to make Mosley's prison stay more comfortable. I've enjoyed e-mailing them and rubbing their noses in the fact that their little pet caged monster has finally been put down. Feel free to join me. :-)

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Come on, Ohio....Kill the guy already.

Romell Broom needs to be off our planet today. But those prison volunteers just can't seem to get it together.
LUCASVILLE, Ohio — Executioners struggled to find suitable veins to put a condemned inmate to death Tuesday in a prison scene reminiscent of the problems that delayed executions in 2006 and 2007 and led to changes in Ohio's lethal injection process.

The team of prison volunteers was having trouble inserting IVs into the arms of 53-year-old Romell Broom, who entered the death chamber at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility shortly before 2 p.m., said Tim Sweeney, one of Broom's attorneys.

Sweeney said execution team members took a break after struggling to access the Broom's veins.

He lost a last-minute appeal earlier in the day, delaying the execution originally scheduled for 10 a.m.

Messages were left for prison officials in Lucasville and for the Ohio Attorney General's office.

A medical evaluation Monday determined that veins in Broom's right arm appeared accessible, while those in his left arm were not as visible.

Broom is sentenced to die for raping and killing 14-year old Tryna Middleton in Cleveland in 1984.
Guys--he raped and murdered a 14 year old girl--someone's child. And this was after he'd already done time for raping another 12-year old girl. If you can't find a vein, I'll donate a baseball bat. Come to think of it, I'll just loan you the bat. I want it back when you're done. I'm betting I could auction it off for big bucks on eBay and donate the proceeds to a crime victims' fund.

Monday, August 04, 2008

Don't mess with Texas...especially if you're a murderous illegal alien gang member.

In June of 1993, two young girls--16-year-old Elizabeth Pena and 14-year-old Jennifer Ertman--were walking home when they stumbled into a gang initiation. Members of the gang--Mexican citizens illegally in our country--raped the girls for over two hours and then beat and kicked them to death. STORY HERE
Tomorrow, the State of Texas is going to execute Jose Medellin for his role in that unspeakable crime.

This has of course sparked outrage from the usual sob-sister "save-the-criminal-and-screw-the-victim" groups like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and other groups made up of elitist liberals who think that it's chic and fashionable to bawl crocodile tears for the worst of the worst and who will almost certainly vote for Obama when they get a chance. It's also caused the United States to be criticized--and sued before the World Court--by the government of Mexico.

Mexico, you see, doesn't believe that we here in the United States should prohibit any of their citizens from crossing over into our country at will, nor do they believe that we should discriminate between Mexicans here in violation of our laws and American citizens...unless, of course, that Mexican illegally in our country commits a heinous crime that would result in a death sentence for an American. In that case, Mexico demands that we discriminate and not execute their citizens. Jose Medellin is one of 51 Mexican murders currently under sentence of death in this country. And Mexico has taken it's fight for him to the United Nations and the World Court, which ruled that Texas could not execute him.

Admirably, Texas told the World Court to pound sand. Medellin committed these murders in Texas, not in Mexico or any part of the world that the World Court has jurisdiction over. Texas only recognizes one court higher than it's own state courts, and that's the United States Supreme Court, which has already given Medellin's execution the go-ahead.

President Bush--ever the friend of Mexico--has also urged Texas to call the execution off. Texas respectfully declined, citing their right to enforce their own laws irregardless of race, creed or national origin. Medellin's going to die tomorrow and that's nothing more than Justice and deserved partial closure for the families of those two girls. (Several of Medellin's illegal alien co-conspirators received lesser sentences due to their age at the time. Another one is also on death row.) There may be protests in Mexico tomorrow, but they won't hold a candle to the protests that we in America have staged in response to the uncountable depredations against American citizens in our own country committed by Mexicans who have illegally entered our land and who all too often have not been removed by our government and who have even been sheltered by cities such as San Francisco.

Americans deserve justice when murderers prey on our kids, and that justice should be equally applied no matter if the killers are Americans or foreign nationals. And if Mexico objects to us executing their murdering citizens, perhaps they'd do well to stop protesting our border walls and start building their own walls designed to keep their criminal offenders from entering our country in the first place. After all, we can't execute them if they never come here and murder our citizens in the first place, can we?

Oh--and World Court? Screw you. This is OUR country and the U.S. Constitution and the U.S. Supreme Court hold sway here, not you. And besides, if it weren't for America and the sacrifice of over 400,000 Americans, you'd be conducting court business in German and/or Japanese today.


8-5-08 UPDATE It's ON!

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

The sob-sisters are crying for the poor murderers again

According to this story in the Washington Post, we're now supposed to demand an end to executions of America's worst criminals because someone now suspects that they can feel some pain from the drugs being put into their system.

Now we really don't know for sure that the murderers, rapists and torturers being put to death feel pain or discomfort for a minute or two but I have to ask why we should even care? I mean we're not talking about people who didn't return library books here--these are the people who rape and murder kids or beat senior citizens to death with tire irons. Their crimes were heinous enough that twelve Americans on a jury who who heard all the details decided that they had to go.

However this has never sat well with the liberal left, notably the ivory tower academics who sit in campus classrooms and spew their opinions at today's students. It you read the Post story, you'll see that the whining and wingeing is coming from that quarter yet again. The story is built around the claims of three university teachers who have probably never been any closer to a real murder or the families of murder victims than the episodes of Matlock that they watch on Sunday nights. This was also mentioned by Michael Rushford of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, a victims' rights group. commenting on the obvious bias and hidden motive of the academics, he said: "These people wouldn't be okay with Ethel Merman singing people to death."

Frankly I don't care if Tim McVeigh felt a few twinges on his way out. I hope that Wesley Cook, aka Mumia Abu Jamal feels plenty when he goes. Neither they nor the other creeps on Death Row ever cared how THEIR victims felt so why are we worrying about whether or not they feel uncomfortable for a few seconds? But this debate never ends. The liberal "keep them alive" movement has fought to make almost every state switch to lethal injection because the electric chair, gas chamber, firing squad and hanging were too barbaric for them and didn't reliably kill quickly enough, and not they're attacking the lethal injections for the same reason. Let's be honest even if they won't--their goal is to end all executions of even the most vicious criminals and since they can't persuade the public that these criminals have any redeeming value to justify keeping them alive, they're attacking the means that we use to execute them,hoping to shut down all executions on a technicality.

Call me a meanie, but I want to go the other way. I want to see the death penalty expanded and given to all first degree murderers, anyone who murders a child or rapes their victim, anyone who kills a police officer, and anyone who commits an act of domestic terrorism. I want it to be uniform, with no chance for a set-aside, and I think that they should be televised or at least open to the public, perhaps with admission charged and snacks sold to defray the costs. Heck, I'd take a vacation day to watch John Allen Muhammed, the Beltway Sniper, swing from the gallows, and I might even make the trip out to California to watch murderer Scott Peterson electrocuted. I'd probably even buy t-shirts if vendors had them available.

But you average folks need to be wary of the liberal head fake here. They don't really care if multiple murderer Antoinette Frank feels like she's suffocating or if the drugs cause poor cop-killing Wesley's skin to tingle as he dies. They want to get you all worked up so that their goal of no more executions ever will be realized.
Mind you, these are often the same people who think that abortion on demand for any reason at any stage during the pregnancy or even the delivery it a woman's right.

Well maybe I can look past that hypocrisy this time. It seems clear that all the liberals need to do is to just start looking at these executions as retroactive abortions and then they should be ok with them.