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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2010 1:36:35 GMT -6
Not as busy as May 2* George Jones Texaswww.tdcj.state.tx.us/statistics/deathrow/drowlist/jonesga.jpgConvicting of shooting a man dead and stealing his vehicle. He has been on death row since 1995 10* Richard Nields OhioClemency has been recommended for this inmate - final decision up to the governor. Apparently because some of the forensic evidence has come under criticism www.newschannel10.com/Global/story.asp?S=12511798On the night of March 27, 1997, Patricia Newsome was found strangled on her kitchen floor. Police arrested Richard 446*446 Nields, defendant-appellant, Newsome's frequent live-in companion, at Newsome's home that night, not long after Springfield Township Police had transported him there. Defendant was indicted for aggravated murder and aggravated robbery, found guilty as charged, and sentenced to death. Prior to 1997, defendant and Patricia Newsome had an on-again, off-again relationship for approximately ten to twelve years. In the year leading up to the murder, they lived together at Newsome's home in Finneytown, Springfield Township, in Hamilton County. Newsome worked as a realtor in Fairfield, and defendant was a keyboard musician who was out of work most of the time. On March 27, 1997, Newsome had lunch with her friend, Dorothy Kiser. Newsome told Kiser that she asked defendant to move out. Even though defendant had packed his clothes in his car in order to move out, "he kept coming back to the house." In the weeks leading up to March 27, defendant would call Newsome with hostile messages. On one occasion, an angry call for Newsome was received by the office receptionist, Floanna Ziegler, from a man identifying himself as a musician. Newsome wrote the incident down and told Ziegler, "I'm trying to file charges against him and I want to document everything that he said to you." During the afternoon of March 27, Dorothy Alvin had a conversation with defendant, who was a stranger to her, at Lulu's bar in Springfield Township. Defendant told Alvin that the lady whose house he lived in was throwing him out. Defendant further told Alvin, "I'd like to kill her, but I guess I won't do that because I don't want to go to prison." Later, during the evening of March 27, Barbara Beck and Patricia Denier were dining at the Briarwood Lounge on Hamilton Avenue. At approximately 10:30 p.m., defendant entered the bar and approached the two women, both of whom he knew. Both women noticed blood on his right hand and asked him what happened. Defendant said to them, "[Y]ou'll hear it on the news tomorrow." Defendant also kept repeating, "I'm in serious, serious trouble." Both women thought that he was in shock and was acting strange. Neither smelled any alcohol on his breath. As Beck and Denier left the lounge, defendant walked them to their car and asked to go with them. After they declined to take defendant with them, defendant told them, "I'm going to be driving home in a Cadillac." They saw defendant walk across the street to a white Cadillac. Friends of Patricia Newsome testified that she owned a white Cadillac but never let anyone else drive it, especially defendant, "because of the way he drank." Anthony Studenka was at DJ's Pub on Winton Road on the night of March 27, a little before midnight and sat down next to a person at the bar who "told me he killed somebody." That person was defendant. Defendant showed Studenka his hands, which had cuts on them, and told Studenka that he had killed some kid who was a drug pusher. Defendant then suddenly became belligerent and started calling Studenka insulting names. Kimberly Brooks, a friend of Studenka, also heard defendant declare that he had killed someone and noticed that defendant had "dried blood all over" his hands. However, defendant then denied that he had killed anyone, and said that he had helped drag the body away. Brooks called 911 to report defendant's statements. 447*447 Springfield Township Police Officer Greg Huber was in front of DJ's Pub when he heard a radio call that a male at the bar was bragging that he had killed someone. Huber encountered defendant inside the bar and asked him to step outside because of the noise. After initially refusing to do so, defendant went outside and spoke with Huber, who then noticed blood on both of defendant's hands. When asked about the blood, defendant told Huber that he was in a fight across the street at Lulu's bar. At that time, Police Sgt. Ken Volz arrived on the scene. Huber then went to Lulu's to investigate and discovered that there had been no fight there. Sgt. Volz and another officer, Clayton Smith, spoke with defendant outside of DJ's Pub. Defendant told the officers that the story of the killing he was telling inside the bar was really about a Clint Eastwood movie. Smith, who was familiar with such movies, asked defendant questions to find out to which movie defendant was referring. However, defendant could not sufficiently answer any of his questions. Sgt. Volz then instructed Smith to drive defendant home due to his "intoxication level." Defendant pointed to the white Cadillac across the way as "his girlfriend's car" that he drove, which Volz learned was registered to Patricia Newsome. Volz then went to Newsome's house on 8527 Pringle Avenue, "to check on [her] well being." When he peered through the front window, he could see that the television and some lights were on, and he could hear the dog barking inside. As Officer Smith drove up to the Pringle Avenue residence with defendant, Sgt. Volz was standing on the front porch area. Defendant "became very uptight and aggressive and verbal and almost yelling" at Smith. Defendant declared that they were not going into the house without a search warrant. Defendant eventually calmed down, and the officers let him enter the house and hoped he would calm down for the night. However, after defendant entered the house, the officers could see defendant through the front window "waving his hands * * * in an erratic fashion." As the officers were leaving, they noticed the door on the attached garage was open. Officer Smith entered the open lit garage and peered in a window that looked into the kitchen. Smith saw "a female * * * on the ground [who] * * * was obviously deceased." The officers went to the front door and saw defendant through the front window still waving his arms. They knocked on the door, and as defendant opened the door, they grabbed his arm, pulled him outside, and handcuffed him. Police arrested defendant and advised him of his Miranda rights. Sgt. Volz entered the house to check on the victim but could not detect a pulse. While defendant was detained in the police cruiser, he kept asking Officer Smith, " s she alive?" During the arrest, police found fifteen traveler's checks in defendant's possession, all of which bore Patricia Newsome's name. Police Chief David Heimpold arrived at the scene and readvised defendant of his Miranda rights. Defendant told Heimpold that he and Newsome had been in an argument. She hit him with the telephone, he then pushed her, and she hit her head on a bookcase. Defendant also mentioned that someone named "Bob" was also there, but shortly thereafter, he admitted that this was a lie. Defendant admitted that he had choked Newsome after they had had a fight. The assistant medical examiner, who performed the autopsy on Newsome, 448*448 concluded that she had died from asphyxia due to manual strangulation. Defendant was incarcerated at the Hamilton County Justice Center. Two days after the murder, he talked with Timothy Griffis, who was serving time that weekend for nonpayment of child support. Defendant told Griffis that "he had killed his girlfriend," that they had argued, and that he "jumped on top of her, started beating her up." Defendant said that he then went to a bar. He came back to Newsome's home to see if she was breathing and started strangling her. He laid the phone on top of Newsome's chest, called her either "*bi+ch*" or "baby," and told her, "Call me from heaven." According to Griffis, defendant at times appeared to be remorseful, but at other times, he exhibited a carefree attitude while recounting the details of the murder. Defendant also told Griffis that he took money, jewelry, and traveler's checks out of Newsome's purse. According to Griffis, defendant was kind of upset because he could not use the traveler's checks. On May 2, 1997, the grand jury indicted defendant for aggravated robbery, aggravated murder with prior calculation and design, and aggravated felony-murder during an aggravated robbery. A death penalty specification attached to the aggravated murder counts alleged that defendant had committed aggravated murder during the aggravated robbery and that he was either the principal offender or committed the aggravated murder with prior calculation and design. R.C. 2929.04(A)(7). Prior to trial, a suppression hearing was held on defendant's motion to suppress defendant's statement to police after he requested an attorney, his statements at DJ's Pub, and his statement to Timothy Griffis because the police entered the curtilage of Newsome's home without a warrant. The trial court denied the motion to suppress, holding that exigent circumstances justified the search of the home. The court further held that defendant's statements to police after he requested an attorney were freely and voluntarily given and that defendant's statement at the Justice Center to Griffis and his statements at the pub were not suppressible. The state called numerous witnesses to establish defendant's guilt before a jury. The defense conceded that defendant had killed Newsome but disputed that defendant had purposefully or "knowingly caused the death of Patricia Newsome" because he was "under the influence of sudden passion * * * and rage." During the trial, Officer Nancy Richter testified that she discovered three pages of yellow legal paper entitled "Record of Abuse" at Newsome's residence while she and Newsome's children were looking for her will several days after the murder. A forensic document examiner with the coroner's office determined that the "Record of Abuse" pages were written by Newsome. Also at trial, Springfield Township Police Officer Paul Rook testified that he responded to a "domestic call" at Newsome's residence on March 1, 1997. At that time, Newsome told Rook that she wanted defendant to leave her home and that she was afraid of him. Rook and another officer took defendant from Newsome's residence until he could find someone else who would come and get him. The defense called one witness. After deliberation, the jury found defendant guilty as charged. At the mitigation hearing, the defense presented three witnesses: defendant's sister, Rochelle Pittman; Dr. Emmett Cooper, psychiatrist and pharmacologist; 449*449 and Assistant Public Defender James Slattery. Pittman chronicled defendant's family life, including the fact that defendant's father was an alcoholic who left the family when defendant was in high school. Pittman also testified that she became friends with Newsome and that a few weeks before the murder, they discussed having defendant committed at Newsome's suggestion. Dr. Cooper testified that defendant was an alcoholic and reviewed the medical ailments that defendant suffered as a result of his alcoholism. Dr. Cooper observed that defendant's time in jail since his arrest represented his longest period of sustained sobriety since 1976. Slattery, an admitted alcoholic, testified as to the deleterious effects of alcohol and how his alcoholism interfered with his ability to do what was best for himself as well as his ability to practice law.
scholar.google.com.au/scholar_case?case=9788937375225345001&q=richard+nields+of+ohio&hl=en&as_sdt=2002
10* John Parker Alabama
John Forrest Parker, 21, became the second person convicted in the March 18 death of Elizabeth Dorlene Sennett, 45, who was found stabbed repeatedly in her Coon Dog Cemetery Road home. Click Here for more archive information. The Jury of 10 men and 2 women deliberated one hour bfore returning the verdict at 7:15 P.M. Jurors who have been staying at a motel since testimony began in the trial Friday, are scheduled to return to Circuit Judge Inge Johnson’s courtroom today at 9 A.M. For a sentencing hearing.
Parker was one of 3 men who were hired by the victim's husband Charles Sennett and were paid $1,000 each. When investigators informed the husband that he was a suspect in his wife’s death, he died from a self inflicted gunshot wound.
The other two men, Billy Gray Williams, 21, and Kenneth Eugene Smith, 22, were charged in the murder. Williams had already been tried and sentenced to life in prison without parole. Smith was later found guilty and sentenced to death. He still remains on death row at Holman Prison.
Witnesses said that Charles Sennett, a minister, was depressive and test showed he may have been manic depressive. His wife had confided to women friends that she feared for her life and that he had beaten her at times, even knocked her down and kicked her.
John Forrest Parker will die from lethal injection, on June 10, 2010. His appeals have been exhausted.
www.examiner.com/x-41056-Birmingham-Crime-Examiner~y2010m4d28-Two-deaths-scheduled-for-Alabamas-death-row-by-State-Supreme-Court
15* David Powell Texas
www.tdcj.state.tx.us/statistics/deathrow/drowlist/powelld.jpg
This man has been on death row since 1978. He is there for gunning down a police officer with a machine gun.
17* Jeffrey Matthews Oklahoma
atthews was convicted and sentenced to death for the Jan. 27, 1994, murder of 77-year-old Otis Earl Short during a robbery of Short's home in McClain County. His 1995 trial was moved to Cleveland County because of pretrial publicity. The 38-year-old Matthews also was convicted of conspiracy to commit first-degree burglary and assault and battery with a deadly weapon. Attorney General Drew Edmondson requested an execution date last month after the U.S. Supreme Court denied
Read more: newsok.com/oklahoma-sets-execution-date-for-jeffrey-matthews/article/3456003#ixzz0oS886wOW 18* Ronnie Lee Gardner Utah----firing squad
I guess this is one for the Death Penalty Enthusiasts
A murderer who has spent 25 years on death row for shooting a man while trying to escape a squad of prison guards was yesterday granted his final wish: the right to death by firing squad.
Ronnie Lee Gardner is the latest embodiment of Utah’s fondness for frontier justice and a public relations nightmare for the state. He will be executed on June 18 by marksmen armed with .30 rifles, aiming at a paper target pinned over his heart.
Utah is the only state in the US to offer death row inmates the choice of a firing squad rather than lethal injection. It is an option that at least four prisoners have indicated that they will take, guaranteeing the state plenty of negative publicity if it proceeds with their executions.
A judge has signed the death warrant, setting in motion a process that will lead to Gardner’s execution in a specially built chair, with a hood to shield him from the sight of the gun barrels and a sloping metal pan to catch his blood. Gardner was sentenced to death in 1985 after being slipped a handgun by a woman accomplice and shooting a lawyer in the head while making a break for freedom.
RELATED LINKS Call for reprieve as death-row Briton's time runs out Why write to a killer on death row? Gardner was already on trial for robbing and murdering a man in a Salt Lake City bar. He came within days of being executed after giving up his right to appeal in the late 1980s but changed his mind and has been fighting his death sentence since.
The last time that a firing squad was used in Utah was in 1996 at the request of John Albert Taylor, who was convicted of the rape and strangulation of a girl, 11. Taylor had insisted on a firing squad because he did not want to “flop around like a dying fish” under a lethal injection. After quoting a line of poetry — “Remember me, but let me go” — he was shot in front of witnesses including a journalist who called it “an honest way to die”.
The only other firing squad execution in Utah since the reinstatement of the death penalty in the US in 1976 was that of Gary Gilmore in 1977.
Capital punishment
— For most of the 20th century the electric chair was the US’s main method of execution. After malfunctions there was a shift towards lethal injection.
— There have been 1,201 executions since 1976 in the US
— Hanging is still allowed in New Hampshire and Washington State. It was last used in the US in 1996 when Delaware hanged Bill Bailey
Not this is a British Source
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7106634.ece
30* Jonathan Green Texas www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/greenjonathan.htm
On death row for the rape and murder of a 12 year old. Offence happened in 2000.
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Post by mst3k4evur on May 20, 2010 10:48:54 GMT -6
Melbert Ford and some of the Kentucky inmates could be joining them.
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Post by mst3k4evur on May 20, 2010 17:11:43 GMT -6
Melbert Ford and some of the Kentucky inmates could be joining them. Sure enough, Ford is set to die on the 9th of June.
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Post by ltdc on May 22, 2010 11:20:00 GMT -6
Ronnie Lee Gardner is the latest embodiment of Utah’s fondness for frontier justice and a public relations nightmare for the state. this is why the lame stream media is so useless. it's not frontier justice, it's just good old effective justice. and it won't be any kind of public relations nightmare for Utah. they tried that BS with the 2002 Olympics, diden't see or hear about one single participant who refused to come. we have some of the best national parks in the country. we could draw and quarter him and people will still come. ::)he won't see the rifles anyway, hood or no hood. he will see the metal pan under the chair when they sit him down before the hood. and with Taylor, there was no blood in the pan only some urine. but when you have no idea what you are talking about this is what you get. [/quote] she has a @$#%!^@$# name, you low life scumbag journalists ooops, an apology to cyclone. as I re-read this it sounds like I'm referring to cyclone instead of the article posted
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Post by spinaltap on May 29, 2010 5:07:51 GMT -6
like to see them all happen in June
2 TX George Jones 9 GA Melbert Ford 10 AL John Forrest Parker 10 OH Richard Nields (clemency recommendation) 15 TX David Lee Powell 17 OK Jeffrey Matthews 18 UT Ronnie Gardner (chose firing squad) 30 TX Jonathan Green
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Post by reapwysow on May 29, 2010 16:55:40 GMT -6
No she does not. According to the posts i have read , victims have no rights , she is a victim not a name. She white or black? thats all that matters. /sarcasm off/
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