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Post by unkelremus on Jun 25, 2011 9:02:48 GMT -6
The Arizona Supreme Court denied Flagstaff Death Row inmate Richard "Ricky" Bible, 49, a stay to his execution scheduled for Thursday. According to an order filed Friday, the court decided not to accept jurisdiction of Bible's request to have the Arizona Department of Corrections turn over to him where or when the drugs that will be used to execute him were obtained. As a result, the court denied Bible's motion to stay his execution. Bible had tried to argue that he is entitled to know what chemicals will be used, where they were obtained, the strength of the dosage that will be administered, and the date the chemicals were manufactured. In a response to the defense, the Arizona Attorney General argued that nothing in the Arizona Constitution requires the Department of Corrections to disclose the information Bible seeks. "Regardless, ADS has publicly disclosed its lethal injection protocol," stated the state's response. "The protocol clearly states the drugs to be administered, the amounts of each chemical, and the required qualifications of individuals tasked with administering the chemicals." Bible was convicted after a six-week trial of kidnapping, molesting and brutally beating to death 9-year-old Jennifer Wilson, who was vacationing in Flagstaff with her parents when she went missing on June 6, 1988. Wilson's naked, bound body was found June 25, 1988, by hikers on Sheep Hill, 19 days after she went missing while riding her bicycle on a dirt road in Flagstaff. She died from blunt force trauma to the head. Bible has maintained his innocence since his arrest in 1988. On Tuesday, Bible submitted a request to stay his execution with the U.S. Supreme Court. In his request, he argued that Arizona denied him the right to test DNA samples that could exonerate him. And by doing so, the state also denied him a guaranteed constitutional right to properly defend himself from being put to death. The state attorney general's office has countered that the state acted appropriately because the DNA evidence wouldn't exonerate Bible. Additionally, it said, other evidence submitted in the case overwhelmingly showed Bible's guilt, including blood on Bible's shirt that DNA tests at the time linked to that of young Jennifer. If the U.S. Supreme Court doesn't decide in Bible's favor, one of Bible's last remaining attempts to be spared being put to death Thursday will be a hearing Monday in Phoenix in front of the state's Board of Executive Clemency. The state also is opposing any reprieve or commutation of Bible's sentence at that hearing. www.arizonadailysun.comHell has a slot open for this POS...
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Post by wild1 on Jun 28, 2011 8:36:18 GMT -6
Any new updates here?
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Post by unkelremus on Jun 30, 2011 5:49:24 GMT -6
June 29, 2011 Bible on last appeal . Courtesy photo Richard Bible ...An appeals court has refused to delay the execution of Richard Bible, 49, scheduled to die by lethal injection Thursday. In a ruling Tuesday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco declined Bible's motion to delay his execution for DNA testing of hairs used against him at trial. Bible was convicted of kidnapping, molesting and murdering 9-year-old Jennifer Wilson of Yuma while she was on vacation with her family in Flagstaff in June 1988. Arizona's clemency board also declined to recommend delaying Bible's execution or lessening his sentence to life in prison at a hearing Monday, calling him "the worst of the worst." Bible has just one more chance to delay his execution -- a challenge over the DNA issue at the U.S. Supreme Court. www.arizonadailysun.com
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Post by redd on Jun 30, 2011 12:43:09 GMT -6
Arizona executes man who killed girl 23 years ago by Michael Kiefer - Jun. 30, 2011 11:30 AM The Arizona Republic Richard Lynn Bible died by lethal injection Thursday in Florence for the 1988 murder of a girl in Flagstaff. Bible, 49, died at the state prison after being on death row for more than two decades. Twenty-three years after 9-year-old Jennifer Wilson was brutally raped and murdered and left on a hilltop in Flagstaff, the man convicted of killing her ran out of appeals. slideshow Arizona's death row • May 25: Donald Beaty executed Bible is the 90th inmate Arizona has executed since 1910, and the 25th to die by injection. Bible had always maintained his innocence and in recent months has claimed that a DNA analysis of hairs found on Jennifer's body and clothing would exonerate him. On Wednesday, his last-ditch appeals were denied by the U.S. Supreme Court and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Ironically, Bible's trial in 1990 was the first Arizona case to use what was then brand-new DNA technology. A newspaper article at the time theorized that someday DNA evidence could become a regular part of courtroom arguments, although Bible's appellant lawyers tried to denounce it as junk science. It was a case that played out dramatically in the press over two years: a convicted sex offender snatched a little girl from her bicycle, beat her to death, then hid her body. In June 1988, Jennifer Wilson was on vacation from Yuma with her family. They had transported their horses up to Flagstaff to do some riding in the cool mountain air, and rather than ride in the family vehicle, Jennifer asked if she could ride her bike the last few miles to the ranch where they intended to saddle up. She never got there. When her mother drove back down the road looking for her, all she found was Jennifer's bicycle. Bible, then 26 and a Flagstaff local, was arrested seven hours later, based partially on a description Jennifer's mother had given to police of a truck she had seen drive by about the time Jennifer disappeared. Jennifer's body was not found for 19 days, even though searchers had already combed the area with cadaver dogs, helicopters and legions of law-enforcement officers. Circumstantial evidence linked Bible to the murder. And blood spatter on Bible's shirt proved to be Jennifer's after the DNA was typed. Bible was convicted in April 1990 of first-degree murder, kidnapping and child molestation. Two months later, he was sentenced to death. Little is known about Bible's early life. At his sentencing, his family testified that he was a hyperactive child but otherwise acted appropriately around women and children. They said they had no concerns leaving him alone to watch kids. But he had a long history of substance abuse, ranging from sniffing glue as a boy to overusing alcohol, cocaine and amphetamines as an adult. Mental-health professionals quoted in court documents said substance abuse brought out his antisocial tendencies. In 1981, when he was 19, Bible was drinking on Sheep Hill in Flagstaff with his 17-year-old female cousin and they talked about a trip they planned to Sedona for the next day. All of a sudden, Bible tied her up, cut off her clothes with a knife and sexually assaulted her in the back of his pickup truck. He went to prison for six years, and while there, according to court testimony, he told a counselor that he would never again make the mistake of letting a victim testify against him. He may have kept his promise. Bible was out of prison a year when Jennifer Wilson was murdered. A day before, he had stolen a truck from a county impound lot near Sheep Hill. He never confessed the details, but a jailhouse informant told authorities that Bible said that while he was high on methamphetamine, Bible used the truck to run Jennifer off the road and then told her he would take her to get medical help. Nearly three weeks later, hikers found some of her clothing on Sheep Hill and called police. Searchers found her bound and naked body covered with branches and litter, within yards of where searchers had passed in the days when she first disappeared. She had died of blunt-force blows to her head. Loose rubber bands, a cut cigar and a couple of airline-size vodka bottles matched items found in the truck Bible had stolen. Hairs found at the scene were deemed to be similar to Bible's. Evidence technicians matched fibers. And then there was Jennifer's blood on Bible's shirt. The jury found Bible guilty. Read more: www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/06/30/20110630arizona-execution-richard-lynn-bible.html#ixzz1QmoNuTvg
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Post by unkelremus on Jun 30, 2011 14:01:59 GMT -6
Richard Bible, convicted in the murder of 9 year old Jennifer Wilson of Yuma, has been put to death in Florence, Arizona. KSWT News 13's Jennifer Jones was one of only 5 journalists from across the country selected to witness his execution. 17 members of the Wilson family were also present during the execution, including her parents and two brothers. Bible had been allowed 5 witnesses from his family and friends, but chose to only have 2 of his attorneys present. Jennifer Jones tells us one of Wilson's brothers cried throughout the procedure, which began at 11:02 AM. Wilson's other brother embraced his father, who held hands with Wilson's mother. According to Jennifer Jones, Bible seemed frightened when he was brought into the death chamber, and swallowed repeatedly throughout his final words, which were "Thank you to my family and my lawyers. I love you all. Everything's ok." Once the injection was administered, Bible continued to swallow hard, and his right arm twitched and moved several times before he was pronounced dead. After Bible died, Jennifer Wilson's father addressed the media, thanking everyone for their support, and thanking the Arizona department of corrections, saying he felt justice had finally been served. WWW.KWST.COM
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Post by wild1 on Jun 30, 2011 16:23:46 GMT -6
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2011 16:26:26 GMT -6
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Post by Stormyweather on Jun 30, 2011 16:34:14 GMT -6
Good!
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Post by Californian on Jun 30, 2011 17:08:37 GMT -6
Hasta la vista, creep.
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Post by Rev. Agave on Jun 30, 2011 17:17:59 GMT -6
He's been Bible banged!
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Post by Rev. Agave on Jun 30, 2011 17:20:26 GMT -6
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Post by whitediamonds on Jun 30, 2011 18:12:14 GMT -6
R.I.H
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Post by kingsindanger on Jun 30, 2011 22:52:38 GMT -6
So he had her blood on his shirt but he must be innocent, right? Really? He got what he deserved.
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Post by rayozz on Jul 1, 2011 2:18:40 GMT -6
Strange last meal request. Always find them interesting, as I often wonder what I would choose. Can imagine not selecting anything due to the situation, but if you actually make a choice; then why sausages. I guess after 20+ years on death row and prison food, simple is good.
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Post by The Tipsy Broker on Jul 1, 2011 2:45:58 GMT -6
One bible they will be reading in hell
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Post by zd3925 on Jul 1, 2011 8:24:22 GMT -6
Another turd flushed.
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Post by Stormyweather on Jul 1, 2011 9:33:12 GMT -6
So he had her blood on his shirt but he must be innocent, right? Really? He got what he deserved. Maybe someone planted it there? (sarcasm)
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Post by moretoasts on Jul 1, 2011 11:59:24 GMT -6
Richard Lynn Bible died by lethal injection Thursday in Florence for the 1988 murder of a girl in Flagstaff. So funny this barbarism is carried out in a such named city. Florence, where Renaissance humanism and modern civilization has born.
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Post by Rev. Agave on Jul 1, 2011 12:39:01 GMT -6
Richard Lynn Bible died by lethal injection Thursday in Florence for the 1988 murder of a girl in Flagstaff. So funny this barbarism is carried out in a such named city. Florence, where Renaissance humanism and modern civilization has born. Interestingly, the modern liberals in Florence back then executed this conservative: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girolamo_SavonarolaGirolamo Savonarola (Ferrara, 21 September 1452 – 23 May 1498, Florence) was an Italian Dominican friar, Scholastic, and an influential contributor to the politics of Florence from 1494 until his execution in 1498. He was known for his book burning, destruction of what he considered immoral art, and his perception of what he thought the Renaissance—which began in his Florence and was at its beginning—ought to become. He vehemently preached against the moral corruption of much of the clergy at the time, and his main opponent was Rodrigo Borgia, who was Pope Alexander VI from 1492, through to Savonarola's death, in 1498.. . . On May 13, 1497, Savonarola was excommunicated by Pope Alexander VI, and in 1498, Alexander demanded his arrest and execution. On April 8, a crowd attacked the Convent of San Marco. In the ensuing struggle, several of Savonarola’s guards and religious supporters were killed. Savonarola surrendered along with Fra Domenico da Pescia and Fra Silvestro, his two closest associates. Savonarola was charged with heresy, uttering prophecies, sedition, and other crimes, called religious errors by the Borgia pope.
During the next few weeks all three were tortured on the rack, the torturers sparing only Savonarola’s right arm in order that he might be able to sign his confession. All three signed confessions, Savonarola doing so sometime before May 8. On that day he completed a written meditation on the Miserere mei, Psalm 50, entitled Infelix ego, in which he pleaded with God for mercy for his physical weakness in confessing to crimes he believed he did not commit. On the day of his execution, May 23, 1498, he was still working on another meditation, this one on Psalm 31, entitled Tristitia obsedit me.[4]
On the day of his execution he was taken out to the Piazza della Signoria along with Fra Silvestro and Fra Domenico da Pescia. The three were ritually stripped of their clerical vestments, degraded as "heretics and schismatics", and given over to the secular authorities to be burned. The three were hanged in chains from a single cross and an enormous fire was lit beneath them. They were thereby executed in the same place where the "Bonfire of the Vanities" had been lit, and in the same manner that Savonarola had condemned other criminals himself during his own reign in Florence. Jacopo Nardi, who recorded the incident in his Istorie della città di Firenze, wrote that his executioner lit the flame exclaiming, “The one who wanted to burn me is now himself put to the flames.” Luca Landucci, who was present, wrote in his diary that the burning took several hours, and that the remains were several times broken apart and mixed with brushwood so that not the slightest piece could be later recovered, as the ecclesiastical authorities did not want Savonarola’s followers to have any relics for a future generation of the rigorist preacher they considered a saint. The ashes of the three were afterwards thrown in the Arno beside the Ponte Vecchio.
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Post by oslooskar on Jul 1, 2011 13:09:23 GMT -6
Bible ate a last meal of sausage and eggs with hash brown potatoes. GOOD GRIEF! After a meal like that he was probably already dead when they strapped him to the gurney.
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Post by kingsindanger on Jul 1, 2011 23:20:12 GMT -6
So he had her blood on his shirt but he must be innocent, right? Really? He got what he deserved. Maybe someone planted it there? (sarcasm) Maybe...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2011 2:43:45 GMT -6
Maybe someone planted it there? (sarcasm) Maybe... Dont you understand they are all innocent-we are all just murdering barbarians that lust for blood..
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2011 19:17:47 GMT -6
Bible ate a last meal of sausage and eggs with hash brown potatoes. GOOD GRIEF! After a meal like that he was probably already dead when they strapped him to the gurney. :Dhow would you like to be executed,LI or the chair, no,I will have the jail sausages & eggs
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