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Post by Rev. Agave on Apr 22, 2007 0:27:37 GMT -6
www.chroniclet.com/2007/04/21/filiaggi-seeks-to-halt-his-execution/Filiaggi seeks to halt his execution
Brad Dicken | The Chronicle-Telegram
State Supreme Court will consider request for stay
James Filiaggi has said for months he’s prepared to die and wouldn’t try to stop his execution slated for Tuesday.
Apparently, he’s changed his mind.
On Friday, Filiaggi’s attorneys filed requests with the Ohio Supreme Court and the U.S. District Court in Southern Ohio seeking to stop the execution, saying that “after a period of indecision’’
Filiaggi now wants to join a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Ohio’s execution methods on the grounds it’s cruel and unusual.
In his motion, Jeffrey Gamso, one of Filiaggi’s attorneys, said that the lethal injection method used by the state would “cause him to be tortured to death.”
The drugs used in the procedure will leave the 41-year-old “conscious, but trapped in a paralyzed body wracked with the pain of suffocation and a heart attack,” Gamso wrote.
The turnabout was surprising in that it came after Filiaggi steadfastly refused to ask either the Ohio Parole Board or Gov. Ted Strickland to spare him of the sentence that was handed down after being convicted of the 1994 shooting death of his former wife, Lisa Filiaggi.
The Parole Board recommended earlier this year that Filiaggi, who told them he was ready to die and wouldn’t beg for his life, not be granted clemency. And Thursday, Strickland announced that he agreed with the Parole Board and would allow Filiaggi’s sentence to be carried out.
The filing throws into question whether the execution will take place Tuesday. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections spokeswoman Andrea Dean said the prison system will move forward with the execution process until told to stop.
Ohio Supreme Court spokesman Chris Davey said the court is considering Filiaggi’s request for an emergency stay of execution.
Meanwhile, the federal court is expected to rule Monday whether Filiaggi should be allowed to join the 2004 lawsuit filed by death row inmate Richard Cooey, who was sentenced to death for the 1986 rape and murder of two women, including one from North Ridgeville.
Deputy First Attorney General Brian Laliberte said Friday that the federal court will consider arguments from both sides that must be filed over the weekend. He said if Filiaggi is granted a reprieve by the U.S. District Court, the state will appeal to the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. If it loses there, it will appeal again to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Filiaggi’s attorneys did not return calls seeking comment Friday, but Laliberte said he assumes they will similarly appeal if the decision doesn’t go their way. He said he didn’t know if that complicated legal process can be completed by the scheduled 10 a.m. execution time on Tuesday.
“If past experience teaches us anything, it’s that a delay on Tuesday could happen,” he said.
Kenneth Lieux, one of Filiaggi’s trial attorneys, expressed relief that his former client had renewed his efforts to avoid execution. Lieux said the death penalty has no place in a civilized society.
“The eye-for-an-eye stuff doesn’t serve any societal purpose,” he said.
During the original trial, Lieux said, he and now county Common Pleas Judge James Burge argued that Filiaggi suffered from a serotonin imbalance. Without that “filter” on his emotions, Lieux said, Filiaggi was incapable of telling right from wrong.
While it wasn’t exactly an insanity defense, it raised questions about Filiaggi’s mental health that could have prevailed during the appeals process, Lieux said.
Jackie Rentas, Burge’s longtime secretary and one of those Filiaggi is scheduled to visit with this weekend, said she was surprised Filiaggi had decided to renew his efforts to stay alive.
He has repeatedly told her during phone calls and letters from the Mansfield Correctional Institution cell where he spends 23 hours a day that he was ready to die.
“I don’t want him to go because he’s my friend, but I wouldn’t want to live like that,” she said.
Rentas said Filiaggi committed a crime, but it’s not up to the state to execute him.
“I truly love Jim Filiaggi,” she said. “It’s wrong what he did; I can’t condone what he did, but he’s still a human being.”
Georgette Huff, Lisa Filiaggi’s stepmother and the widow of her father, Richard Huff, said Thursday that her husband wanted Filiaggi to die for killing his daughter. Richard Huff never liked Filiaggi, she said.
“The moment Rick laid eyes on him, the hairs on the back of his neck stood up,” she said.
Huff said James Filiaggi’s killing of Lisa left wounds in the family that will never heal.
“She was just so enthusiastic,” she said. “She just always had a sense of possibility.”
Contact Brad Dicken at 329-7147
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Post by Moonbeam on Apr 22, 2007 6:10:10 GMT -6
Things are so bad on deathrow, they still want to fight on. He was ready to die till it started to feel like reality.
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Post by zd3925 on Apr 22, 2007 7:55:38 GMT -6
 >:(Stuff like this makes me so mad all I can say is what a POS!!!
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Post by Lisa on Apr 22, 2007 9:38:40 GMT -6
What he did.....
James Filiaggi and Lisa Huff married in December 1991. There were two daughters born during the marriage. Lisa filed for divorce in August 1992, and the divorce was granted in February 1993. Lisa received custody of the children, although Filiaggi had visitation rights. Filiaggi was required to pay child support. Relations between Filiaggi and Lisa were strained. In the spring of 1993, Lisa and the two children moved into the home of Eric Beiswenger. In the fall of 1993, Lisa and Eric became engaged, and shortly thereafter, became the victims of telephone harassment and vandalism. Eric and Lisa suspected that Filiaggi was responsible for the acts, and set up video cameras hoping to capture him on tape. Lisa also carried a tape recorder with her. In the fall of 1993, Lisa and Eric recorded a phone conversation in which Filiaggi told Lisa that there are going to be "more headaches and heartaches if she tries to get more money out of him." Lisa Filiaggi had wondered aloud to her family about when authorities would take her complaints seriously. "What's it going to take?" she asked her sister. "One of us dead?" The 27-year-old mother of two tried for months to stop an obsessive ex-husband from harassing her. She told police that he sprayed tear gas on her car and threw a can of motor oil and rocks through her front window. But there was never enough evidence to prosecute. On December 19, 1993, Lisa and Eric went to the home of Filiaggi’s parents to pick up the children after a visit. Lisa carried a tape recorder in her pocket, which recorded the incident. Filiaggi and Lisa were arguing while Filiaggi put one child in a car seat in the back seat of the vehicle. After putting the child in the seat, Filiaggi grabbed Lisa around the neck and she began screaming. Eric, who was outside the vehicle, grabbed Filiaggi by the waist and pulled him off her. Filiaggi turned around and struck Eric in the face numerous times. Eric suffered multiple broken bones in his face. The assault ended when Filiaggi’s mother came out, grabbed Filiaggi, and yelled at him to stop. The recording of the incident was admitted into evidence. Eric and Lisa pressed charges against Filiaggi, and he was arrested and indicted for felonious assault and domestic violence. He was released on bond awaiting trial. The picture window to Eric’s house was also broken on numerous occasions. On January 20, 1994, the last time there was an attempt to break the window, the video camera recorded the incident and clearly showed Filiaggi as the person throwing a bottle at the window. Charges were filed against Filiaggi for attempted vandalism, criminal trespassing, and intimidation of a witness. Two days later, Filiaggi purchased a 9mm Luger pistol, which had two clips for ammunition. He also purchased ammunition for the weapon, despite the fact that he already possessed another gun. According to the defense theory, he intended to go to Lisa’s house and kill himself in front of her. On January 24, 1994, Filiaggi took a $1,000 cash advance on his Visa card. He left six to seven hundred dollars with his girlfriend, Tracey. At approximately 10:45 p.m., the Lorain Police Department dispatcher received a call from Lisa. The call was tape-recorded. Lisa told the dispatcher that her ex-husband, Filiaggi, was at her back door and was breaking into her house. Filiaggi broke down the door and entered the house. Still carrying the telephone, Lisa fled out the front door. A neighbor named Robert who lived two doors away saw Lisa standing in the yard of the intervening neighbor and frantically looking around. Another neighbor was awakened by someone screaming, "God help me, someone, please, help me, he’s going to kill me." Lisa saw Robert looking out the window and ran towards his front door. He let her in, and Lisa told him that her ex-husband was after her with a gun. She looked petrified and ran past him while Robert locked the door behind her. Moments later, Robert heard a couple of bangs on the door and the door came crashing in. Filiaggi had a gun in his hand and asked Robert where she went. Robert said he did not know, and Filiaggi told Robert to help find her. They both started down the hallway. When they came to a linen closet, with the door partially open, Filiaggi opened the door and found Lisa. Filiaggi was very angry and pulled Lisa from the closet by the arm and swung her into the bathroom, which was across the hall from the closet. There was a struggle. Robert heard Filiaggi tell Lisa, "This will teach you to *f---* with me," and then heard two shots fired. Although shot in the shoulder, Lisa was able to get away and run across the hallway into one of the bedrooms. Robert, standing partially in one of the bedrooms, was pleading with Filiaggi not to shoot her. Robert was in another bedroom and Filiaggi told Robert to close the bedroom door and stay out. Robert again heard Filiaggi tell Lisa, "This will teach you not to *f---* with me" and heard two more shots. Robert then heard footsteps down the hallway. Robert came out of the bedroom and saw Lisa slumped against the wall. She had been shot in the head. Robert attempted to call 911, but noticed a policeman coming through his front door. About twenty minutes away, in Amherst Township, Lisa’s stepfather Delbert, was watching the news. At 11:15 p.m., he heard pounding at the front door. While he had a motion detector light on the side of the trailer, it was not on and the area outside the door was dark. He was home alone and had previously been vandalized, so he picked up a can of red pepper spray and went to the door. He opened the door about three inches and saw Filiaggi. Filiaggi then bashed the door in. Filiaggi came in the house and said, "Are you ready to die?" Delbert saw a gun in Filiaggi’s right hand. Filiaggi brought the gun up to shoot Delbert and said, "I’m going to kill you." Delbert sprayed Filiaggi in the face with the pepper spray, and Filiaggi shot at him twice, but did not hit him. Delbert managed to get out of the trailer, without a coat or shoes. He ran to four separate trailers, knocking on doors, finally gaining admittance to the fourth one where he was able to call 911. He tried to call Lisa, but was shaking too badly. On the morning of January 25, 1994, between 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m., Filiaggi arrived at the home of a college friend. Filiaggi asked if he could "crash," and he laid down on the couch. The college friend took his girlfriend to work later that morning. His girlfriend later called him and told him that Filiaggi had killed Lisa. The man confronted Filiaggi about it. Filiaggi got up off the couch and a gun fell to the floor. Filiaggi then left the house. On January 27, 1994, Filiaggi took another $1,000 cash advance. Filiaggi fled the state, but returned to Lorain, when he discovered that his parents may lose their house which had been put up for his bond on the previous charges. Filiaggi had rented a car at the Pittsburgh Airport that was later recovered in an area near Filiaggi’s parents’ home. The car contained the rental agreement as well as several rounds of 9 mm ammunition. The murder weapon was never found. Filiaggi entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, claiming a poor diet was what caused him to react violently; the so-called "Twinkie defense." He also waived his right to be tried by a jury. A three-judge panel heard the evidence presented on all charges. The three-judge panel entered its verdict on the aggravated murder charge, but only the presiding judge entered a verdict on the remaining charges. The three-judge panel found Filiaggi guilty of aggravated murder and the three capital specifications: the offense was committed for the purpose of escaping detection, apprehension, trial, or punishment for another offense committed by Filiaggi; the offense was part of a course of conduct involving the purposeful killing of or attempt to kill two or more persons by Filiaggi; and the victim of the offense was a witness to prior offenses by Filiaggi and was purposely killed to prevent her testimony in a criminal proceeding concerning those prior offenses. The case proceeded to the penalty phase and the panel sentenced Filiaggi to death.
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Post by Lady on Apr 22, 2007 16:50:00 GMT -6
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Post by Kay on Apr 22, 2007 21:09:23 GMT -6
The article states:
On December 19, 1993, Lisa and Eric went to the home of Filiaggi’s parents to pick up the children after a visit. Lisa carried a tape recorder in her pocket, which recorded the incident. Filiaggi and Lisa were arguing while Filiaggi put one child in a car seat in the back seat of the vehicle. After putting the child in the seat, Filiaggi grabbed Lisa around the neck and she began screaming. Eric, who was outside the vehicle, grabbed Filiaggi by the waist and pulled him off her. Filiaggi turned around and struck Eric in the face numerous times. Eric suffered multiple broken bones in his face. The assault ended when Filiaggi’s mother came out, grabbed Filiaggi, and yelled at him to stop. The recording of the incident was admitted into evidence. Eric and Lisa pressed charges against Filiaggi, and he was arrested and indicted for felonious assault and domestic violence. He was released on bond awaiting trial. The picture window to Eric’s house was also broken on numerous occasions. On January 20, 1994, the last time there was an attempt to break the window, the video camera recorded the incident and clearly showed Filiaggi as the person throwing a bottle at the window. Charges were filed against Filiaggi for attempted vandalism, criminal trespassing, and intimidation of a witness. Two days later, Filiaggi purchased a 9mm Luger pistol, which had two clips for ammunition. He also purchased ammunition for the weapon, despite the fact that he already possessed another gun.
How was he able to purchase a gun, no back ground checks in Ohio? I only wish Lisa would have purchased one.
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Post by rosebud on Apr 23, 2007 1:07:07 GMT -6
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Post by Lotus Flower on Apr 23, 2007 7:15:21 GMT -6
B@stard. Utterly spiteful POS. I hope they do not let him live.
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Post by Lady on Apr 23, 2007 13:19:51 GMT -6
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Post by Lotus Flower on Apr 23, 2007 17:49:03 GMT -6
Thanks for posting the Order. I prefer to read that to see what the reasoning was. It sounds like they are basing it on a technicality which they have also denied others from intervening in the lethal injection case. I don't see anything in any of the reports that say why he changed his mind. Sounds like it will be too late though. |
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Post by Jen on Apr 23, 2007 18:40:53 GMT -6
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Post by Lotus Flower on Apr 23, 2007 19:28:14 GMT -6
This is the type of disgraceful BS I see when I do "court watch." These POS get the lightest sentence you can imagine. These victims of DV come into court frightend for their lives...literally...once the stalking and the harrasment starts their lives are truely in danger. These judges that I watch handing down 90 day sentences on a 2nd charge of stalking and or harrasment end up suspending 60 days. Then the abuser stands there pissing and moaning that they will lose there job. So then the judge gives them work release and there the victim is shaking in her shoes!!! It's dispicable. Unfortunately they do not understand that the "danger factor" actually heightens when a victim leaves...this is why most stay...she knows what to expect more so when she stays in the relationship...Being stalked is one of the most dangerous positions to be in. These pos need to know that stalking will not and (should not) be tolerated Each and every one of us should have "the right" to move on with out harrasment!!!! Period the end!!!!! My prayers go out to the victims and their families!!!!!  Restraining Orders rarely work. The offender will always find a way around them. Even if it doesn't end in murder, they still stalk you, they never stop. |
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Post by onetwobomb on Apr 23, 2007 20:15:31 GMT -6
It looks like we will finally have an execution from a state other than Texas. BTW, he changed his mind again, and now wants to be executed again. Not that it matters, since he's been denied by the courts.
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Post by Lotus Flower on Apr 23, 2007 20:26:20 GMT -6
Killer says he's ready for execution Filiaggi discusses shooting ex-wife
Posted by Plain Dealer file April 20, 2007 12:06PM
Byline: Reginald Fields and Mark Puente
Publication Date: 2007/01/26 12:00:00 AM
James Filiaggi says he is ready to die. And his youngest daughter wants him dead, too, for executing her mother 13 years ago.
Fourteen-year-old Jasmin Filiaggi expressed her wish in a handwritten letter to the Ohio Parole Board, which met Thursday to consider whether James Filiaggi's death sentence should be commuted to life in prison. He is scheduled to be lethally injected April 24.
"My opinion to death is whatever the killer or person did wrong to another person should be done to them. Take my dad, he shot my mom. So I think he should be shot," Jasmin wrote.
"I have no sympathy for him, and what needs to be done is accepted by me. I agree with everything."
The letter was news to Filiaggi, who sat down with The Plain Dealer on Thursday for a one-hour interview at the Mansfield Correctional Facility.
Filiaggi intended to make calls Thursday night to find out what Jasmin wrote.
Filiaggi, a college graduate with an accounting degree, shot ex-wife Lisa point-blank in 1994. It was a crime that gripped Lorain County for years.
Women's advocates still use the case to illustrate that anyone, regardless of pedigree, can become an abuser.
In the days leading to Jan. 24, 1994, Lisa Filiaggi caught her ex-husband on videotape creeping up to her house in the dark. She had suspected him of vandalism, and now police had the evidence to arrest him.
Before they could find him, Filiaggi got to his wife on that January night, bursting through a back door in Lorain with a gun as she made a desperate 9-1-1 call. The children were also home.
Lisa Filiaggi ran out a front door and into a neighbor's house. He forced his way into that house, told the neighbor to hide in a bedroom and then shot his ex-wife in the head as she cowered on a bedroom floor. Witnesses said he told her, "This will teach you to [expletive] with me."
The parole board was Filiaggi's last chance to plead for his life. But he has told anyone who will listen -- including a parole board official and a Plain Dealer reporter last week -- that he wants to die.
His attorneys, Jeffrey Gamso and Spiros Cocoves, were given an hour to make a case for clemency. Cocoves took all of about five seconds to tell the board, "We have nothing to say."
In his interview with The Plain Dealer, Filiaggi spoke in a slow, quiet drawl and said:
He knows he is going to heaven and can't wait to get there.
He wishes his life were not defined by "one misdeed." He would like to be remembered for accomplishments such as achieving the rank of sergeant in the Army and graduating from Ohio University with honors and a triple major.
He was a death penalty supporter until he went to prison. Now, he thinks it is appropriate for him but not for others.
He will not speak ill of Lisa Filiaggi. He described her as a good person who didn't deserve to die, but he referred several times to "things that went on" in their soured relationship.
"I can never apologize enough, especially to my girls," he said.
Jasmin and her older sister, Alexis, 15, are being raised by an uncle and aunt. Filiaggi would not discuss how much contact he has with them or how their mother's murder affects them.
"My girls are my world," Filiaggi said, smiling.
Filiaggi had been scheduled to be executed Feb. 13. But last week, Gov. Ted Strickland, who took office Jan. 8, said he would need more time to review Filiaggi's case and that of two other death row inmates. He postponed their executions.
Filiaggi described his crime as "surreal" and an "out-of-body" experience, as if he watched someone else do it.
In a steady voice, Filiaggi described following Lisa Filiaggi to the neighbor's house. They struggled for the gun, he said, and she was shot accidentally in the shoulder. Then, "I walked up behind her, put it to the back of her head and pulled the trigger," Filiaggi said. "It had to be a dream. I can't believe it happened like that."
Lisa and her fiance, Eric Beiswenger, were to marry in September 1994. Instead, she was buried in her pink wedding dress.
Filiaggi's attorney, James Burge, is now a Lorain County Common Pleas judge. He raised an insanity defense during the trial, blaming Filiaggi's behavior on an untreated chemical imbalance in his brain.
Burge also sought a new trial on the grounds that Filiaggi was shocked during the trial by the electric stun belt he had to wear as security. Burge claimed unsuccessfully that the shock left Filiaggi mumbling in the courtroom and unable to participate in his defense.
Judge Edward Zaleski ruled that Filiaggi was faking mental illness during the trial.
Today, Filiaggi says medical tests proved he had a disorder, but he insists that he takes responsibility for his actions.
"I've done the unspeakable," he said. "I flipped a lot of people's worlds upside down."
Eric Beiswenger, Lisa Filiaggi's fiance, and his father, Fred, addressed the parole board on Thursday. Eric showed a seven-minute DVD of home videos showing Lisa Filiaggi in happy times with her two daughters.
"Justice needs to be served. He needs to die. The law needs to be upheld," Eric Beiswenger said. "My life has been on hold waiting for him to take his last breath."
A counselor read a letter from Lisa's Filiaggi's mother, Ellen Jane Harris, who now lives in Florida. She also wants Filiaggi dead.
The parole board will deliver its clemency report to Strickland on Thursday.
Meanwhile, Burge plans to attend the execution. "It will be a sad day for me as his friend," he said.
Cindy Hayes attended Ohio University with Filiaggi and renewed their friendship about 18 months ago.
During a visit last year, she said, she expected to see a coldblooded monster.
"He is the exact same guy" he was at OU, Hayes said in a telephone interview from Florida.
Filiaggi called death row an existence rather than a life. Religious faith has helped him deal with the emotional toll, he said.
"I'm ready," he said of his execution. "Bring it on."
To reach this Plain Dealer reporter: rfields@plaind.com, 800-228-8272 mpuente@plaind.com, 440-324-3773
Freaking accountants...they're psycho stalkers. JMHO
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2007 5:18:12 GMT -6
Welp let the countdown begin!
Tick Tock Tick Tock Tick Tock...
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Post by Kay on Apr 24, 2007 6:40:57 GMT -6
So Lisa did everything in her power to change her life and escape from this monster, and yet she was still murdered. I guess sometimes, leaving doesn't work.
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Post by Rev. Agave on Apr 24, 2007 9:25:27 GMT -6
His corpse should be turning cold by now.
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Post by Lady on Apr 24, 2007 9:29:27 GMT -6
His corpse should be turning cold by now. Has anyone heard anything ? |
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Post by Rev. Agave on Apr 24, 2007 9:31:21 GMT -6
His corpse should be turning cold by now. Has anyone heard anything ? Not yet. It usually takes TX 45 minutes to an hour after the deed before it is posted. I assume it will be similar in OH. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2007 9:42:50 GMT -6
He's finished
Filiaggi is dead
Posted by Donna J. Miller and Mark Puente April 24, 2007 10:31AM
Categories: Breaking News
James Filiaggi was executed at 11:23 a.m.
He apologized for "flipping everybody's world upside down," and said "this is fine for me. I think the end is something new and wonderful."
Filiaggi also asked his family and friends to take good care of his daughters.
He had been in good spirits all morning, prison officials said.
He didn't sleep last night. He talked by telephone to his family and friends from 9:07 p.m. to 5:34 a.m. He ate waffles with syrup, orange juice, apple juice and coffee for breakfast. He was offered a medication to calm his nerves. He said he didn't need it.
The 41-year-old Lorain County man has been on death row since 1994, when he shot his ex-wife in the head.
Filiaggi's mother, father, sister, attorney and minister met with him this morning.
His death was witnessed by Lisa Filiaggi's mother, Lisa's fiancee and a cousin.
Several of Filiaggi's college friends had planned to attend, along with his minister and attorney. His two teenage daughters will not be there.
Six news reporters also witnessed the execution
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Post by Rev. Agave on Apr 24, 2007 9:52:37 GMT -6
He's finished Filiaggi is dead Posted by Donna J. Miller and Mark Puente April 24, 2007 10:31AM Categories: Breaking News James Filiaggi was executed at 11:23 a.m. He apologized for "flipping everybody's world upside down," and said "this is fine for me. I think the end is something new and wonderful." Filiaggi also asked his family and friends to take good care of his daughters. He had been in good spirits all morning, prison officials said. He didn't sleep last night. He talked by telephone to his family and friends from 9:07 p.m. to 5:34 a.m. He ate waffles with syrup, orange juice, apple juice and coffee for breakfast. He was offered a medication to calm his nerves. He said he didn't need it. The 41-year-old Lorain County man has been on death row since 1994, when he shot his ex-wife in the head. Filiaggi's mother, father, sister, attorney and minister met with him this morning. His death was witnessed by Lisa Filiaggi's mother, Lisa's fiancee and a cousin. Several of Filiaggi's college friends had planned to attend, along with his minister and attorney. His two teenage daughters will not be there. Six news reporters also witnessed the execution Beautiful. |
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Post by zd3925 on Apr 24, 2007 10:01:03 GMT -6
 ;)another victim of his own actions.
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Post by Jen on Apr 24, 2007 10:06:29 GMT -6
This is the type of disgraceful BS I see when I do "court watch." These POS get the lightest sentence you can imagine. These victims of DV come into court frightend for their lives...literally...once the stalking and the harrasment starts their lives are truely in danger. These judges that I watch handing down 90 day sentences on a 2nd charge of stalking and or harrasment end up suspending 60 days. Then the abuser stands there pissing and moaning that they will lose there job. So then the judge gives them work release and there the victim is shaking in her shoes!!! It's dispicable. Unfortunately they do not understand that the "danger factor" actually heightens when a victim leaves...this is why most stay...she knows what to expect more so when she stays in the relationship...Being stalked is one of the most dangerous positions to be in. These pos need to know that stalking will not and (should not) be tolerated Each and every one of us should have "the right" to move on with out harrasment!!!! Period the end!!!!! My prayers go out to the victims and their families!!!!! Restraining Orders rarely work. The offender will always find a way around them. Even if it doesn't end in murder, they still stalk you, they never stop. You are absolutely right Shelli...these *deleted* are so controlling they will stop at nothing. Restraining orders up the anti considerably. Once the victim leaves the danger factor sky rockets. Add to that a restraining order and it doubles. Once in a blue moon someone will get arrested and it stops...but very rarely. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2007 14:09:36 GMT -6
This dude must have felt like a total schmuck! He tried to play the tough guy angle, only to wuss out in the end, and by so doing blew the chance of getting a guaranteed stay. If only all the inmates were this stupid!
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