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Post by rick4404 on Aug 28, 2012 9:18:18 GMT -6
Here's the latest on the Eric Robert case:
From KELO-TV, Sioux Falls, S.D.
It does look like this one is going to go down as scheduled. Robert has made no indication of any desire to appeal his sentence; and his attorneys appear to be abiding by his wishes.
However, Gov. Dennis Daugaard does have the final say whether or not Robert will be executed as scheduled. I'm not certain if that is an automatic part of South Dakota's process, or if Robert and his attorneys would have to formally request a gubernatorial review of the case.
In South Dakota, the governor has sole authority relative to all matters concerning executive clemency -- the granting of commutations of sentences, pardons, reprieves, etc. The governor may request a nonbinding recommendation from a state clemency review board before acting in a particular case, but he's under no legal obligation to ask for such a review and may act upon a case on his own volition, unilaterally.
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Post by moonlight on Sept 2, 2012 11:42:30 GMT -6
Me too hope he goes down on due course and that family members of the murder victim will finally be served their share of justice they deserve and get closure for their ongoing grief.
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Post by rick4404 on Oct 6, 2012 9:00:13 GMT -6
It looks like this execution will go down as scheduled. Eric Robert has no intention of appealing any further and wants his execution carried out. If South Dakota holds to what has been its practice, the execution could take place on Tuesday, Oct. 16th at 10 p.m. local time in Sioux Falls, S.D. South Dakota law requires the warden to execute the inmate at some time during the week that is set forth in the execution warrant. When Elijah Page was executed, the warden picked the Tuesday of the warrant week at 10 p.m. local time.
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Post by rick4404 on Oct 10, 2012 20:59:08 GMT -6
It looks like the Eric Robert execution is still on as planned.
From KELO-TV, Sioux Falls, S.D.
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Post by rick4404 on Oct 11, 2012 17:16:23 GMT -6
Eric Robert and Donald Moeller will not receive executive clemency from the governor. Barring anything unforeseen, South Dakota will carry out these two executions over the course of the next three weeks.
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Post by rick4404 on Oct 11, 2012 20:56:58 GMT -6
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Post by starbux on Oct 12, 2012 14:48:38 GMT -6
I wonder if this will be a record breaker for the quickest execution since the return in the 70's.
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Post by moonlight on Oct 12, 2012 16:51:09 GMT -6
If only ALL condemned murderers would have been executed in the same pace as this dirt bag Eric Robert, Society would have been a much better place to live. Its time a sweep reform in the American legal system takes place enabling executions of condemned murderers up to a year from sentence rendering.
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Post by rayozz on Oct 12, 2012 17:28:41 GMT -6
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Post by whitediamonds on Oct 12, 2012 18:28:25 GMT -6
I'm innocent I tell ya, & my IQ is 60, my arm I hear will hurt bad !!!!
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Post by rick4404 on Oct 12, 2012 18:37:30 GMT -6
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Post by rick4404 on Oct 12, 2012 18:41:53 GMT -6
I wonder if this will be a record breaker for the quickest execution since the return in the 70's. Could very well be. Gary Gilmore's in Utah, as far as I know, was the quickest execution between sentencing and execution. His was the first execution anywhere in America since 1967, when he was shot to death by a five-man firing squad on Jan. 17, 1977 at the Utah State Prison. He was convicted on Oct. 6, 1976 and executed a mere three months later.
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Post by starbux on Oct 13, 2012 0:35:38 GMT -6
Oh yeah I forgot about him. Yeah that probably is the record, under a year. Tommy Lee Jones played him. I remember the line "How do you want to be executed?" His response was "I prefer to be shot." Ha Ha.
I wonder what has happened, I was perusing the Death Row, roll's here in Nevada and we have people that are still alive at 30 years past the conviction. Guys like Tracy Petrocelli, who was convicted in several states on a mass murder crime spree starting in 1981, and he still does not have a date!
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Post by moonlight on Oct 13, 2012 2:56:22 GMT -6
Great news. I want him being dead as soon as possible. The more condemned murderers are executed the better society becomes. Every execution is a significant deterant factor for every scum bag who considers taken someone else's life. Plain and simple.
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Post by rick4404 on Oct 13, 2012 7:59:47 GMT -6
Oh yeah I forgot about him. Yeah that probably is the record, under a year. Tommy Lee Jones played him. I remember the line "How do you want to be executed?" His response was "I prefer to be shot." Ha Ha. I wonder what has happened, I was perusing the Death Row, roll's here in Nevada and we have people that are still alive at 30 years past the conviction. Guys like Tracy Petrocelli, who was convicted in several states on a mass murder crime spree starting in 1981, and he still does not have a date! At the time, Utah had just reinstated the death penalty, and the Utah Legislature at that time had not provided for the automatic appeal of a death sentence, as is commonplace today. At the time, all Utah required was that the execution take place in not less than 30 days, nor more than 60 days from the date that the convicted person was sentenced in state District Court. South Dakota's execution room at the state penitentiary in Sioux Falls, S.D. This is where Eric Robert will die on Monday evening, and two weeks later, Donald Moeller will in all likelihood be executed.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2012 12:50:45 GMT -6
Man, even for a voluntary executee he is getting it awfuly fast. I mean, getting juiced a whole year after being convicted. I gotta admit, thats lightning. And in South Dakota! I mean it took 5 years for Virginia to juice the DC Sniper who was voluntary. I am glad to see one of the slower states is starting to grow a pair.
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Post by rick4404 on Oct 13, 2012 12:58:56 GMT -6
Man, even for a voluntary executee he is getting it awfuly fast. I mean, getting juiced a whole year after being convicted. I gotta admit, thats lightning. And in South Dakota! I mean it took 5 years for Virginia to juice the DC Sniper who was voluntary. I am glad to see one of the slower states is starting to grow a pair. Eric Robert is a volunteer. He was convicted last year of murdering a corrections officer during an escape attempt. He pleaded guilty and insisted the judge sentence him to death. Robert said if he ever got out of prison, he would likely kill again. The judge obliged. Robert's case underwent the automatic mandatory appeal and review by the South Dakota Supreme Court, which upheld the conviction and death sentence; thus sending the case back to state Circuit Court Judge Bradley Zell of Sioux Falls for resentencing and setting of an execution week. In that Robert nor his attorneys are pursuing appeals in the federal courts, Robert is now only a little more than 48 hours away from his appointment with the executioner. Then, of course, South Dakota is set to execute Donald Moeller, who has been on death row for 20 years at the end of this month. Indeed, South Dakota within a matter of a few weeks will be executing two out of their five death row inmates. It's not necessarily because South Dakota has grown a pair. As a small state, their budget is not limitless, so in particular the Donald Moeller case has been playing itself out for 20 years now, so they knew the execution would one day take place. They hadn't planned on it being right after this one, but in any event, the state is prepared to carry out the lawful orders of the court if and when they are commanded to do so in as humane and dignified a manner as possible, according to the state corrections department director.
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Post by rayozz on Oct 13, 2012 22:04:23 GMT -6
Eric has had his last meal and is fasting for the last 2 days of his life.
A South Dakota inmate ate a last meal of ice cream ahead of his execution on Monday.
Lawyer Mark Kadi tells The Associated Press Saturday night that 50-year-old Eric Robert requested ice cream for his last meal before he dies. Robert is fasting for the 40 hours prior to the execution for religious purposes, so his last meal was on Saturday. Robert is Christian.
Robert is set to die at 10 p.m. Monday for the killing of prison guard Ronald "RJ" Johnson during a failed escape attempt in April 2011.
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Post by starbux on Oct 13, 2012 23:22:03 GMT -6
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Post by rayozz on Oct 14, 2012 3:39:27 GMT -6
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Post by Stormyweather on Oct 14, 2012 8:31:00 GMT -6
Huh?
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Post by Stormyweather on Oct 14, 2012 8:31:46 GMT -6
I would love to tbe there to throw my support for it. ;D
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Post by whitediamonds on Oct 14, 2012 9:24:44 GMT -6
Huh? I take it Eric volunteered for the DP, admitted he would kill again so the judge obliged his execution Nice when all agree
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Post by Stormyweather on Oct 14, 2012 10:14:00 GMT -6
Huh? I take it Eric volunteered for the DP, admitted he would kill again so the judge obliged his execution Nice when all agree My point is how can someone claim to be a Christian when they say they would kill again. That is what I meant by the Huh?.
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Post by whitediamonds on Oct 14, 2012 10:55:27 GMT -6
I take it Eric volunteered for the DP, admitted he would kill again so the judge obliged his execution Nice when all agree My point is how can someone claim to be a Christian when they say they would kill again. That is what I meant by the Huh?. Sorry gotcha ya now, heck Christian enough to agree to being executed but, knows he is driven to kill others and does not understand why??? Don't know by me just a guess... That is what Dahmer claimed too he did not know himself what drives him to do those heinous acts or control his impulses.
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Post by rick4404 on Oct 14, 2012 11:34:09 GMT -6
This one definitely is on for tomorrow night. (Monday, Oct. 15 at approximately 10 p.m. Central Time). Eric Robert has voluntarily waived all of his appeals and told his sentencing judge that "You will probably read about me killing again sometime, if you do not give me the death sentence." State Circiut Court Judge Bradley Zell of Sioux Falls obliged.
If as expected Robert is executed Monday night, this will be the fastest execution of a condemned killer between sentencing and execution since probably Gary Gilmore. Gilmore was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in Utah on Oct. 7, 1976 and was executed by a five-man firing squad at the Utah State Prison a mere three months later on Jan. 17, 1977. Utah had just reinstated the death penalty earlier in 1976, and the state Legislature had failed to make the appeal of a death sentence automatic (the first direct appeal following conviction). Accordingly, all Utah law required was that the execution take place in not less than 30 days nor more than 60 days from the date that the convicted murderer was sentenced in state District Court. Since then Utah now requires that all death sentences be automatically reviewed on direct appeal by the state Supreme Court.
South Dakota's only other execution in the post-Furman era also happened rather quickly. Elijah Page was executed five years ago in 2007 after waiving his appeals and asking that his sentence be carried out. Page was on death row for about six years before dropping his appeals and asking that the sentence be carried out.
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Post by Stormyweather on Oct 14, 2012 12:28:47 GMT -6
My point is how can someone claim to be a Christian when they say they would kill again. That is what I meant by the Huh?. Sorry gotcha ya now, heck Christian enough to agree to being executed but, knows he is driven to kill others and does not understand why??? Don't know by me just a guess... That is what Dahmer claimed too he did not know himself what drives him to do those heinous acts or control his impulses. I might agree with him that he deserves death but saying he would kill again and yet claims to be a Christian makes me scratch my head so to speak.
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Post by rick4404 on Oct 14, 2012 14:21:10 GMT -6
Sorry gotcha ya now, heck Christian enough to agree to being executed but, knows he is driven to kill others and does not understand why??? Don't know by me just a guess... That is what Dahmer claimed too he did not know himself what drives him to do those heinous acts or control his impulses. I might agree with him that he deserves death but saying he would kill again and yet claims to be a Christian makes me scratch my head so to speak. My guess is that he probably embraced Christianity, so to speak, after he murdered Mr. Johnson. If Eric Robert has truly repented of his sins and asked Jesus Christ to be the Lord and Savior of his life, then my Bible says he is assured of a place in Heaven when he dies. Romans 10:9,10 says: "That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved."
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Post by Stormyweather on Oct 14, 2012 14:51:10 GMT -6
I might agree with him that he deserves death but saying he would kill again and yet claims to be a Christian makes me scratch my head so to speak. My guess is that he probably embraced Christianity, so to speak, after he murdered Mr. Johnson. If Eric Robert has truly repented of his sins and asked Jesus Christ to be the Lord and Savior of his life, then my Bible says he is assured of a place in Heaven when he dies. Romans 10:9,10 says: "That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved." I'm aware of all that. But I can't help but wonder if he wasn't executed would he still kill again. If so he hasn't found Christ.
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Post by rick4404 on Oct 14, 2012 20:30:22 GMT -6
I guess only God knows the answer to that question.
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