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Post by Californian on Apr 16, 2014 20:21:00 GMT -6
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Post by Californian on Apr 16, 2014 18:38:02 GMT -6
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Post by Californian on Apr 16, 2014 16:28:59 GMT -6
It's only taken 13 yrs....pfft" Appears his defense attorneys are mentally impaired. Nah, just playing the game. As the gurney looms, it's "say anything" time. Who knows what some idiot judge might buy?
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Post by Californian on Apr 14, 2014 12:29:35 GMT -6
Oh, a multilingual redneck. As opposed to a multilingual spawn of Nazis? Sorry, son, the redneck wins.
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Post by Californian on Apr 9, 2014 20:23:08 GMT -6
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Post by Californian on Apr 4, 2014 8:02:50 GMT -6
State Attny's argued the new pentobarbital falls within acceptable ranges of potency. "Sells" Attny's said they have no way of confirming that.. Sells took a few breathes , eye's closed after less than a minute he stopped moving. Seems Sell's Attny's should know now it was potent enough it's confirmed. The serial killer is dead. Kinda screws over Hernandez, due for the gurney next week, who was making the same claim. Excellent!
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Post by Californian on Apr 3, 2014 20:22:39 GMT -6
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Post by Californian on Apr 3, 2014 18:03:40 GMT -6
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Post by Californian on Apr 3, 2014 18:03:13 GMT -6
Executed.
Serial killer executed with Texas' new drug supply
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A serial killer was put to death Thursday in Texas after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his lawyers’ demand that the state release information about where it gets its lethal injection drug.
Tommy Lynn Sells, 49, was the first inmate to be injected with a dose of newly replenished pentobarbital that Texas prison officials obtained to replace an expired supply of the powerful sedative.
Sells declined to give a statement. As the drug began flowing into his arms inside the death chamber in Huntsville, Sells took a few breaths, his eyes closed and he began to snore. After less than a minute, he stopped moving. He was pronounced dead 13 minutes later, at 6:27 p.m. CDT.
Sells’ lawyers had made a plea to the Supreme Court earlier in the day after a federal appeals court on Wednesday allowed the execution to stay on schedule. A lower court had stopped the execution Wednesday, ordering the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to reveal more information about its drug supplier, but the ruling was quickly tossed on appeal.
Sells, who claims to have committed as many as 70 killings across the U.S., was sentenced to death for fatally stabbing a 13-year-old South Texas girl in 1999. He also lost an appeal before the high court that contended his case should be reviewed because he had poor legal help during his murder trial.
In their drug argument, Sells’ attorneys argued they needed to know the name of the pharmacy now providing the state with pentobarbital used during executions in order to verify the drug’s quality and protect Sells from unconstitutional pain and suffering.
But the Supreme Court, like the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, sided with Texas prison officials, who argued that information about the drug supplier must be kept secret to protect the pharmacy from threats of violence. The high court justices did not elaborate on why they made the decision, which came about an hour before Sells’ scheduled execution.
State attorneys argued the new pentobarbital stock falls within the acceptable ranges of potency. Sells’ attorneys said they had no way of confirming that.
The Supreme Court last month rejected similar arguments from a Missouri inmate’s attorneys who challenged the secrecy surrounding where that state obtained its execution drugs, and the condemned prisoner was put to death.
Questions about the source of execution drugs have arisen in several states in recent months as numerous drugmakers — particularly in Europe, where opposition to capital punishment is strongest — have refused to sell their products if they will be used in executions.
That’s led several state prison systems to compounding pharmacies, which are not as heavily regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as more conventional pharmacies.
A batch of pentobarbital that Texas purchased from a compounding pharmacy in suburban Houston expired at the end of March. The pharmacy refused to sell the state any more drugs, citing threats it received after its name was made public.
Texas found a new, undisclosed supplier.
The court case challenging the state’s stance also included 44-year-old Ramiro Hernandez-Llanas, who is scheduled for execution next week. But the 5th Circuit ruling affected only Sells.
Sells’ execution was the fifth lethal injection this year in Texas, the nation’s busiest state for the death penalty.
A jury convicted him of capital murder in 2000 for the stabbing of 13-year-old Kaylene Harris and slashing of her 10-year-old friend, Krystal Surles, who survived and helped police find Sells. The girls were attacked on New Year’s Eve 1999 as they slept in Harris’ home in Del Rio, about 150 miles west of San Antonio.
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Post by Californian on Apr 3, 2014 15:35:30 GMT -6
So this is still on for the time, I know there is an appeal pending Lets get er done TX Lower court stay overturned at the appellate level, on to SCOTUS, which shot down an appeal very similar just last week in Missouri. Odds-on he's toasted a rich shade of golden brown.
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Post by Californian on Mar 30, 2014 14:01:49 GMT -6
The nitrogen being introduced would cause the oxygen molecules to bind preventing the brain from getting enough. Uh...huh? You're breathing 79% N right now and the 02 molecules still seem to be working.
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Post by Californian on Mar 28, 2014 23:12:16 GMT -6
Maybe he should have had a special last meal, doughnuts, tacos then topped with a baseball bat to his head. You know, the Russkis are so much less dramatic about it. They just stick a 9MM in the hump's ear, pull the trigger, and have another convict clean up the mess.
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Post by Californian on Mar 28, 2014 23:08:07 GMT -6
OK meet Rashad Caroujan Owens. "Rashad Caroujan?" Who names these friggin people?
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Post by Californian on Mar 27, 2014 21:29:03 GMT -6
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Post by Californian on Mar 26, 2014 12:04:49 GMT -6
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Post by Californian on Mar 23, 2014 19:45:27 GMT -6
Oh, yes, in eastern China a sack of rice fell off a truck. And on Pro-Dp, a whiny sack of sh!t Euroweenie posted yet again.
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Post by Californian on Mar 20, 2014 20:18:10 GMT -6
Anyhow, did anyone here read his letter, last words while alive? It was a calculating/manipulative work of a seasoned prison con artist Also did not show any remorse while profiling himself as the victim. Seven pages of self-serving crap.
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Post by Californian on Mar 20, 2014 17:50:36 GMT -6
Tough chit. That was a statement, when your own family don't give a chit. I'm sure it was. But it isn't like he brought honor and fame on them, is it? I mean, the pitiful jackass couldn't even rustle up a scumpal. In TEXAS. How lame is THAT?
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Post by Californian on Mar 20, 2014 17:09:20 GMT -6
Must have died a lonely death, not one of his own family members attended the execution to support him. Tough chit.
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Post by Californian on Mar 19, 2014 22:00:46 GMT -6
Getting another murderer is cool, but the guy was a RAPPER, too? Don't git no better'n nat!
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Post by Californian on Mar 5, 2014 19:07:17 GMT -6
I sense a finger hovering over the button in 3...2...1...
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Post by Californian on Feb 26, 2014 18:02:52 GMT -6
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Post by Californian on Feb 26, 2014 18:00:28 GMT -6
Buh-bye-bye, creep. Man executed for pipe bomb death of Fla. trooperSTARKE, Fla. — A drug trafficker who placed a pipe bomb in a gift-wrapped microwave oven in a plot to kill two potential murder witnesses was executed Wednesday for the 1992 death of a Florida highway trooper who became the unintended victim. Paul Augustus Howell, 48, was pronounced dead at 6:32 p.m. following a lethal injection at the Florida State Prison in Stark, the office of Gov. Rick Scott said in an email. Howell was condemned for the killing of Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Jimmy Fulford on Feb. 1, 1992, when the package exploded during a traffic stop. Howell built the bomb in his Fort Lauderdale home and placed it in the microwave oven, court documents stated. He then paid another man, Lester Watson, $200 to deliver the box across-state to a woman in Marianna who, along with a friend, could tie Howell to a drug-related murder, according to the records. But Fulford pulled Watson over for speeding about an hour from his Florida Panhandle destination and the bomb never was delivered to the intended target. Instead, Watson was arrested after giving Fulford a false name and birthdate. Watson also gave Fulford permission to search the car rented in Howell’s name. Before Fulford opened the package, a police dispatcher called Howell to let him know what was going on. Instead of mentioning the bomb, Howell said he had given Watson permission to drive the car, but didn’t think Watson was leaving the Fort Lauderdale area. Two deputies took Watson and a passenger to a jail while Fulford took inventory of the car’s contents. When the 35-year-old trooper opened the package and looked to see what was in the microwave oven, a powerful explosion took his life. The blast — so strong that it left a depression in the roadway — occurred along Interstate 10 just east of Tallahassee. Had the blast occurred in Tammie Bailey’s apartment — the woman who was supposed to have received the bomb — it would have been powerful enough to blow out doors and walls, potentially killing anyone in the apartment as well as neighbors, according to court documents. Authorities said Bailey’s friend Yolanda McAllister also was an intended target. Bailey had previously told Howell she needed a microwave oven to heat her baby’s bottles. “He saved a bunch of people’s lives and I feel if he had to do it over again, he would have done the same thing because that’s just the kind of person he was,” said Sheriff Ben Stewart in Florida’s Madison County, a friend who grew up with Fulford. Fulford’s death prompted a state and federal investigation that broke apart a drug ring and led to the indictment of 28 people. Howell, a native of Jamaica, was sentenced to life on federal drug charges. He was then convicted on state charges of murder and making, possessing, placing and discharging a destructive and handed the death sentence. His lawyers had filed an unsuccessful appeal Tuesday to the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that a new drug Florida uses for executions wasn’t tested for that purpose. This was the fifth execution in the state using the new drug, midazolam hydrochloride, as part of a three-drug mix. Watson testified that while he saw Howell wrapping the box that contained the microwave oven, he never knew it was a bomb, thinking instead it held drugs. Watson was convicted of second degree murder and is serving a 40-year sentence. Howell’s brother Patrick, who helped him build the bomb, was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life.
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Post by Californian on Feb 26, 2014 8:39:53 GMT -6
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Post by Californian on Feb 25, 2014 16:54:39 GMT -6
The final gangplank appeals are being considered by SCOTUS. Looks like this one is going to go through.
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Post by Californian on Feb 20, 2014 20:29:03 GMT -6
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Post by Californian on Feb 19, 2014 17:53:00 GMT -6
The 'I'm Human' incident happened with David Lawson in North Carolina. The report I read about Jimmy Lee Gray was that while he was banging his head, his eyes were rolled back. He made only guttural sounds which are common in anything that are in the throes of death. I just googled that and you're correct. my apologies. MMmmm. Not sure there's a correlation between human and animals. I've shot a deer's heart out from about 90 yards, the shot also broke his leg and he still got almost 200 yards. Not sure a human could do that, and I've treated lots and lots of humans in a combat zone. I will say it was common for them not to know when they were injured, and that includes me. Glad we agree. As I said, he was sentenced to death and he died. End of story.
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Post by Californian on Feb 18, 2014 22:31:24 GMT -6
So despite the popular story about Jimmy Lee Gray (child rapist and murderer) and how he died being a result of a drunken executioner, the simple fact is that apparently his genetic tolerance to the poison was high. Also there is a question whether or not he was actually conscious while he was banging his head against that pole. Ingesting cyanide is not the same as inhaling HCN gas. According to Eaton Metal Products, the company that manufactured all the gas chambers in the U.S., the chamber generates about 7500 PPM (parts per million.) OSHA standards assert that exposure to HCN gas at 100 PPM CAN be lethal. Inhalation of HCN gas immediately disrupts gas exchange in the lungs of CO2 for oxygen. One lungful of HCN gas at 7500 PPM causes almost instant unconscious because of this. Due to this, I believe some mistake was made in mixing the warm water and acid for the pots beneath the chair in Gray's case. When the cyanide pellets hit the acid/water mix, not enough HCN gas was generated to cause quick unconsciousness. Was the executioner drunk? Who knows. However, I DO know that that particular scenario was alleged in a popular novel (and subsequent movie) "The Chamber," by John Grisham. Perhaps fiction became merged with reality, which is often how urban legends, which this may well be, start. As to banging his head while unconsciousness, I don't think so. I saw an interview with his lawyer, who witnessed the execution, who alleged that while banging his head against the pipe, he was also crying out "I'm human! I'm human!" Unconscious people do not apeak. It's more likely he was being dosed with enough HCN to cause him distress while possibly semiconscious. For these reasons, as above, I think it was botched, if that's the right word. After all, he was condemned to death and subsequently died. Ho hum.
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Post by Californian on Feb 18, 2014 19:58:32 GMT -6
One that was particularly grizzly in nature involved a convicted murderer named Jimmy Lee Gray. Unless the state executed a species of bear (ursus horribilis) found primarily in the northern Rocky Mountain states and Alaska, I believe "grisly" is the word you're looking for.
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Post by Californian on Feb 18, 2014 8:17:34 GMT -6
Just finished this one. Nice bunch your compatriots spawned.
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