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Post by josephdphillips on Sept 8, 2005 16:31:49 GMT -6
My tip is "Rock and Roll" baby...its go time. This should help open the gates on some others locked up in the long process. This will be the first black woman and the 3rd woman who paid there dues in Texas. Would it be in bad taste to queue up Aretha Franklin's "Respect," while she's being strapped down? R-E-S-P-E-C-T...Take care, T-C-B, oh (Sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me)
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Post by spur on Sept 8, 2005 16:32:39 GMT -6
I wonder if they can play some Lynard Skynard "Free Bird" when they stick her.....
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Post by bryan on Sept 8, 2005 16:33:01 GMT -6
My tip is "Rock and Roll" baby...its go time. This should help open the gates on some others locked up in the long process. This will be the first black woman and the 3rd woman who paid there dues in Texas. Would it be in bad taste to queue up Aretha Franklin's "Respect," while she's being strapped down? R-E-S-P-E-C-T...Take care, T-C-B, oh (Sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me)what do you mean when u say TCB? tri city?
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Post by spur on Sept 8, 2005 16:33:35 GMT -6
Dude..we are too freaky thinking the same s_hit
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Post by josephdphillips on Sept 8, 2005 22:32:42 GMT -6
R-E-S-P-E-C-T...Take care, T-C-B, oh (Sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me) That's just what the lyrics website claims are the words to Otis Redding's "Respect," as performed by Ms. Franklin. I think maybe TCB means "taking care of business."
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2005 3:48:30 GMT -6
I think Ms. Newton will get a stay. The DA admitted that a second weapon was found... So prosecutors manipulated the trial. If that is not a reason to retry her. Don't say it would not have changed anything. A person may only be convicted in a trial in which all evidence authorites found is presented to the jury. So check the gun and present it to the defense and the jury. Analyze if the deadly shot might have been fired out of the second gun and resentence her. Why does a DA hold back information? Because he/she fears not to be able to get the accused convicted. The second gun was contamined, cannot be found or analyzed. Then Ms. Newton has to be accquited immediately and the DA should have a lot of time to think about what she did (in a small cell)...
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Post by bryan on Sept 9, 2005 4:40:08 GMT -6
R-E-S-P-E-C-T...Take care, T-C-B, oh (Sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me) That's just what the lyrics website claims are the words to Otis Redding's "Respect," as performed by Ms. Franklin. I think maybe TCB means "taking care of business." ohhh...i gotcha...tcb means something else
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Post by spur on Sept 9, 2005 5:46:08 GMT -6
I think Ms. Newton will get a stay. The DA admitted that a second weapon was found... So prosecutors manipulated the trial. If that is not a reason to retry her. Don't say it would not have changed anything. A person may only be convicted in a trial in which all evidence authorites found is presented to the jury. So check the gun and present it to the defense and the jury. Analyze if the deadly shot might have been fired out of the second gun and resentence her. Why does a DA hold back information? Because he/she fears not to be able to get the accused convicted. The second gun was contamined, cannot be found or analyzed. Then Ms. Newton has to be accquited immediately and the DA should have a lot of time to think about what she did (in a small cell)... and I think people should be very careful not to eat the mushrooms this next week too.
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Post by josephdphillips on Sept 9, 2005 6:19:36 GMT -6
ohhh...i gotcha...tcb means something else Like what?
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Post by spur on Sept 9, 2005 6:34:54 GMT -6
Dang it, I can't believe they rejected an appeal yesterday.... Thats just not fair! "Wilson says she misspoke during the interview and should have said it was ammunition that was recovered from the crime scene, not another gun. "I made a mistake," she said Wednesday. An appeal by Newton was rejected Wednesday by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Dow said he would take the case to federal court.Ballistics tests conducted this year confirmed a pistol Newton said she hid in a vacant house next to the family's apartment was the gun used in the slayings." "if I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me....."Yea, when im taking a shyt....
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Post by bryan on Sept 9, 2005 13:11:23 GMT -6
ohhh...i gotcha...tcb means something else Like what? tri city bomber, Pharr-San Juan-Alamo but you aint mean that
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Post by Eminey1 on Sept 9, 2005 13:13:25 GMT -6
Still counting down wench, this woman has to pay her debt to those poor babies and her hubby.
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Post by bryan on Sept 10, 2005 9:27:32 GMT -6
Woman's execution remains on schedule
Appeals court says gun argument not new in slaying of Newton's familyFrances Newton, condemned for the 1987 murder of her husband and two young children, was a step closer to execution Friday after the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals dismissed her latest application for writ of habeas corpus, saying she had presented no new evidence to warrant a stay. In a petition filed Tuesday, Newton's Texas Innocence Network attorneys argued that two, possibly three, pistols were recovered the night that Adrian Newton, 23, and the couple's children, Alton, 7, and Farrah, 21 months, were shot to death at their Harris County apartment. If multiple weapons were seized as evidence, they contended, it's possible authorities bungled their processing and that a key element of the prosecution's case — that the pistol Newton hid after the killings was the murder weapon — is false. "Is it plausible to think that the Houston Police Department ballistics lab mixed up the weapons?"attorney David Dow asked Friday. "Well, in view of what we know now — from faulty ballistics evidence in other cases, to dozens of mistakes in DNA analysis, to scores of boxes of lost or missing evidence — I would think that only the most stubborn, naive or disingenuous prosecutor would say with any confidence that Newton is guilty." Newton, who claims she is innocent, is scheduled to die Wednesday for killing her family to gain $100,000 in insurance death benefits. She would be the third woman put to death in Texas since the state resumed executions 23 years ago. Dow and co-counsel Jared Tyler, both University of Houston law professors, buttressed their contention by citing a videotaped news interview in which Assistant District Attorney Roe Wilson said a second pistol had been found, as well as post-trial interviews with two sheriff's investigators that suggested more than one weapon ended up in police custody. Wilson, who has recanted her videotaped statement as incorrect, insisted Friday that police recovered only one pistol, a .25-caliber Saturday night special that Newton dumped miles from the crime scene after the killings. Three ballistics tests have confirmed that semiautomatic as the murder weapon, she said. The defense's multiple-gun theory, she said, is a "smoke screen." In dismissing this week's petition, the defense's fourth application for writ of habeas corpus, appeals judges cited Section 5, Article 11.071 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, which, in essence, prohibits the court from revisiting issues it has considered. "(Newton) has provided two affidavits from her investigators ... ," the court wrote. "She alleges these affidavits are new evidence supporting this new claim. We disagree. We find this is old evidence and old argument in a new form." In late August, the court rejected an earlier second-gun claim noting, "No second gun has been produced." But, the court continued, "Even assuming that 50 guns had been found in Adrian's apartment, it was the .25 Ruger belonging to the applicant's (Newton's) lover that was the murder weapon and that (the) applicant hid." The court also has rejected as inadmissible claims that Newton received inadequate representation in her first trial, that court testimony regarding Newton's future dangerousness was misleading and that the prosecution destroyed and/or contaminated crucial evidence — the dress Newton wore on the night of the murders — while testing its stains. Those issues, the court held, could not be considered because either they were not new or they dealt with the sufficiency of evidence in the trial, a matter that cannot be considered in habeas corpus deliberations. 'Part of our family' Adrian Newton's parents, Tom and Virginia Lewis, have written the pardons board, declaring, "We never wanted to see Frances get executed." "Frances is part of our family," the couple wrote. " ... She and our son were together for seven years, and during that time, we were a big, happy family. We would go on outings to the beach, to the pool, to barbecues and all kinds of fun stuff." Trial testimony revealed that Newton and her husband, a user and seller of drugs, had a rocky marriage. Adrian Newton engaged in numerous extramarital affairs; Frances Newton spent the night before the murders with her lover, whose pistol was used in the crime. In addition to this week's action, defense attorneys have filed petitions on Newton's behalf with the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. District Court-Southern District of Texas and the Texas pardons board. www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3347473
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Post by hazel on Sept 10, 2005 10:46:30 GMT -6
Ive just been reading the website below. Gives information about her trial and documents about the motion of stays etc. I found it good reading so i thought i would share it with you all incase you might want to read it. www.freefrances.org/
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2005 16:18:24 GMT -6
No reprieve for Frances this time I'm thinking. There is no new evidence, the case has dragged on since 1987. There was only one gun, not two and that belonged to her boyfriend. She took out insurance on the family in March, they were killed in April, she tried to collect on the policy two weeks later and was arrested the next day.
More telling - the press isn't making a big deal of this. If they thought they had something they'd be all over the case on principle since most oppose capital punishment. Even considering the hurricane, there's nary a peep from the NY Times or the Wash Post and the networks have ignored it thus far.
She's had one bite of the reprieve apple and unless one of the final appeals courts order a stay she's unlikely to get another. Her best bet may be incompetent counsel since Mock has such a bad reputation, but the actual evidence looks overwhelming.
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Post by sweethonesty on Sept 10, 2005 18:50:10 GMT -6
Frances Newton is scheduled to be executed Sept. 14 for the 1987 shooting deaths of her husband and two children, that she blamed on a drug dealer named Charlie.
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Post by bryan on Sept 10, 2005 18:52:12 GMT -6
Frances Newton is scheduled to be executed Sept. 14 for the 1987 shooting deaths of her husband and two children, that she blamed on a drug dealer named Charlie. so this guy kills her family but she is able to take his name ...i also read somewhere that the murder weapon used was from her boyfriend on the side
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2005 18:47:47 GMT -6
Just a side thought.
One liberal complaint about capital punishment is that it is statistically more likely to be imposed when the victim is white than if the victim(s) is/are black. Supposedly proof of the racist nature of capital punishment.
Texas is about to improve on that statistic even though the critics seem to think she should join O.J. on the golf course looking for the "real killers".
Newton's defenders have to call her innocent since there are no mitigating factors to murdering your family (including two toddlers) for insurance money. Unfortunately for her, there has been absolutely no evidence presented that conflicts with the original prosecution, simply allegations and red herrings now rejected by the court of appeals.
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Post by RED on Sept 11, 2005 20:03:00 GMT -6
Actually, is even worse. Newton's lawyers got a stay to have the state conduct ballistics testing on the gun, which Newton argued would clear her name. The test backfired and actually confirmed the theory presented by the prosecution. Bye-bye. Love, RED Just a side thought. One liberal complaint about capital punishment is that it is statistically more likely to be imposed when the victim is white than if the victim(s) is/are black. Supposedly proof of the racist nature of capital punishment. Texas is about to improve on that statistic even though the critics seem to think she should join O.J. on the golf course looking for the "real killers". Newton's defenders have to call her innocent since there are no mitigating factors to murdering your family (including two toddlers) for insurance money. Unfortunately for her, there has been absolutely no evidence presented that conflicts with the original prosecution, simply allegations and red herrings now rejected by the court of appeals.
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Post by sweethonesty on Sept 11, 2005 21:32:07 GMT -6
September's Line-up Sept. 20 John Spirko Ohio Sept. 22 Michael Lynn Riley Texas Sept. 27 Herman Ashworth Ohio
October's Line-up Oct. 6 Ronald Howard Texas Oct. 20 Luis Ramirez Texas Oct. 25 William Williams Ohio
November's Line-up Nov. 2 Jaime Elizalde Texas Nov. 3 Melvin White Texas
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Post by sweethonesty on Sept 11, 2005 21:38:20 GMT -6
Frances Newton will be executed soon so what is all the fuss about? She is a cold blooded killer who is about to be put down like the previous 990 killers. I have noticed it happening time and time again. Several weeks before their execution date opponents of the death penalty start screaming \"innocent\". Are they for real or what? In the case of Newton opponents claim that not only is Newton innocent but Newton is also \"Black\". A judge and jury convicted Newton of killing her husband and two children for insurance money. Her appeals have all been denied. What sort of woman kills her own flesh and blood for insurance money? Innocent and Black? My A** It is very hard to proclaim her innocence when she admitted that she went to the house with a gun that was, of the same caliber as the one used to murder her family. She also bought insurance polices for them just a few short days before the murder. She is guilty. There was a motive. Money is most times a motive.
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Post by Rev. Agave on Sept 11, 2005 22:22:49 GMT -6
Still counting down wench, this woman has to pay her debt to those poor babies and her hubby. The Potassium Chloride is stong in this one. You have been a wonderful addition to the pro side!
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Post by hazel on Sept 12, 2005 2:41:06 GMT -6
September's Line-up Sept. 20 John Spirko Ohio Sept. 22 Michael Lynn Riley Texas Sept. 27 Herman Ashworth Ohio October's Line-up Oct. 6 Ronald Howard Texas Oct. 20 Luis Ramirez Texas Oct. 25 William Williams Ohio November's Line-up Nov. 2 Jaime Elizalde Texas Nov. 3 Melvin White Texas John Spirko has had his execution date delayed until the 15th November. Even then i dont think he will be executed and i will be surpised if they execute Francis Newton on the 14th. Herman Ashworth set to be executed in Ohio is a volunteer. Must be a while since Ohio executed someone.
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Post by sweethonesty on Sept 12, 2005 10:21:45 GMT -6
September's Line-up Sept. 20 John Spirko Ohio Sept. 22 Michael Lynn Riley Texas Sept. 27 Herman Ashworth Ohio October's Line-up Oct. 6 Ronald Howard Texas Oct. 20 Luis Ramirez Texas Oct. 25 William Williams Ohio November's Line-up Nov. 2 Jaime Elizalde Texas Nov. 3 Melvin White Texas John Spirko has had his execution date delayed until the 15th November. Even then i dont think he will be executed and i will be surpised if they execute Francis Newton on the 14th. Herman Ashworth set to be executed in Ohio is a volunteer. Must be a while since Ohio executed someone. Thank you Hazel
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Post by bryan on Sept 12, 2005 16:37:37 GMT -6
CLEMENCY DENIEDCondemned Texas inmate Frances Newton lost at the parole board and in a federal court Monday as her lawyers tried to head off her scheduled execution later this week. Newton, 40, faces lethal injection Wednesday evening for the slayings of her husband and two children at their Houston apartment 18 years ago. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, in a 7-0 vote, refused to recommend to the governor that her death sentence be commuted to life in prison. The vote came several hours after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to stop the punishment, a decision that sent her lawyers to the U.S. Supreme Court. Newton, who says she's not responsible for the triple slaying, would be the 13th prisoner executed this year in the nation's most active capital punishment state but only the third woman and the first black woman executed in Texas since executions resumed in 1982. Nationally, she'd be the 11th woman put to death since the U.S. Supreme Court in 1976 allowed capital punishment to resume after a decade-long hiatus. On Friday, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state's highest criminal court, rejected a similar appeal that claimed she was innocent, that evidence used at her trial improperly was destroyed, that a weapon linked to the slayings was not the only weapon recovered by police and that she has not been a problem inmate, disputing trial evidence that she was a continuing danger and deserved to die. The parole board in December had recommended a reprieve for the Houston woman. Gov. Rick Perry agreed, blocking her punishment about two hours before she could have been strapped to the death house gurney so additional testing could be conducted on the .25-caliber pistol prosecutors said was used to fatally shoot Newton's husband, Adrian, and their children, Alton, 7, and Farrah, 21 months. In March, the new ballistics tests confirmed the earlier findings. Harris County then rescheduled her execution for Wednesday. Lawyers for Newton, in their latest petition to the parole board, reminded board members of their responsibility "to act as the fail-safe in the American criminal justice system to ensure that mistakes do not occur in the execution of potentially innocent persons." Prosecutors have opposed delaying the punishment and have contested the late appeals. "Basically, it's just a smoke screen," said Roe Wilson, a Harris County assistant district attorney who handles capital appeals. The cheap .25-caliber handgun determined to be the murder weapon, commonly known as a Saturday night special, was found in a bag Newton placed in an abandoned house that belonged to her parents. Newton said she found it in a drawer at home and hid it to keep her husband from getting into trouble. Adrian Newton had a drug history, and the couple was having marital problems. Wilson mentioned the presence of a second gun earlier this summer in an interview with a Dutch television crew. Appeals lawyers said that raised doubts about the validity of tying the murder weapon to Newton and accused prosecutors of improperly withholding evidence. Wilson later said she was mistaken and meant to say that ammunition, not another gun, was recovered by police. The blue dress Newton was wearing had possible gunpowder residue on it. She and her lawyers said the trace of nitrites, however, came from fertilizer rubbed on her dress by her daughter, who stayed during the day with relatives who had a garden while Newton worked at a tax accounting office. Defense lawyers were unable to conduct additional tests because the clothing was contaminated when it was stored unprotected with other evidence, and because the initial testing destroyed that part of the fabric. Three weeks before the deaths, Newton took out $50,000 life insurance policies on herself, her husband and her daughter. She named herself as beneficiary and signed her husband's name. Prosecutors said that was the motive for the slayings. Newton, who was with a cousin when they found the three bodies, believes the real killer is or may be related to a drug dealer known only as "Charlie," who she said was upset with her husband for not repaying a $500 debt. www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8CIVAC8C.html
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Post by aka on Sept 12, 2005 16:41:39 GMT -6
CLEMENCY DENIEDCondemned Texas inmate Frances Newton lost at the parole board and in a federal court Monday as her lawyers tried to head off her scheduled execution later this week. Newton, 40, faces lethal injection Wednesday evening for the slayings of her husband and two children at their Houston apartment 18 years ago. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, in a 7-0 vote, refused to recommend to the governor that her death sentence be commuted to life in prison. The vote came several hours after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to stop the punishment, a decision that sent her lawyers to the U.S. Supreme Court. Newton, who says she's not responsible for the triple slaying, would be the 13th prisoner executed this year in the nation's most active capital punishment state but only the third woman and the first black woman executed in Texas since executions resumed in 1982. Nationally, she'd be the 11th woman put to death since the U.S. Supreme Court in 1976 allowed capital punishment to resume after a decade-long hiatus. On Friday, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state's highest criminal court, rejected a similar appeal that claimed she was innocent, that evidence used at her trial improperly was destroyed, that a weapon linked to the slayings was not the only weapon recovered by police and that she has not been a problem inmate, disputing trial evidence that she was a continuing danger and deserved to die. The parole board in December had recommended a reprieve for the Houston woman. Gov. Rick Perry agreed, blocking her punishment about two hours before she could have been strapped to the death house gurney so additional testing could be conducted on the .25-caliber pistol prosecutors said was used to fatally shoot Newton's husband, Adrian, and their children, Alton, 7, and Farrah, 21 months. In March, the new ballistics tests confirmed the earlier findings. Harris County then rescheduled her execution for Wednesday. Lawyers for Newton, in their latest petition to the parole board, reminded board members of their responsibility "to act as the fail-safe in the American criminal justice system to ensure that mistakes do not occur in the execution of potentially innocent persons." Prosecutors have opposed delaying the punishment and have contested the late appeals. "Basically, it's just a smoke screen," said Roe Wilson, a Harris County assistant district attorney who handles capital appeals. The cheap .25-caliber handgun determined to be the murder weapon, commonly known as a Saturday night special, was found in a bag Newton placed in an abandoned house that belonged to her parents. Newton said she found it in a drawer at home and hid it to keep her husband from getting into trouble. Adrian Newton had a drug history, and the couple was having marital problems. Wilson mentioned the presence of a second gun earlier this summer in an interview with a Dutch television crew. Appeals lawyers said that raised doubts about the validity of tying the murder weapon to Newton and accused prosecutors of improperly withholding evidence. Wilson later said she was mistaken and meant to say that ammunition, not another gun, was recovered by police. The blue dress Newton was wearing had possible gunpowder residue on it. She and her lawyers said the trace of nitrites, however, came from fertilizer rubbed on her dress by her daughter, who stayed during the day with relatives who had a garden while Newton worked at a tax accounting office. Defense lawyers were unable to conduct additional tests because the clothing was contaminated when it was stored unprotected with other evidence, and because the initial testing destroyed that part of the fabric. Three weeks before the deaths, Newton took out $50,000 life insurance policies on herself, her husband and her daughter. She named herself as beneficiary and signed her husband's name. Prosecutors said that was the motive for the slayings. Newton, who was with a cousin when they found the three bodies, believes the real killer is or may be related to a drug dealer known only as "Charlie," who she said was upset with her husband for not repaying a $500 debt. www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8CIVAC8C.html Yup. She is on her way out. I would really be interested in knowing what her last words are. Given the tendency of murderers confessing on the gurney, I wonder if she is going to do so. Oooh. Do you think the SC is going to split 4-4 on this? What is going to happen then?
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Post by bryan on Sept 12, 2005 16:43:43 GMT -6
CLEMENCY DENIEDCondemned Texas inmate Frances Newton lost at the parole board and in a federal court Monday as her lawyers tried to head off her scheduled execution later this week. Newton, 40, faces lethal injection Wednesday evening for the slayings of her husband and two children at their Houston apartment 18 years ago. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, in a 7-0 vote, refused to recommend to the governor that her death sentence be commuted to life in prison. The vote came several hours after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to stop the punishment, a decision that sent her lawyers to the U.S. Supreme Court. Newton, who says she's not responsible for the triple slaying, would be the 13th prisoner executed this year in the nation's most active capital punishment state but only the third woman and the first black woman executed in Texas since executions resumed in 1982. Nationally, she'd be the 11th woman put to death since the U.S. Supreme Court in 1976 allowed capital punishment to resume after a decade-long hiatus. On Friday, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state's highest criminal court, rejected a similar appeal that claimed she was innocent, that evidence used at her trial improperly was destroyed, that a weapon linked to the slayings was not the only weapon recovered by police and that she has not been a problem inmate, disputing trial evidence that she was a continuing danger and deserved to die. The parole board in December had recommended a reprieve for the Houston woman. Gov. Rick Perry agreed, blocking her punishment about two hours before she could have been strapped to the death house gurney so additional testing could be conducted on the .25-caliber pistol prosecutors said was used to fatally shoot Newton's husband, Adrian, and their children, Alton, 7, and Farrah, 21 months. In March, the new ballistics tests confirmed the earlier findings. Harris County then rescheduled her execution for Wednesday. Lawyers for Newton, in their latest petition to the parole board, reminded board members of their responsibility "to act as the fail-safe in the American criminal justice system to ensure that mistakes do not occur in the execution of potentially innocent persons." Prosecutors have opposed delaying the punishment and have contested the late appeals. "Basically, it's just a smoke screen," said Roe Wilson, a Harris County assistant district attorney who handles capital appeals. The cheap .25-caliber handgun determined to be the murder weapon, commonly known as a Saturday night special, was found in a bag Newton placed in an abandoned house that belonged to her parents. Newton said she found it in a drawer at home and hid it to keep her husband from getting into trouble. Adrian Newton had a drug history, and the couple was having marital problems. Wilson mentioned the presence of a second gun earlier this summer in an interview with a Dutch television crew. Appeals lawyers said that raised doubts about the validity of tying the murder weapon to Newton and accused prosecutors of improperly withholding evidence. Wilson later said she was mistaken and meant to say that ammunition, not another gun, was recovered by police. The blue dress Newton was wearing had possible gunpowder residue on it. She and her lawyers said the trace of nitrites, however, came from fertilizer rubbed on her dress by her daughter, who stayed during the day with relatives who had a garden while Newton worked at a tax accounting office. Defense lawyers were unable to conduct additional tests because the clothing was contaminated when it was stored unprotected with other evidence, and because the initial testing destroyed that part of the fabric. Three weeks before the deaths, Newton took out $50,000 life insurance policies on herself, her husband and her daughter. She named herself as beneficiary and signed her husband's name. Prosecutors said that was the motive for the slayings. Newton, who was with a cousin when they found the three bodies, believes the real killer is or may be related to a drug dealer known only as "Charlie," who she said was upset with her husband for not repaying a $500 debt. www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8CIVAC8C.html Yup. She is on her way out. I would really be interested in knowing what her last words are. Given the tendency of murderers confessing on the gurney, I wonder if she is going to do so. Oooh. Do you think the SC is going to split 4-4 on this? What is going to happen then? na, i think shes done, i can only hope so for a BABY KILLER
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Post by aka on Sept 12, 2005 16:50:30 GMT -6
Well, hypothetically, what happens if, for some reason like right now, the SC has only 8 justices and they are split on an execution. Are they locked up without food and water till they reach a majority opinion? Ps: I am assuming there are 8 people on the SC since O'Connor is staying on till October (right?) or at least till her replacement is confirmed?
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Post by josephdphillips on Sept 12, 2005 16:56:59 GMT -6
Pancuronium bromide....check....
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