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Post by Stormyweather on Jul 18, 2012 18:52:59 GMT -6
Texas executes its 1st inmate using single drugHUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A 33-year-old Texas man convicted of carjacking and fatally shooting a suburban Dallas stockbroker was put to death Wednesday, becoming the first prisoner in the nation's most active capital punishment state to be executed with a single lethal drug. Texas Department of Criminal Justice officials announced last week they were modifying the three-drug execution procedure used since 1982 because the state's supply of one of the drugs — the muscle relaxant pancuronium bromide — has expired. Yokamon Hearn was executed Wednesday evening using a single dose of the sedative pentobarbital, which had been part of the three-drug mixture since last year. Ohio, Arizona, Idaho and Washington have already adopted a single-drug procedure, and this week Georgia said it would do so, too. Hearn showed no apparent unusual reaction to the drug as his execution began. He was pronounced dead at 6:37 p.m. CDT, about 25 minutes after the lethal dose began flowing. Asked by the warden if he wanted to make a statement, he said: "I'd like to tell my family that I love y'all and I wish y'all well. I'm ready." Hearn was condemned for the March 1998 slaying of 23-year-old Frank Meziere. About 3½ hours before Hearn's punishment, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected appeals to halt it. None of the appeals addressed the change in the state's execution drug policy. Evidence showed Meziere, of Plano, was cleaning his black convertible Mustang at a self-service car wash in Dallas when Hearn, then 19, and his friends approached. They forced Meziere at gunpoint into his own car and drove him to an industrial area in a south Dallas neighborhood, where he was shot 10 times in the head. Hearn, known to his friends as "Yogi," already had a lengthy record that included burglary, robbery, assault, sexual assault and weapons possession. In one appeal, Hearn's lawyers argued that his mother drank alcohol when she was pregnant, stunting his neurological development and leaving him with mental impairments that disqualify him from execution under earlier Supreme Court rulings. Testing shows Hearn's IQ is too high for him to be considered mentally impaired. In another, his appeals lawyers claimed the trial attorneys who handled his initial appeals failed to investigate his background and uncover evidence of his alleged mental impairment and troubled childhood. Before the Supreme Court issued brief one-paragraph rulings rejecting his two appeals, Richard Burr, one of Hearn's lawyers, had acknowledged "a degree of hope, but still, it'll be tough." State attorneys contested the appeals, arguing that information about Hearn's background and upbringing had been "thoroughly investigated and addressed at trial" and that the evidence "does not substantiate any scenario other than that of Hearn's guilt." Georgette Oden, an assistant Texas attorney general, argued Hearn's latest appeal was improperly filed this week by circumventing lower courts and that it should have been filed years ago. Hearn declined to speak with reporters in the weeks leading up to his execution. In 2004, he avoided the death chamber when a federal court agreed his mental impairment claims should be reviewed and halted his execution less than an hour before its scheduled time. Jason January, the former Dallas County assistant district attorney who prosecuted Hearn for capital murder, said to stop the punishment because of fetal alcohol syndrome "would be a free pass for anyone whose parents drank." "No question he had a tough background, but a lot of people have tough backgrounds and work their way out and don't fill someone's head with 10 bullets," he said. One of Hearn's accomplices received life in prison. Two others got 10-year sentences. Hearn became the sixth Texas prisoner executed this year and the 483rd since 1982. At least eight other Texas prisoners have execution dates in the coming months, including three in August. www.ctpost.com/news/article/Texas-executes-its-1st-inmate-using-single-drug-3715166.php
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2012 23:26:34 GMT -6
No gr8 loss-should of went down yonks ago..14 yrs is a long time for tx..
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Post by zd3925 on Jul 19, 2012 8:18:31 GMT -6
good to see the tard card didn't work.Another turd gone.
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Post by fuglyville on Jul 20, 2012 16:06:24 GMT -6
Jason January, the former Dallas County assistant district attorney who prosecuted Hearn for capital murder, said to stop the punishment because of fetal alcohol syndrome "would be a free pass for anyone whose parents drank." "No question he had a tough background, but a lot of people have tough backgrounds and work their way out and don't fill someone's head with 10 bullets," he said.
www.ctpost.com/news/article/Texas-executes-its-1st-inmate-using-single-drug-3715166.phpIt's important to note that fetal alcohol syndrome can manifest itself in a variety of different ways - the fact remains that some can deal with it while others are ruined; thus, unless it's conclusively proven that he didn't suffer from it at all the doubt should count to his favor. The fact that the state took his life instead, is a travesty and a disgrace to the state of Texas. At the very least, the state should pay for a decent funeral. That's the least any state can do when they kill people in cold blood. If they don't, they should.
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Post by Stormyweather on Jul 20, 2012 16:24:35 GMT -6
Jason January, the former Dallas County assistant district attorney who prosecuted Hearn for capital murder, said to stop the punishment because of fetal alcohol syndrome "would be a free pass for anyone whose parents drank." "No question he had a tough background, but a lot of people have tough backgrounds and work their way out and don't fill someone's head with 10 bullets," he said.
www.ctpost.com/news/article/Texas-executes-its-1st-inmate-using-single-drug-3715166.phpIt's important to note that fetal alcohol syndrome can manifest itself in a variety of different ways - the fact remains that some can deal with it while others are ruined; thus, unless it's conclusively proven that he didn't suffer from it at all the doubt should count to his favor. The fact that the state took his life instead, is a travesty and a disgrace to the state of Texas. At the very least, the state should pay for a decent funeral. That's the least any state can do when they kill people in cold blood. If they don't, they should. It's an atrocity that he helped hijack a man's car and shot him twelve times. And if no one claims the body the state does bury them in an inmate maintained cemetery about a mile and a half away. Good enough in my opinion.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2012 18:31:21 GMT -6
You know what gets me is,they carjack a car & turn a car stealing charge into a death penalty case. probability of getting jail time for the car stealing wouldnt be high..now he is going to die for a car..
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2012 20:36:35 GMT -6
I thought I remembered this guy. His brother used to hang out in chat on this system. Wasn't his name Brian?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2012 21:56:00 GMT -6
I thought I remembered this guy. His brother used to hang out in chat on this system. Wasn't his name Brian? Used to post as Bryan
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Post by Charlene on Jul 20, 2012 22:50:40 GMT -6
I wonder about Bryan a lot, hope he is okay.
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Post by The Tipsy Broker on Jul 21, 2012 1:56:07 GMT -6
The state pay for a decent funeral? Hahaha. Oh that made me laugh. Heres a thought, if his penpals think so highly of him, why don't they do it? Im serious too. If I struck up a close friendship with a woman on death row and claimed to support her all the way, the least I would do is give her a good send off if I could. Ah but im sincere in my actions. I was forgetting.
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Post by Californian on Jul 21, 2012 8:21:07 GMT -6
At the very least, the state should pay for a decent funeral. That's the least any state can do when they kill people in cold blood. If they don't, they should. If the body is not claimed by his scumpal buddies (as if) he is afforded a decent burial in the Captain Joe Byrd Cemeteryin Huntsville. It's better known as "Peckerwood Hill." A perfect place for this peckerwood.
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Post by Leah on Jul 21, 2012 14:05:56 GMT -6
At the very least, the state should pay for a decent funeral. That's the least any state can do when they kill people in cold blood. If they don't, they should. If the body is not claimed by his scumpal buddies (as if) he is afforded a decent burial in the Captain Joe Byrd Cemeteryin Huntsville. It's better known as "Peckerwood Hill." A perfect place for this peckerwood. Exactly! www.langleycreations.com/photo/deathpenalty/huntsville/index.htmlBut why not donate unclaimed bodies for medical research?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2012 22:50:02 GMT -6
The state pay for a decent funeral? Hahaha. Oh that made me laugh. Heres a thought, if his penpals think so highly of him, why don't they do it? Im serious too. If I struck up a close friendship with a woman on death row and claimed to support her all the way, the least I would do is give her a good send off if I could. Ah but im sincere in my actions. I was forgetting. Steve, you can fill people on the British tradition of what they used to do with the inmate after he has been hung. Providing a simple burial is actual is far nicer then the quicklime burial.
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Post by The Tipsy Broker on Jul 22, 2012 1:54:33 GMT -6
We used to dissect (publicly or privately) the body and put them on public display before burial in quick lime within the prison grounds. And before that gibbet them. Theres a cafe above the condemned plot where my local gaol was these days (not far from Carmarthen castle). Most visitors dont know what they're ordering their coffees over
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Post by moonlight on Jul 22, 2012 10:53:53 GMT -6
I'm quite pleased another undesirable element has been put to death for good. I just want to see more of them go the same path to hell.
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Post by Californian on Jul 22, 2012 20:25:17 GMT -6
But why not donate unclaimed bodies for medical research? I would imagine someone who has been put to death with 5 grams of a barbiturate might pose some toxicity problems to medical students. Unlikely, but still...
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Post by SubSurfCPO(ret) on Jul 23, 2012 3:27:17 GMT -6
But why not donate unclaimed bodies for medical research? I would imagine someone who has been put to death with 5 grams of a barbiturate might pose some toxicity problems to medical students. Unlikely, but still... Great, more fuel for the anti crowd - The DP creates toxic waste.
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Post by Californian on Jul 23, 2012 8:18:57 GMT -6
Great, more fuel for the anti crowd - The DP creates toxic waste. He was toxic waste long before he was executed.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2012 16:25:47 GMT -6
The state of Texas should rent billboard space and plaster these guys' faces on them for a month or so after they are executed. With a caption like "Killing people for their money is hazardous to your health. The People v Yokamon Hearn (1979-2012)."
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Post by Californian on Jul 23, 2012 22:18:39 GMT -6
The state of Texas should rent billboard space and plaster these guys' faces on them for a month or so after they are executed. With a caption like "Killing people for their money is hazardous to your health. The People v Yokamon Hearn (1979-2012)." I like it. Maybe comedian Ron White could do public service announcements, as well. "Hey, if ya kill someone in Texas, we kill ya right back!"
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