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Post by gunside on Oct 14, 2005 22:29:04 GMT -6
April 5, 2005 South Carolina Melissa "Missi" McLauchlin, 25 Joseph Gardner stayed A man who had been scheduled to die on April 8 for the kidnapping and murder of a Charleston woman 12 years ago, has been granted a stay of execution so he can pursue federal appeals. The stay for Joseph Gardner was granted U.S. District Judge Henry Herlong,
Does anyone have any information of why this judge stayed this execution ?? ( I woud be interested in hearing what reasons ) [/b] ( If there was (EVER) a person whom the death peanalty was designed for ) this fellow ranks #1 I CANNOT BELIEVE A STAY WAS GRANTED)!! THIS JUDGE NEEDS TO (( GO ))
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Post by sweethonesty on Oct 15, 2005 18:33:21 GMT -6
(Scroll Down to the second case on the site) www.prodeathpenalty.com/Pending/05/apr05.htmA man who had been scheduled to die on April 8 for the kidnapping and murder of a Charleston woman 12 years ago, has been granted a stay of execution so he can pursue federal appeals. The stay for Joseph Gardner was granted U.S. District Judge Henry Herlong, according to the South Carolina attorney general's office. Gardner was convicted of the Dec. 30, 1992, killing of Melissa "Missi" McLauchlin, who was raped, tortured, shot five times in the face and left to die by the side of a road in Summerville. At the time of the shooting, police said Gardner and some other men made a New Year's resolution to rape and kill a white woman as retribution for 400 years of oppression of black people. Gardner, who was later arrested in Philadelphia, was the trigger man. Gardner was sentenced to death in December 1995 by a jury of 10 whites and two blacks. In March 1999, the U.S. Supreme Court turned aside without comment an appeal by Gardner. Gardner said his trial should have been moved elsewhere because of pretrial publicity. Missy McLauchlin, 25, was a native of Wixom, Michigan, living with her fiancé’s family in North Charleston, South Carolina. On the night she died, she had an argument with her fiancé at a nightclub. She stormed out of the club and began to walk home. Police spotted her, obviously drunk, and gave her a ride home, but she quickly set out on foot for another club. Three black men, Matthew Mack, Matthew Williams, and Joseph Gardner pulled up alongside in a car and started a conversation. They offered her drugs if she would come back to their trailer and have sex with them. Missi McLauchlin, who had a history of drug problems, foolishly accepted their offer. The men had spent most of the day drinking and watching pornographic videos of black men having sex with white women. At one point Mack exploded in anger at his white girlfriend, saying he wanted to “stab her,” but that “it ain’t got to be her, any white” would do. Williams said he wanted to have sex with a white woman. Two hours later, the group watched a television news account of the biggest stories of 1992. When the videotaped beating and arrest of Rodney King came on the air, the third man, Gardner, spoke of “four hundred years of oppression,” and made a “New Ye ar’s resolution” to “kill a white *bi+ch*.” It was in this state of mind that the four returned to the trailer where the three blacks lived. The men offered Missi McLaughlin no drugs, but she willingly had sex with them—at first. She began to resist, especially when the men wanted to sodomize her, and soon the men were raping her. They put out the word within the trailer park that they had “captured a white woman,” and three other blacks arrived and raped her. Two black women, girlfriends of some of the rapists, were present in another room of the trailer, but did nothing to stop the attack. After they had enough, the men decided to get rid of the evidence—including Missi McLauchlin. They soaked her in bleach and hydrogen peroxide, and scrubbed her under the shower with a nylon brush, in the hope of ridding her skin of sperm or other evidence that could be linked to them. They forced her to scrub out her vagina with the same chemicals. They also talked openly of killing her. The men handcuffed her, blindfolded her, and put a heavy coat over her head. They then took her to a car, and forced her down onto the floorboards in the back. After they had driven for some time, she managed to get out of the handcuffs and began to struggle. Joseph Gardner, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, reached over the seat, held back her head, and shot her twice in the face. The driver pulled over 14 miles outside Charleston, where Gardner shot her three more times in the face and once in the arm. The men dumped her on the side of the road, drove back to Charleston, and went nightclubbing. A passing driver found Missi McLauchlin, miraculously alive, but she died before the ambulance arrived. It took police four days to identify the body, and a day later they located the trailer where Missi McLaughlin was raped. By January 9, 1993, police had arrested seven people including two of the ringleaders—Matthew Mack and Matthew Williams—and two women, Edna Williams and Indira Simmons, who were charged with being accessories to murder and sexual assault. Three of the rapists were sailors stationed at nearby Charleston Naval Base. The only suspect not in custody was the triggerman, Joseph Gardner, who had carried out his New Year’s resolution. Gardner, who was AWOL from the Navy, eluded police for nearly two years, and might never have been caught had the FBI not put him on the “ten most wanted” list. He was living in Philadelphia when someone saw his picture in the post office and tipped off the police. He was arrested on October 20, 1994, and is now on death row. Police suspected a racial motivation from the start, since they found a “crudely written racial diatribe” in the trailer, complete with racial epithets about white oppression, which claimed blacks were “justified in seeking revenge.”
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Post by Tozzie on Oct 15, 2005 18:55:01 GMT -6
April 5, 2005 South Carolina Melissa "Missi" McLauchlin, 25 Joseph Gardner stayed A man who had been scheduled to die on April 8 for the kidnapping and murder of a Charleston woman 12 years ago, has been granted a stay of execution so he can pursue federal appeals. The stay for Joseph Gardner was granted U.S. District Judge Henry Herlong, Does anyone have any information of why this judge stayed this execution ?? ( I woud be interested in hearing what reasons ) [/b] ( If there was (EVER) a person whom the death peanalty was designed for ) this fellow ranks #1 I CANNOT BELIEVE A STAY WAS GRANTED)!! THIS JUDGE NEEDS TO (( GO )) [/quote] It is very unfortunate that the execution was stayed, however since the states attorney didn't appeal or didn't win an appeal it is likely that this vile creature had not exhausted all his appeals and of course he has more rights than the victim so he is still stealing oxygen from society.
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