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Post by Californian on Jun 17, 2014 7:46:27 GMT -6
Let the anti whining begin! 3 inmates set to die; previous execution botched By JIM SALTER ST. LOUIS (AP) — There have been no U.S. executions in the seven weeks since an Oklahoma inmate died of a heart attack following a botched lethal injection. That soon could change, with three convicted killers scheduled to die in the span of about 24 hours. All three states planning lethal injections this week — Florida, Georgia and Missouri — refuse to say where they get their drugs, or if they are tested. Lawyers for the condemned inmates have challenged the secretive process used by some states to obtain lethal injection drugs from unnamed, loosely regulated compounding pharmacies. Nine executions nationwide have been stayed or postponed since late April, when Clayton Lockett's vein collapsed just as the drug began flowing into his arm in Oklahoma's death chamber. Lockett's punishment was halted, but despite efforts to save him, he died of a heart attack. "I think after Clayton Lockett's execution everyone is going to be watching very closely," Fordham University School of Law professor Deborah Denno, a death penalty expert, said of this week's executions. "The scrutiny is going to be even closer." Marcus Wellons is set to die Tuesday night in Georgia, followed six hours later by John Winfield, who faces execution at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday in Missouri. John Ruthell Henry's execution is scheduled for 6 p.m. Wednesday in Florida. Georgia and Missouri both use the single drug pentobarbital, a sedative. Florida uses a three-drug combination of midazolam hydrochloride, vecuronium bromide and potassium chloride. Despite concerns about the drugs and how they are obtained, death penalty supporters say all three convicted killers are getting what they deserve. Wellons was convicted in the 1989 rape and murder of India Roberts, his 15-year-old neighbor in suburban Atlanta. Soon after the girl left for school, another neighbor heard muffled screams from the apartment where Wellons was living. Later that day, a man told police he saw a man carrying what appeared to be a body in a sheet. Police found the girl's body in a wooded area. She had been strangled and raped. In Missouri, Winfield had been dating Carmelita Donald on and off for several years and fathered two of her children. Donald began dating another man. One night in 1996, in a jealous rage, Winfield showed up outside Donald's apartment in St. Louis County and confronted her, along with two friends of Donald. Winfield shot all three women in the head. Arthea Sanders and Shawnee Murphy died in the attack. Donald survived but was blinded. Symone Winfield, the daughter of Donald and John Winfield, is among those asking Gov. Jay Nixon for clemency. A federal judge granted a stay of execution last week on a claim that a prison worker dropped plans write a letter in support of clemency due to intimidation from staff. That stay is under appeal. In Florida, the state is moving ahead with the execution despite claims that Henry is mentally ill and intellectually disabled. The state claims anyone with an IQ of at least 70 is not mentally disabled; testing has shown Henry's IQ at 78, though his lawyers say it should be re-evaluated. Henry stabbed his estranged wife, Suzanne Henry, to death a few days before Christmas in 1985. Hours later, he killed her 5-year-old son from a previous relationship. Henry had previously pleaded no contest to second-degree murder for fatally stabbing his common-law wife, Patricia Roddy, in 1976, and was on parole when Suzanne Henry and the boy were killed. Florida and Missouri trail only Texas as the most active death penalty states. Florida has executed five men in 2014 and Missouri four. Texas has carried out seven executions. Combined, the three states have performed 16 of the 20 executions this year. Wellons would be the first Georgia inmate executed since February 2013 and just the second since 2011.
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Post by unkelremus on Jun 17, 2014 13:54:34 GMT -6
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Post by wrench on Jun 17, 2014 15:47:56 GMT -6
put me down for the trifecta.
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Post by Californian on Jun 17, 2014 17:10:14 GMT -6
"All three states planning lethal injections this week — Florida, Georgia and Missouri — refuse to say where they get their drugs, or if they are tested." Obviously, the drugs should be tested. On scumpals.
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Post by Californian on Jun 17, 2014 17:55:21 GMT -6
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Post by whitediamonds on Jun 17, 2014 18:01:57 GMT -6
Now I see this as a good investment for all.
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Post by starbux on Jun 17, 2014 20:01:34 GMT -6
I Cant wait bring on the pain
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Post by Californian on Jun 17, 2014 21:10:28 GMT -6
Apparently, his slickster attorneys had three more filings up their sleeve. The Supreme Court laughed them off the premises. They should be getting ready to light him up right now.
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Post by Californian on Jun 17, 2014 21:25:53 GMT -6
Jeez, where's Matt to say "Get on with it" ? UPDATE: The U.S. Supreme Court has denied Marcus Wellons’ request for a stay of execution, Atlanta lawyer Bill Morrison, one of Wellons’ attorneys, said. With Wellons’ appeals now exhausted, the state Department of Corrections is expected to carried out his execution at some time tonight. UPDATE: The Georgia Supreme Court has declined to stay the pending execution of condemned killer Marcus Wellons, rejecting his challenge to the state’s lethal-injection secrecy law. The court issued its decision by a 5-2 vote, with Justices Robert Benham and Carol Hunstein dissenting. Wellons still has an appeal pending in the U.S. Supreme Court. His execution, initially set for 7 p.m. tonight, has been at least temporarily delayed. ORIGINAL REPORT: The federal appeals court in Atlanta has denied a stay of execution to condemned killer Marcus Wellons, who is set to be put to death by lethal injection tonight. The court issued its ruling shortly before the scheduled execution, initially set for 7 p.m. Wellons’ attorneys are now taking their appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court and filing other claims as well. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously agreed that Wellons had not been able to establish that the lethal-injection protocol to be used in his execution created a demonstrated risk of severe pain. But Judge Charles Wilson, writing a concurrence, expressed great concern over the state’s lethal-injection secrecy law enacted last year by the General Assembly. It shields from the public and the courts information about the provider of the lethal-injection drug, the qualifications of the execution team and details about the drug itself. For this reason, Wilson asked, how could Wellons show that he faced a risk of needless pain and suffering “when the state has passed a law prohibiting him from learning about the compound it plans to use to execute him?” Wilson said he had “serious concerns” about the state’s need to keep information about the lethal-injection process concealed from the public and the courts, “especially given the recent much-publicized botched execution in Oklahoma.” “Unless judges have information about the specific nature of a method of execution,” Wilson wrote, “we cannot fulfill our constitutional role of determining whether a state’s method of execution violates the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment before it becomes too late.” Judges Gerald Tjoflat and Stanley Marcus did not join Wilson’s concurring opinion. Wellons’ lawyers had asked the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to stop the execution to give them time to gather “relevant information” to evaluate the quality of the compounded sedative that is to be used to put him to death. In a filing with the federal appeals court Tuesday, Wellons’ attorneys said the only way to be sure that the compounded pentobarbitol made specifically for Wellons is safe is to know who made it and their credentials. Otherwise, the appeal said, Wellons is at risk of a painful death. “The Eighth Amendment protects Mr. Wellons from cruel and unusual punishment,” the appeal said. “But it is a hollow right unless it can be enforced prospectively.” Wellons’ lawyers referenced the botched execution of Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma, who died of a heart attack shortly after his execution was called off. “There is certainly no redress available to him now,” Wellons’ lawyers said about Lockett’s death. The Georgia law that protects the identity of everyone involved in an execution, including the source of the drug, shields “these critical aspects of how they intend to carry out” his execution, now set for 7 p.m. at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison near Jackson. Supporters of the law said it was necessary to ensure the state could get lethal injection drugs because of public pressures put on companies. A federal judge in Atlanta rejected Wellons’ argument on Monday that his constitutional protections from cruel and unusual punishment were threatened by Georgia’s 1-year-old secrecy law that prevents him from knowing who made the pentobarbital that will be used to put him to death. U.S. District Judge Timothy Batten said the Georgia Department of Correction had every incentive to make sure nothing goes wrong with his execution set for 7 p.m. at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison near Jackson. “DOC officials certainly have a strong interest in executing its condemned prisoners in a manner that does not violate their rights,” Batten wrote. “Botched executions lead to embarrassment, investigations, bad press, and, perhaps worst of all for the individuals involved, the knowledge that they caused an individual needless pain and suffering.” Batten said he “presumes that the state acted in good faith in selecting the company that produced the pentobarbital and in appointing the team slated to carry out (Wellons’) execution. Wellons was sentenced to die for raping and murdering India Roberts, who lived with her mother in a Vinings townhouse near the one where Wellons lived. The girl disappeared on an August 1989 morning after kissing her mother goodbye and leaving to walk to the school bus stop. Her body was found a few hours later. She had been strangled with a telephone cord. If Wellons is executed, he will be the first that Georgia has put to death using a single compounded drug and the first under the law that protects the identity of the source of the lethal injection drug used. He also will be the first in the nation to be put to death since a botched execution in Oklahoma in April.
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Post by Californian on Jun 17, 2014 22:43:29 GMT -6
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Post by Californian on Jun 17, 2014 23:21:43 GMT -6
Looks like #2 in the trifecta will bite the dust, as well.
Missouri Killer John Winfield to be Executed: Supreme Court Denies Final Appeal
A rapid-fire sequence of appeals has left John Winfield with nowhere to turn as the hours tick down to his scheduled execution at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday (Tuesday night). The Supreme Court denied his lawyers' request for a stay of execution late Tuesday night, and the only thing that could have stopped Winfield's death was his clemency petition on the desk of Missouri Governor Jay Nixon.
Nixon denied the request for clemency minutes after the Supreme Court decision.
See also: "He's a Good Person": Daughter of Death Row Inmate Asks Nixon To Spare Her Father's Life
Winfield was sentenced to death in 1998 for blinding his ex-girlfriend and killing two other women in a 1996 shooting spree.
A U.S. District judge stayed the execution last week after his lawyers showed how Missouri prison officials intimidated a sympathetic staff member from sending a letter supporting Winfield's petition of clemency.
On Tuesday afternoon, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit lifted that stay. Then, hours later, Supreme Court denied four successive appeals for a stay of execution from Winfield's lawyers. Soon after, Nixon denied Winfield's request for clemency.
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Post by Californian on Jun 17, 2014 23:41:59 GMT -6
Two down!
Missouri executes inmate for killing 2 women John Winfield was executed Wednesday by lethal injection at 12:01 a.m. and was pronounced dead at 12:10 a.m., a spokesman for the Department of Public Safety said.
Winfield took four or five deep breaths as the drug was injected, puffed his cheeks twice and then fell silent, all in a matter of a few seconds.
His execution at the state prison in Bonne Terre came shortly after convicted killer Marcus Wellons was put to death in Georgia. Wellons' was the first execution in the nation since a botched execution on April 29 in Oklahoma raised new concerns about lethal injection.
Another convicted killer, John Ruthell Henry, is scheduled to die later Wednesday in Florida.
Winfield shot his ex-girlfriend, who was the mother of two of his children, in the head, leaving her blind. He shot and killed two of her friends.
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Post by spinaltap on Jun 18, 2014 1:37:05 GMT -6
Good to see the machine is back in gear again
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2014 2:19:30 GMT -6
holy cow, what a day !! 2 pieces of crap down, one more low life to go to-morrow in florida, the murdering pos in florida already has done 15 yrs prison for second degree murder, so how can you say that he hasn't earned his death sentence for 2- 1st degree murder charges, maybe if they put him down like the dog he is 1n 1975 2 people would still be alive...
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Post by unkelremus on Jun 18, 2014 6:10:59 GMT -6
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Post by Californian on Jun 18, 2014 8:03:25 GMT -6
John Henry scheduled for execution at 6 p.m. Wednesday
A federal appeals court has rejected a bid to delay the execution of John Ruthell Henry, who is scheduled to be executed at 6 tonight at the Florida State Prison in Raiford.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta issued an opinion late Tuesday, said capital cases clerk Jan Camp. Only the U.S. Supreme Court could now delay Henry's execution, Camp added.
Henry was sentenced to death for murdering his wife in Zephyrhills in 1985.
Defense attorney Baya Harrison, who filed the appeal over the weekend, has argued that Henry, 63, is mentally disabled and should not be put to death under the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
Henry has been on death row for 27 years. He stabbed 28-year-old Patricia Roddy 20 times in 1976. He served just over seven years before being paroled in January 1983.
In December 1985, he stabbed his wife, Suzanne Henry, to death with a 5-inch paring knife after an argument. Hours later, he drove to Hillsborough County where he stabbed her 5-year-old son, Eugene Christian, with the same knife while the boy sat in his lap in a car.
Henry's scheduled execution comes in the wake of a botched procedure in April in Oklahoma. Clayton Lockett was administered drugs but soon started writhing in his restraints. Officials halted the execution, but Lockett later died of a heart attack. Oklahoma uses a three-drug cocktail in its executions, and according to published reports one of Lockett's veins exploded.
Florida also uses a three-drug combination. First, 500mg of a midazolam solution — to render the inmate unconscious — is injected, followed by a "flush" of saline. The executioner will check if Henry has lost consciousness, according to protocols written by the Florida Department of Corrections.
Once the execution team is satisfied Henry is indeed unconscious, two more drugs, vecuronium bromide and potassium chloride, will be administered. An on-hand physician will confirm the death.
Florida has executed 81 inmates since the death penalty was reinstated in 1979, according to DOC records.
Last year, seven were put to death, the most since 1984, when eight people were executed.
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Post by Matt on Jun 18, 2014 14:08:18 GMT -6
Hey, Georgia "got on with it!" Fingers crossed that Florida won't let us down.
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Post by Californian on Jun 18, 2014 14:34:09 GMT -6
Looks like we're rounding third and heading for home...
John Henry scheduled for execution at 6 p.m. Wednesday Jon Silman, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, June 17, 2014 6:33pm
A federal appeals court has rejected a bid to delay the execution of John Ruthell Henry, who is scheduled to be executed at 6 tonight at the Florida State Prison in Raiford.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta issued an opinion late Tuesday, said capital cases clerk Jan Camp. Only the U.S. Supreme Court could now delay Henry's execution, Camp added.
Henry was sentenced to death for murdering his wife in Zephyrhills in 1985.
Defense attorney Baya Harrison, who filed the appeal over the weekend, has argued that Henry, 63, is mentally disabled and should not be put to death under the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
Henry has been on death row for 27 years. He stabbed 28-year-old Patricia Roddy 20 times in 1976. He served just over seven years before being paroled in January 1983.
In December 1985, he stabbed his wife, Suzanne Henry, to death with a 5-inch paring knife after an argument. Hours later, he drove to Hillsborough County where he stabbed her 5-year-old son, Eugene Christian, with the same knife while the boy sat in his lap in a car.
Henry's scheduled execution comes in the wake of a botched procedure in April in Oklahoma. Clayton Lockett was administered drugs but soon started writhing in his restraints. Officials halted the execution, but Lockett later died of a heart attack. Oklahoma uses a three-drug cocktail in its executions, and according to published reports one of Lockett's veins exploded.
Florida also uses a three-drug combination. First, 500mg of a midazolam solution — to render the inmate unconscious — is injected, followed by a "flush" of saline. The executioner will check if Henry has lost consciousness, according to protocols written by the Florida Department of Corrections.
Once the execution team is satisfied Henry is indeed unconscious, two more drugs, vecuronium bromide and potassium chloride, will be administered. An on-hand physician will confirm the death.
Florida has executed 81 inmates since the death penalty was reinstated in 1979, according to DOC records.
Last year, seven were put to death, the most since 1984, when eight people were executed.
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Post by Californian on Jun 18, 2014 18:23:15 GMT -6
And down he goes. One more and we'd be hitting for the cycle. John Ruthell Henry Becomes 3rd Man Executed In 24 Hours Posted: 06/18/2014 7:59 pm EDT STARKE, Fla. (AP) — Florida has executed a man who fatally stabbed his wife and her young son in 1985. It is the third U.S. execution in less than 24 hours since a botched April lethal injection in Oklahoma. The governor's office says John Ruthell Henry was pronounced dead at 7:43 p.m. Wednesday. The 63-year-old was convicted and sentenced to death for fatally stabbing his wife, Suzanne Henry. He also was convicted of fatally stabbing Suzanne Henry's 5-year-old son hours after the woman's murder. Henry previously had pleaded no contest to second-degree murder for stabbing his common-law wife, Patricia Roddy, in 1976. He served less than eight years and was released in 1983.
The U.S. Supreme Court turned down a last-second appeal by attorneys who argued Henry wasn't mentally stable enough to comprehend his death sentence. Hasta la vista, creeps.
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Post by starbux on Jun 18, 2014 18:59:58 GMT -6
And did these three winners get? A one way ticket out of the universe, no looking back and no return. A little sodium for that last meal?
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Post by whitediamonds on Jun 19, 2014 10:04:38 GMT -6
Releasing a murderer out on parole for (murder of a women) then murders again another women including a young child again... & anti's say they will not back executions in their name? We will teach them by example killing is wrong?
Sure they do(anti's) you are allowing the slaughter/kilings of more just of the wrong ones. grrr Does that really make your hands clean of bloodshed. Who is really at the end of this non sense is being barbaric?
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Post by Tracy on Jun 19, 2014 20:29:32 GMT -6
I hope all the DR inmates are shi**ing their pants right about now.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2014 0:52:36 GMT -6
what would happen if the 500mg of a midazolam solution was not administered and only the vecuronium bromide and potassium chloride was given, would the inmate just go into full cardiac arrest..sound good for henry, he so earned his death sentence..
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Post by Californian on Jun 20, 2014 10:34:27 GMT -6
what would happen if the 500mg of a midazolam solution was not administered and only the vecuronium bromide and potassium chloride was given, would the inmate just go into full cardiac arrest..sound good for henry, he so earned his death sentence.. The pavulon is a paralytic that stops respiration almost instantly, although the patient is fully conscious. The KCL stops the heart just about as fast. KCL is a popular suicide drug for doctors, nurses, and other health care workers. The first drug administered, Versed, is popular for surgical sedation. The dose administered in in an execution is about 10x the lethal dose, so it alone is lethal. The Pavulon and KCL were used in the first LI protocol, which was designed by an anesthesiologist, just so everyone didn't have to stand around tapping their toes waiting for the hump to croak. The original LI process left the condemned absent vital signs within 5-6 minutes. You will note from press reports that the single-drug process is now taking 10-15 minutes for the clinical signs of death (no pulse, no respiration, and lack of pupillary response) to manifest. I leave it to you to decide if that's better or worse. I know what I think.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2014 18:17:41 GMT -6
what would happen if the 500mg of a midazolam solution was not administered and only the vecuronium bromide and potassium chloride was given, would the inmate just go into full cardiac arrest..sound good for henry, he so earned his death sentence.. The pavulon is a paralytic that stops respiration almost instantly, although the patient is fully conscious. The KCL stops the heart just about as fast. KCL is a popular suicide drug for doctors, nurses, and other health care workers. The first drug administered, Versed, is popular for surgical sedation. The dose administered in in an execution is about 10x the lethal dose, so it alone is lethal. The Pavulon and KCL were used in the first LI protocol, which was designed by an anesthesiologist, just so everyone didn't have to stand around tapping their toes waiting for the hump to croak. The original LI process left the condemned absent vital signs within 5-6 minutes. You will note from press reports that the single-drug process is now taking 10-15 minutes for the clinical signs of death (no pulse, no respiration, and lack of pupillary response) to manifest. I leave it to you to decide if that's better or worse. I know what I think. thanx cali very interesting- just to add my 2 cents worth, the quicker the better i say….
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Post by whitediamonds on Jun 21, 2014 15:28:14 GMT -6
Obviously, the drugs should be tested. On scumpals. Speaking of.. all the women are swooning over the recent California criminal.
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Post by nate on Jul 16, 2014 9:57:12 GMT -6
Many members here sound very bloodthirsty....just like murderers.
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Post by whitediamonds on Jul 16, 2014 10:27:03 GMT -6
That's odd I find anti's to be the blood thirsty one's almost like the murderers themselves. Like hit men/ women who let them ( opportunity )for you" to kill as many as they want. It's ok if they kill again inside or outside. While you believe your self rightous hands to be clean of blood.
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Post by nate on Jul 21, 2014 10:34:26 GMT -6
I dont have the audacity to gloat over ANYONES death at all.
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Post by whitediamonds on Jul 21, 2014 11:42:56 GMT -6
I dont have the audacity to gloat over ANYONES death at all. I agree, but I certainly feel relief. Won't ever happen here, what the Baby killer is doing now out on the streets. Baby P's killer.
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