mst3k4evur
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Ameeerrrrrricaaa, F**k Yah!
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Post by mst3k4evur on May 20, 2010 15:57:26 GMT -6
Execution warrant signed for Melbert Ray Ford By Bill Rankin The Atlanta Journal-Constitution An execution warrant has been signed for condemned killer Melbert Ray Ford Jr., who is now scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection on June 9 at 7 p.m. Ford sits on death row for the 1986 killings of his former girlfriend, Martha Matich, and her 11-year-old niece, Lisa Chapman, during a grocery store robbery in Newton County. Ford had been scheduled to be executed in February, but the state Board of Pardons and Paroles granted him a 90-day stay because the five-member parole board, which hears clemency petitions from death-row inmates, did not have all its members. Last week, Gov. Sonny Perdue appointed state Juvenile Justice Commissioner Albert Murray and state Rep. Terry Barnard (R-Glenville) to the board, giving the board its full five-member contingent. www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/execution-warrant-signed-for-531948.html
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Post by zd3925 on May 21, 2010 8:17:37 GMT -6
Good News.
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forgesfire
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The masses of humanity have always had to suffer
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Post by forgesfire on May 22, 2010 15:21:15 GMT -6
This guy really deserves it. One of his two victims was found shot in the head having convulsions sitting on a bucket in a gas-station bathroom. Horrible and sick! She later died
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Post by spinaltap on Jun 9, 2010 1:34:17 GMT -6
Clock is ticking for this one
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Post by Matt on Jun 9, 2010 15:48:02 GMT -6
SCOTUS apparently reviewing it right now.
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Post by Californian on Jun 9, 2010 16:26:53 GMT -6
U.S. Supreme Court considering stay of execution for Ga. man
Melbert Ray Ford's attorney filed a motion Wednesday afternoon urging the high court to grant a last-minute reprieve. In a unanimous decision, the Georgia Supreme Court rejected a similar request earlier in the day.
Ford, 49, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson.
He was convicted in the murders of Martha Chapman Matich and her 11-year-old niece, Lisa Chapman, at a Newton County grocery store in 1986.
In their state level appeal, Ford’s lawyers questioned the Georgia Supreme Court’s review of his sentence by comparing it to other cases. The lawyers wrote in filings that there had been more heinous murders that did not result in a death sentence. Ford’s lawyers also argued it would be “cruel and unusual punishment” to execute him so long after the crime.
According to testimony, Ford had harassed Matich for weeks after they broke up and two weeks before the March 6, 1986, shooting he told a friend he was going to rob the store where she worked and he "was going to blow her ... brains out.”
But he needed a ride and was having trouble finding one. He told one friend “there wasn't anybody crazy around here anymore.”
Roger Turner, a 19-year-old out of a job and almost out of money, agreed to drive Ford to the store after several drinks and a promise of $8,000.
The two got to the store after closing, so Ford got inside by shooting away the lower half of the locked and barred glass door.
Turner, who was waiting in the car, later told police he heard screams and gunshots moments before Ford ran from the store with a bag of money.
Responding to an alarm, Newton County deputies found Matich shot three times and lying dead behind the counter. The girl was in the bathroom, still alive though shot in the head; she died later.
Ford, 25 at the time, and Turner were arrested the next day, and Turner confessed. Turner was sentenced to 20 years in prison after he pleaded guilty and he was paroled in 1991.
In the appeal before the Georgia Supreme Court, Ford’s attorneys referred to several other murder cases that led to life sentences to make their point that Ford's was too severe.
“Many cases that are as or more aggravated than Mr. Ford’s have resulted in lesser sentences -- either because the jury or judge rejected a death sentence or because the state opted not to seek one,” the attorneys wrote.
The attorneys said the examples were not offered to "diminish" the deaths of Matich and her niece, but to show that the case was not properly compared to others.
The Attorney General responded that if the court revisited the sentence, it would have to reopen the case or rewrite state law.
“Either move would undermine the finality of a judgment of conviction to the point of non-existence,” the state’s lawyers wrote in response.
Ford will spend his final hours with friends and relatives before he is taken in late afternoon for his final meal -- fried fish and shrimp, a baked potato, salad, boiled corn, ice cream, cheesecake and soda.
If he is executed, Ford will be the 47th to die in Georgia since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1973, the 24th by lethal injection.
There are 103 people, including Ford, on Death Row at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison near Jackson, about 50 miles south of Atlanta.
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Post by Rev. Agave on Jun 9, 2010 19:59:16 GMT -6
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Post by Charlene on Jun 9, 2010 20:33:33 GMT -6
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5igXfqGonSLFvkDzm_G47hMEs-qdQD9G82NC80Georgia man convicted of killing 2 people executed JACKSON, Ga. — Authorities say a Georgia man convicted of the 1986 shooting deaths of his ex-girlfriend and her 11-year-old niece has been executed. Melbert Ray Ford, 49, died by lethal injection at the state prison in Jackson, the Georgia Department of Corrections said Wednesday. Department spokeswoman Kristen Stancil says the time of death was 7:27 p.m. The U.S. Supreme Court had early Wednesday denied a last motion by Ford's lawyer to delay the execution. The Georgia Supreme Court had previously voted unanimously to deny a similar appeal. Prosecutors say Ford was seeking revenge when he killed Martha Chapman Matich and her niece Lisa Chapman. They say Ford began harassing her with phone calls after the couple broke up and also told friends he wanted to kill her.
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Post by spinaltap on Jun 9, 2010 21:08:52 GMT -6
say bye
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Post by Californian on Jun 9, 2010 21:38:56 GMT -6
Hasta la vista, creep.
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Post by The Tipsy Broker on Jun 10, 2010 0:42:22 GMT -6
Good Riddance
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2010 2:02:50 GMT -6
fords are crap,I bet the judge was a holden driver. ;D
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Post by zd3925 on Jun 10, 2010 8:15:09 GMT -6
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5igXfqGonSLFvkDzm_G47hMEs-qdQD9G82NC80Georgia man convicted of killing 2 people executed JACKSON, Ga. — Authorities say a Georgia man convicted of the 1986 shooting deaths of his ex-girlfriend and her 11-year-old niece has been executed. Melbert Ray Ford, 49, died by lethal injection at the state prison in Jackson, the Georgia Department of Corrections said Wednesday. Department spokeswoman Kristen Stancil says the time of death was 7:27 p.m. The U.S. Supreme Court had early Wednesday denied a last motion by Ford's lawyer to delay the execution. The Georgia Supreme Court had previously voted unanimously to deny a similar appeal. Prosecutors say Ford was seeking revenge when he killed Martha Chapman Matich and her niece Lisa Chapman. They say Ford began harassing her with phone calls after the couple broke up and also told friends he wanted to kill her. Adios scumbag
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Post by Breka on Jun 10, 2010 13:09:22 GMT -6
praying for the victims and relatives they will hopefully find eternal peace now
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Post by kingsindanger on Jun 10, 2010 21:51:35 GMT -6
I got an execution and a stanley cup for my birthday. How do we top that?
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