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Post by rayozz on May 12, 2010 1:12:35 GMT -6
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Post by forgesfire on May 12, 2010 17:46:10 GMT -6
Strickland denied Clemency, 10 a.m. tomorrow he's toast.
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Post by rayozz on May 12, 2010 22:49:53 GMT -6
Last Meal: " The 48-year-old Beuke opted against an elaborate special meal, as the last meal is called in Ohio, and planned to eat the normal prison dinner of Chicken a la King, mashed potatoes and lima beans."
Gee; the normal prison dinner sounds pretty good
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Post by Californian on May 13, 2010 7:33:21 GMT -6
I think this guy is the one who shot a classmate's brother and left him for dead (Wahoff.) The brother survived but was a paraplegic. Died about 4-5 years ago. Adios, MF.
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Post by Californian on May 13, 2010 8:11:33 GMT -6
Looks like it's on. He should be hooked up right now.
Ohio high court refuses to stay Thursday execution By Associated Press
POSTED: 09:32 a.m. EDT, May 13, 2010
LUCASVILLE, Ohio: The Ohio Supreme Court has turned down a stay of execution for a man scheduled to die Thursday for killing one motorist and trying to kill two others.
The decision from the state's highest court came less than an hour before 48-year-old Michael Beuke was to die by lethal injection. His federal public defender had said the appeal was the last one pending.
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Post by Charlene on May 13, 2010 8:13:33 GMT -6
On May 14, 1983, Gregory Wahoff offered a ride to Michael Beuke who was walking along the side of the road. Once inside Wahoff’s car, Beuke produced a .38 caliber revolver and demanded that Wahoff drive to a rural area in Hamilton County, Ohio. When they reached a sufficiently secluded area, Beuke led Wahoff into the woods; Wahoff eventually charged towards Beuke, attempting to wrestle the gun away from him. After this effort was unsuccessful, Wahoff began to run away, but Beuke shot him in the back, lodging a bullet in his spine and paralyzing him. Beuke then placed the gun against Wahoff’s face and fired a second shot, which passed through Wahoff’s cheek and lodged in the ground. Wahoff was fully conscious at this point, but he pretended to be dead and apparently succeeded in fooling Beuke, who returned to the car and drove off. Later that day, the police found Wahoff and took him to the hospital for emergency treatment; Wahoff survived Beuke’s brutal attack but he was permanently paralyzed, confined to a wheelchair and eventually died. A few weeks after the attempted murder of Gregory Wahoff, on June 1, 1983, the police discovered Robert Craig’s body in a ditch on the side of a rural road in Clermont County, Ohio. Craig worked as a deliveryman supplying fresh fish to local restaurants, and during these travels, he would often offer rides to hitchhikers in the area. Beuke allegedly told Michael J. Cahill, a man with whom Beuke worked, that he killed Craig after Craig picked him up along the side of the highway. An autopsy on Craig’s body revealed that he was shot twice in the head and once in the chest, and the police found his abandoned car in the parking lot of a local shopping mall. Two days later, on June 3, 1983, Bruce Graham saw Beuke walking down the highway with a red gas can in hand. In an effort to help the apparently stranded traveler, Graham offered Beuke a ride to the nearest gas station. As he had done with Wahoff, Beuke brandished a short-barreled revolver and instructed Graham to drive to a rural area. When they arrived at the secluded destination, Beuke immediately fired at Graham. The bullet grazed Graham’s forehead, inflicting a minor but bloody wound. After an unsuccessful effort to wrestle the gun from Beuke, Graham sought refuge in a nearby farmhouse. As Graham fled, Beuke fired several shots, one of which struck Graham in the shoulder. After Beuke realized that Graham had escaped to safety, he got into the car and left the scene of the shooting. Sometime thereafter, Beuke’s co-worker, Cahill, told the police what he knew of Beuke’s involvement in the “mad hitchhiker” shootings. The police obtained a warrant and searched the car that Beuke had been driving, which he had borrowed from Cahill. The police discovered a cup that had been removed from Wahoff’s car, a red gas can, and a blood-stained football jersey. The officers arrested Beuke who, at the time of his arrest, was in possession of a .38 caliber revolver — the same type of weapon he used to shoot Wahoff in the back. In July 1983, an Ohio grand jury returned a ten-count indictment against Beuke, charging him with one count of aggravated murder, two counts of attempted aggravated murder, three counts of aggravated robbery, three counts of kidnapping, and one count of carrying a concealed weapon. The aggravated murder charge included two specifications, either of which, if proven beyond a reasonable doubt, would make Beuke eligible for the death penalty under Ohio law: (1) committing aggravated murder as part of a course of conduct involving the purposeful attempt to kill two or more persons, and (2) committing aggravated murder in the course of an aggravated robbery. Beuke’s jury trial began on September 19, 1983. The prosecution introduced extensive evidence implicating Beuke in the “mad hitchhiker” shootings, including Wahoff’s and Graham’s testimony of their nearly fatal encounters with Beuke, evidence linking the bullets extracted from Wahoff and Craig to Beuke’s gun, Beuke’s fingerprints on Wahoff’s and Craig’s automobiles, and Cahill’s testimony about Beuke’s confession. On October 5, 1983, the jury returned a guilty verdict on all ten counts and the two specifications, making Beuke eligible for capital punishment. Defense counsel moved for a continuance of the penalty hearing, but the trial court granted only a short, one-day continuance and set the hearing for October 7, 1983. At the penalty hearing, Beuke introduced a presentence report and mitigation testimony from his parents. Unpersuaded by the defense’s evidence, the jury found beyond a reasonable doubt that the aggravating factors outweighed the mitigating evidence and recommended that Beuke be sentenced to death. The trial court adopted the jury’s recommendation and imposed the death penalty. In April 2010, 27 years after imposing a sentence of death in this case, the trial court judge wrote a letter to the parole board opposing clemency for Beuke.
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Post by Californian on May 13, 2010 8:19:23 GMT -6
Wotta wuss! Tough luck, sucker. LUCASVILLE, Ohio -- An Ohio man dubbed the "homicidal hitchhiker" has been emotional ahead of his scheduled execution for killing one motorist and trying to kill two others. Ohio prisons spokeswoman Julie Walburn says 48-year-old Michael Beuke has cried frequently since arriving Wednesday at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, the site of the state's death chamber. Beuke is scheduled to die by injection Thursday.He terrorized the Cincinnati area in a three-week shooting spree along local roads in 1983. One Ohio man was killed, while another and an Indiana man were wounded. Beuke has since expressed remorse. He lost appeals Wednesday before the U.S. Supreme Court. His public defender says an Ohio Supreme Court appeal is still pending.
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Post by Californian on May 13, 2010 9:11:32 GMT -6
Hasta la vista, sucker. Ohio Flushes Human Turd Michael Beuke died by lethal injection Thursday Updated: Thursday, 13 May 2010, 11:03 AM EDT Published : Thursday, 13 May 2010, 11:03 AM EDT JULIE CARR SMYTH,AP Statehouse Correspondent LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) - Ohio has executed a hitchhiker who admitted to gunning down one motorist who gave him a ride and wounding two others. Forty-eight-year-old Michael Beuke died by lethal injection at 10:53 a.m. Thursday at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville. His death came through the state's primary, one-drug intravenous execution method. In one of his unsuccessful appeals, Beuke had argued about potential complications if the state had been forced to resort to its two-drug backup method.The media had dubbed Beuke the "homicidal hitchhiker" for his three-week string of shootings along Cincinnati area roads in 1983. One Ohio man died. Another Ohio man and a man from Indiana survived their gunshot wounds. Beuke later expressed remorse.
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Post by unkelremus on May 13, 2010 9:56:26 GMT -6
OHIO----execution Ohio executes 'homicidal hitchhiker' Beuke plays keyboard and cries in his cell before execution THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH After playing the keyboard and crying in his cell, Michael Beuke - the Hamilton County man known as the "homicidal hitchhiker" was executed today for a murder he committed nearly 27 years ago. Beuke, 48, succumbed to the lethal injection drug at 10:53 a.m. at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility near Lucasville. Before the chemicals flowed into his bloodstream, he spent 17 minutes reciting the Rosary. He also recited an early Christian creed and the Lord's Prayer as tears rolled down his left cheek. Witnesses were shaking their heads before his repetitive statement was over, clearly impatient it went on so long. He also apologized to the widows of his victims. Once the drugs started flowing, Beuke became completely still within three minutes, and was pronounced dead seven or eight minutes later. Among those who witnessed Beuke's execution were Susan Craig, the widow of murder victim Robert Craig, 27, and Dawn and Paul Wahoff, the children of Greg Wahoff, 28, another of Beuke's victims. Greg Wahoff was paralyzed and wheelchair bound after he was shot in the face and back by Beuke, to whom he had given a ride. Susan Craig said afterward, "It's been a really long time. I was pregnant at the time he was murdered. Now we can talk about Bob and have happy memories and not talk about Michael Beuke." Beuke's attorney, Dale Baich, a federal public defender from Arizona, filed numerous unsuccessful appeals in the past week. Baich was on the case because he originally represented Beuke when Baich was with the Ohio public defender's office. One appeal alleged that Beuke had brain damage; another argued that a prescription medication he took might interfere with the drugs used in the backup, intramuscular lethal injection method. The Ohio Supreme Court and the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Beuke's last minute pleas. Gov. Ted Strickland also denied his clemency request yesterday. "The man who was executed today was not the same person who committed those crimes 27 years ago. His time in prison was a story of remorse and redemption," Baich said. Prison officials said Beuke was very emotional when he arrived at the prison Wednesday morning and continuing crying as he talked to his attorneys throughout the day. He did not ask for a special last meal, instead opting for the standard dinner chicken a la king, mashed potatoes, lima beans and peaches. Prison officials allowed him to have the keyboard for his final day on Earth. Craig picked up Beuke while he hitchhiked on I-275, Cincinnati's outbelt, on June 1, 1983. Beuke used a .38-caliber revolver to shoot Craig in the head and chest, court records show. He dumped Craig's body in a roadside ditch and stole his car. In addition to Craig and Wayhoff, Beuke also shot but did not kill Bruce Graham, 34, of West Harrison, In., after Graham picked him up hitchhiking in June 1983. Prison officials were concerned in the past week that they might not be able to procure enough thiopental sodium, the single drug used in Ohio executions, because of a worldwide shortage. However, the state was able to find enough of the drug to kill Beuke. He was the fifth Ohioan executed in five months this year and the 38th since capital punishment resumed in 1999. With an execution scheduled each month through November, the state likely this year to eclipse the seven men executed in 2004, the modern record. www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/05/13/execution-homicidal-hitchhiker.html?sid=101
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Post by Rev. Agave on May 13, 2010 10:08:27 GMT -6
NEXT!!
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Post by zd3925 on May 13, 2010 10:15:57 GMT -6
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Post by dude on May 13, 2010 15:55:21 GMT -6
The appeal grounds are becoming more interesting and more pathetic. Never knew there was a worldwide shortage of the drug.
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Post by Stormyweather on May 13, 2010 17:37:01 GMT -6
Last statement from 'mad hitchhiker' Michael Beuke: a 17-minute prayerLUCASVILLE, Ohio — Condemned killer Michael F. Beuke held his execution audience captive for an extra 17 minutes Thursday as he turned his final statement at the Death House into a personal prayer for salvation. Beuke, 48, was nicknamed the “mad hitchhiker’’ in 1983 during a shooting spree that left Robert Craig dead and two other drivers who picked him up along Cincinnati-area highways seriously injured. At his execution, he glanced toward the security glass separating his gurney and the witness room, briefly apologizing to Craig’s widow, Susan of Delhi Township, and reciting the longest last statement since executions resumed here in 1999. Prison officials at Southern Ohio Correctional Facility said Beuke, who grew up on West Price Hill, was emotional throughout the 24 hours counting down to his lethal injection. “He’s been crying fairly frequently while he’s been here,’’ said state prison spokeswoman Julie Walburn. About two dozen friends and family members visited the front of his prison cell, two-by-two. He participated in a Catholic mass, and sang while playing on a portable keyboard. As Beuke said, “Mrs. Wahoff, I am sorry. Mrs. Craig, I am sorry. Mr. Graham, I am sorry,’’ Wahoff’s daughter, Dawn, clasped hands with her brother, Paul, and Susan Craig, who sat side-by-side as witnesses. Beuke also was found guilty of the attempted murders of Gregory Wahoff and Bruce Graham. Beuke then launched into a 17-minute recitation of the Roman Catholic rosary, the Lord’s Prayer and other prayers. The 6- foot 4-inch Beuke occasionally whimpered while repeating the Hail Mary dozens of times, clasping rosary beads in his right hand. Dawn later reflected: “I was thinking, ‘You’re stalling the inevitable.’’ But it’s his last minutes of his life. . . There’s nothing that is going to bring my dad back” Gregory Wahoff gave Beuke a ride on May 14, 1983. He was forced to drive at gunpoint, shot in the back and face and left for dead. Wahoff was paralyzed until his death in 2006. Wahoff’s wife, JoAnn, of Bright, Ind., gave up her front-row witness chair to her children. “I was content with watching the body brought out,’’ she said afterward. “I’m just outraged,’’ Mrs. Wahoff said of the decades of legal appeals. “It should not have gone on this long,’’ In an adjoining witness room, Beuke’s federal prosecutor the past 27 years, Dale Baich, took copious notes. His eyes got moist near the end as he folded up his glasses. Beuke’s eyes remained closed throughout the prayers. He then became still, looking upwards. It took less than 10 minutes for a mix of drugs to kill him: he was pronounced dead at 10:53 a.m. “I didn’t take it lightly that a person died today,’’ Susan Craig said during a news conference following the execution. “This is his debt to my family and JoAnn (Wahoff’s) family and today he paid it.” Mrs. Craig called Beuke’s apology unsatisfying: “Don’t you think it’s time you man up and be honest? Don’t you dare tell me you’re sorry.’’ Robert Craig Jr., named after his slain father, accompanied his mother to Lucasville but did not witness the execution. “I don’t know what to say,’’ the son said. “Everything’s a little bit surreal.’’ Beauke was the 38th person put to death in Ohio since the state resumed executions in 1999, and the fifth this year. Six more are scheduled in 2010; the state would set a modern day record if all are carried out. Beuke has said he committed the crimes because he needed $2,500 to hire a lawyer to defend him on a drug-trafficking charge and needed a stolen car to rob a bank. Craig’s body was found June 1, 1983, in a roadside ditch in Clermont County. He had been shot twice in the head and once in the chest with the same revolver used to shoot Wahoff and later Bruce P. Graham of Rising Sun, Ind. Graham saw Beuke walking with a gas can and gave him a ride June 3, 1983. Beuke forced Graham to drive to a rural Indiana area and shot but didn’t kill him. Graham recently visited Beuke on Death Row and asked the Ohio Parole Board to spare his life. news.cincinnati.com/article/20100513/NEWS/305090007/Killer+s+last+words++a+17-minute+prayer
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Post by wrench on May 13, 2010 18:08:54 GMT -6
a 17 minute last words is ridiculous. one last jab at the MVS's that should not have been allowed.
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Post by Stormyweather on May 13, 2010 18:22:47 GMT -6
I was unware they were even allowed to talk that long.
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Post by Californian on May 13, 2010 18:24:29 GMT -6
a 17 minute last words is ridiculous. one last jab at the MVS's that should not have been allowed. Agreed. Give him one minute and push the plunger.
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Post by Rev. Agave on May 13, 2010 20:17:49 GMT -6
This POS goes down in my book as one of the biggest pu$$ies to to get executed. Look, I understand getting executed would be scary. I'd be scared too, and I'm not expecting him to put on some elaborate macho facade. But Jesus Christ, keep it together and show some dignity. If not for yourself, do it for the witnesses. This asswipe was a bytch until the bitter end. Most school girls would face death with more courage.
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Post by mst3k4evur on May 13, 2010 22:09:49 GMT -6
This POS goes down in my book as one of the biggest pu$$ies to to get executed. Look, I understand getting executed would be scary. I'd be scared too, and I'm not expecting him to put on some elaborate macho facade. But Jesus Christ, keep it together and show some dignity. If not for yourself, do it for the witnesses. This asswipe was a bytch until the bitter end. Most school girls would face death with more courage. The only ones to die like men are the volunteers. "Go ahead kill me, see if I care!"
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Post by moonlight on May 14, 2010 15:03:28 GMT -6
"Prison officials at Southern Ohio Correctional Facility said Beuke, who grew up on West Price Hill, was emotional throughout the 24 hours counting down to his lethal injection." “He’s been crying fairly frequently while he’s been here,’’ said state prison spokeswoman Julie Walburn. About two dozen friends and family members visited the front of his prison cell, two-by-two. He participated in a Catholic mass, and sang while playing on a portable keyboard." "The 6- foot 4-inch Beuke occasionally whimpered while repeating the Hail Mary dozens of times, clasping rosary beads in his right hand." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ohh... poor thing. I really feel very sorry for that sweat heart wimp (deep contempt). Well, some of them eventually sob like crying babies when they know their time for the appointment with the grim reaper arrives. I must admit I enjoy very much reading about heinous despicable murderers who have tears rolled down their cheeks minutes before they're annihilated for good. Its very interesting they allow themselves to terrorize innocent people who just happen to pass their way. But well, when their time comes to pay their debt to society they sob and wimp ;D I think the scene of the condemned thug being emotional minutes before his demise should have been videotaped and televised in all maximum security facilities in the U.S. who house the most dangerous thugs, so that the inmates there will watch it, and realize the fate of those of them who just take a life of someone else. Yea a very good lesson for the punks indeed.
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Post by Californian on May 14, 2010 18:42:36 GMT -6
Ohh... poor thing. I really feel very sorry for that sweat heart wimp (deep contempt). Well, some of them eventually sob like crying babies when they know their time for the appointment with the grim reaper arrives. Agree. Ted Bundy allegedly had to be carried to his appointment with Old Sparky in Florida. I mean, how sweet is that?
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2010 17:56:20 GMT -6
Ohh... poor thing. I really feel very sorry for that sweat heart wimp (deep contempt). Well, some of them eventually sob like crying babies when they know their time for the appointment with the grim reaper arrives. Agree. Ted Bundy allegedly had to be carried to his appointment with Old Sparky in Florida. I mean, how sweet is that? Probably not too sweet if you're one of the unlucky stiffs who had to drag him down the hall.
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Post by Californian on May 20, 2010 15:01:02 GMT -6
Probably not too sweet if you're one of the unlucky stiffs who had to drag him down the hall. Oh, I don't know. Might be a hoot. ;D
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Post by Matt on May 20, 2010 15:19:28 GMT -6
Well done, Ohio. Giving Texas a run for its money.
And I agree this pukeball was given WAY too long to issue a final statement. A minute is plenty long enough, no more.
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