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Post by Californian on Jul 20, 2006 8:57:31 GMT -6
uly 20, 2006, 6:12AM 5-year-old's killer looking forward to execution By MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated Press HUNTSVILLE -- Condemned inmate Robert Anderson freely acknowledges a horrific crime in Amarillo that left a 5-year-old girl dead and earned him a trip tonight to the Texas death chamber. "There was nobody else, just me," Anderson says of the abduction and slaying of Audra Reeves nearly 14 years ago. "She was totally an innocent victim." Click to learn more... Anderson, 40, whose history of sexual offenses involving children began as a teenager, asked that no additional appeals be filed on his behalf to try to halt the 16th execution this year in Texas and the second in as many days in the nation's busiest capital punishment state. On Wednesday, a San Antonio man, Mauriceo Brown, 31, was executed for the 1996 shooting death of a 25-year-old man, Michael LaHood Jr., during a botched robbery on the driveway of Lahood's San Antonio home. "The only way I want this stopped is if they give a moratorium to the death penalty," Anderson said earlier this month in an interview outside death row at the Polunsky Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice near Livingston. "I'm actually looking forward to dying. I've made peace with the Lord and I'm trying to make peace with my family. And I have tried to make apologies with the victim's family over the years with no responses. I didn't expect them to respond." The girl, who lived with her mother in Florida and had just arrived in Amarillo days earlier to spend the summer with her father, was playing outside June 9, 1992, when Anderson snatched her as she walked by his Amarillo home. "It was a messed-up day," Anderson said from death row. "A lot of things went wrong." An argument earlier that day with his wife of about eight months set him off, he said. "The whole day revolved around the fight," he said. "She stormed out of the house and said when she returned she didn't want to find me." According to court records and Anderson's confession, he forced the girl to accompany him into the house and tried to rape her, then choked her and beat her with a footstool. When he discovered she still was alive, he drowned her in a bathtub. He stuffed her body into a large foam cooler, pushed the cooler down the street in a grocery cart and dumped it in a trash bin. An Amarillo jury took less than 15 minutes to come back with a guilty verdict and less than 30 minutes with the death penalty. "By far, it was absolutely the worst thing a little girl could ever go through," Chuck Slaughter, the Potter County assistant district attorney who prosecuted Anderson, said this week. "If there's anybody out there who deserves the punishment he received from a jury, it would be Robert Anderson." A neighbor discovered the body in the cooler and gave police a description of the man seen wheeling the shopping cart toward the garbage container. Anderson was apprehended a few blocks away as he was walking back toward home. "The whole day had slipped my mind," Anderson said. "For an hour or so, I didn't understand what the cops were asking me. Then suddenly, it just snapped. The whole day came into focus. "Everything came flooding back, all at once. It took less than 45 minutes to get three statements from me." Anderson was found to be mentally competent despite having visions of what he said were angels, demons and repeated visits to his cell by his young victim on the anniversary of her death. "She showed up this year and smiled at me and told me I was coming home," he said. "That was really weird." Anderson, as a teenager in Tulsa, Okla., he'd been in and out of centers "for deviant behavior," as he described them, to deal with his obsession for young girls. "My whole life is a regret," he said. "I made bad choices all the way up and down as far back as age 10... I should have been in prison when I was 15." In 1998, Anderson survived an attack by a fellow death row inmate who stabbed him 67 times with a shank. Anderson said the attack was the result of race-related prison gang extortion efforts and not related to his crime. Next week, Allen Bridgers, 35, from Norfolk, Va., is set to die on Tuesday for fatally shooting a woman at her home in Tyler and stealing her car. www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4059569.html
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Post by Stormyweather on Jul 20, 2006 9:24:12 GMT -6
I wonder why he was even still on death row. Shouldn't he have been executed a few years back. It's been fourteen years and he's a volunteer. This just doesn't make sense.
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Post by bigmama on Jul 20, 2006 14:33:32 GMT -6
My only regret here is that he survived the attack from another death row inmate in 1998.
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Post by spur on Jul 20, 2006 15:53:53 GMT -6
Texas is about to flush another one....Im gonna shoot for 6:21pm....bagged and tagged
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Post by sweethonesty on Jul 20, 2006 16:04:17 GMT -6
State Of Texas, should stuffed his body into a large foam cooler and put his # on the lid, and stuff him in a hole out back. He doesnt deserves any respect.
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Post by Elric of Melnibone on Jul 20, 2006 16:18:31 GMT -6
Less than an hour to go with this POS...
Get the doves in their tubes...Launch in 44 minutes....
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Post by Stormyweather on Jul 20, 2006 16:22:26 GMT -6
State Of Texas, should stuffed his body into a large foam cooler and put his # on the lid, and stuff him in a hole out back. He doesnt deserves any respect. Last night it wasn't done until about 6:40. I wonder what the delay was?
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Post by sweethonesty on Jul 20, 2006 16:33:03 GMT -6
State Of Texas, should stuffed his body into a large foam cooler and put his # on the lid, and stuff him in a hole out back. He doesnt deserves any respect. Last night it wasn't done until about 6:40. I wonder what the delay was? ohhhh who knows.... i hate any type of delays
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Post by Stormyweather on Jul 20, 2006 17:04:28 GMT -6
Well it should be about time now.
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Post by Elric of Melnibone on Jul 20, 2006 17:05:57 GMT -6
Yes...Another inmate dead of his OWN actions... Can I get a Big NEXT Stamp for this one...
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Post by Stormyweather on Jul 20, 2006 17:07:11 GMT -6
Yes...Another inmate dead of his OWN actions... Can I get a Big NEXT Stamp for this one... Well that's never been my department so I don't care.
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Post by Elric of Melnibone on Jul 20, 2006 17:09:09 GMT -6
I know. But I still would like one for this goober...
Murdered a baby...I hope He!! has a nice, hot welcome for this waste of skin...
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Post by Stormyweather on Jul 20, 2006 17:12:26 GMT -6
I know. But I still would like one for this goober... Murdered a baby...I hope He!! has a nice, hot welcome for this waste of skin... Better talk to Joe then or just beat him to the punch. Joe says he has a special one this time.
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Post by Elric of Melnibone on Jul 20, 2006 17:17:50 GMT -6
I will wait for Joe...He must have a good one, then....
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Post by Elric of Melnibone on Jul 20, 2006 17:27:53 GMT -6
That works perfectly. Thank you, Joe, from the bottom of my heart...
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Post by josephdphillips on Jul 20, 2006 17:53:06 GMT -6
That works perfectly. Thank you, Joe, from the bottom of my heart. Every murder victim counts. Always.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2006 18:00:38 GMT -6
That works perfectly. Thank you, Joe, from the bottom of my heart. Every murder victim counts. Always. Joe-what if the victim is a condemned murderer on death row who has exhausted all his appeals? Does he count? ;D
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Post by Elric of Melnibone on Jul 20, 2006 18:02:03 GMT -6
Killer of 5-year-old in Amarillo executed
HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- Child sex offender Robert Anderson apologized in a voice choking with emotion before he was executed Thursday evening for abducting and killing a 5-year-old girl in Amarillo 14 years ago.
"I am sorry for the pain I have caused you," Anderson told the grandmother of his victim. "I have regretted this for a long time. I am sorry.
"I only ask that you remember the Lord because he remembers us and he forgives us if we ask him."
Anderson also apologized to his family for "the pain of all the years and for putting you through all the things we had to go through."
As the lethal drugs began taking effect, Anderson muttered a prayer. Eight minutes later at 6:19 p.m. CDT, he was pronounced dead.
Anderson, 40, had acknowledged the horrific slaying of Audra Reeves and asked that no new appeals be filed to try to block his execution, the 16th this year in Texas and the second in as many days.
"The only way I want this stopped is if they give a moratorium to the death penalty," Anderson had said in a recent death row interview where he took sole responsibility for the girl's murder.
"There was nobody else, just me," he said. "She was totally an innocent victim."
Anderson had a history of sexual offenses involving children that began as a teenager in Tulsa, Okla., and said he'd been in and out of centers "for deviant behavior," as he described them, to deal with his obsession for young girls.
"My whole life is a regret," he said, adding that he looked forward to dying. "I should have been in prison when I was 15."
Audra lived with her mother in Live Oak, Fla., and had just arrived in Amarillo days earlier to spend the summer with her father. She was playing outside on June 9, 1992, when Anderson snatched her as she walked by his Amarillo home.
"It was a messed-up day," Anderson said. "A lot of things went wrong."
An argument earlier that day with his wife of about eight months set him off, he said.
"The whole day revolved around the fight," he said. "She stormed out of the house and said when she returned she didn't want to find me."
According to court records and Anderson's confession, he forced the girl to accompany him into the house and tried to rape her, then choked her and beat her with a footstool. When he discovered she still was alive, he drowned her in a bathtub. He stuffed her body into a large foam cooler, pushed the cooler down the street in a grocery cart and dumped it in a trash bin.
Anderson was apprehended a few blocks away as he was walking back toward home.
A neighbor had discovered the body in the cooler and identified him as the man seen wheeling the shopping cart toward the garbage container. Detectives searching his home found a piece of the girl's hair barrette in a bathroom trash can. The other piece was in the ice chest.
An Amarillo jury took less than 15 minutes to return a guilty verdict and less than 30 minutes to determine Anderson should die.
"By far, it was absolutely the worst thing a little girl could ever go through," Chuck Slaughter, the Potter County assistant district attorney who prosecuted Anderson, said this week. "If there's anybody out there who deserves the punishment he received from a jury, it would be Robert Anderson."
Anderson was found to be mentally competent despite having visions of what he said were angels, demons and repeated visits to his cell by his young victim on the anniversary of her death.
"She showed up this year and smiled at me and told me I was coming home," he said. "That was really weird."
In 1998, Anderson survived an attack by a fellow death row inmate who stabbed him 67 times with a shank. Anderson said the attack was the result of race-related prison gang extortion efforts and not related to his crime.
On Wednesday, a San Antonio man, 31-year-old Mauriceo Brown, was executed for the 1996 shooting death of Michael LaHood Jr., 25, during a botched robbery on the driveway of LaHood's San Antonio home.
Next week, Allen Bridgers, 35, from Norfolk, Va., is set to die Tuesday for fatally shooting a woman at her home in Tyler and stealing her car.
-------------------------------------- Just in...Another one bites the dust...
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Post by spur on Jul 20, 2006 18:02:37 GMT -6
if the 25th goes as planed and they plant "Bride over troubled sewage".....we could have tic tac toe....4 in a row.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2006 18:03:36 GMT -6
He is gone. chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4061657.htmlHe flew the standard Chitown departure, Sedley transition. Chitown departure procedures: "I am sorry for the pain I have caused you,..." (which some of Chitown's supporters claims is not a confession.) and: Sedley Transition: "It was a messed-up day," Anderson said. "A lot of things went wrong." An argument earlier that day with his wife of about eight months set him off, he said. "The whole day revolved around the fight," he said. "She stormed out of the house and said when she returned she didn't want to find me." (When you have a fight with your wife, it gives you an excuse to rape and kill.)
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Post by DeadElvis on Jul 20, 2006 18:07:10 GMT -6
revalations of empathy way too late.
again.
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Post by spur on Jul 20, 2006 18:08:33 GMT -6
As the lethal drugs began taking effect, Anderson muttered a prayer. Eight minutes later at 6:19 p.m. CDT, he was pronounced dead. Dang it....I missed it by two minutes!
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Post by Kay on Jul 20, 2006 18:11:00 GMT -6
My sympathy to Audra Ann's family, I wish you peace and healing. That poor little girl would be 19 now, just venturing out into the world, all those years lost to a brual murderer.
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Post by Rev. Agave on Jul 20, 2006 18:15:16 GMT -6
[glow=red,2,300]NEXT!![/glow]
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Post by DeadElvis on Jul 20, 2006 18:15:17 GMT -6
My sympathy to Audra Ann's family, I wish you peace and healing. That poor little girl would be 19 now, just venturing out into the world, all those years lost to a brual murderer. very true, kay. You could even take the consequences of untimely death even further as she will not be able to be a mother to a child, a grandmother, etc. The loss for our society for every murder is enormous.
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Post by Stormyweather on Jul 20, 2006 18:29:32 GMT -6
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Post by spur on Jul 20, 2006 18:30:18 GMT -6
Agaveman...you are the graphic king....no one comes close...I bow to thee.
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Post by josephdphillips on Jul 20, 2006 20:13:51 GMT -6
what if the victim is a condemned murderer on death row who has exhausted all his appeals? Does he count? ;D Technically speaking, isn't that a property crime?
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