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The US Executions / Death Row Thread
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Up next - Billy Ray IRICK
Execution date: 7 October 2014
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: Rape - Sodomy
Number of victims: 1
Date of murder: April 15, 1985
Date of arrest: Next day
Date of birth: August 26, 1958
Victim profile: Paula Kay Dyer, 7
Method of murder: Suffocation
Location: Knox County, Tennessee, USA
Status: Sentenced to death on December 3, 1986
Billy Ray Irick was convicted for the 1985 rape and murder of 7 year old Paula Dyer in Knoxville.
Its about time, on death row wasting taxpayer money almost 30 years. Hope he has a slow and painful death.
Execution date: 7 October 2014
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: Rape - Sodomy
Number of victims: 1
Date of murder: April 15, 1985
Date of arrest: Next day
Date of birth: August 26, 1958
Victim profile: Paula Kay Dyer, 7
Method of murder: Suffocation
Location: Knox County, Tennessee, USA
Status: Sentenced to death on December 3, 1986
Billy Ray Irick was convicted for the 1985 rape and murder of 7 year old Paula Dyer in Knoxville.
Its about time, on death row wasting taxpayer money almost 30 years. Hope he has a slow and painful death.
daveza
Honorary Master
Unless you are innocent.
Hence including Conviction in my post.
Yes, coz they keep them alive so long. So far YTD average years from sentence to execution is 17 years.
One last family visit and off to the chamber, that's how it should be. As a convicted murderer you should immediately cease to have the right to any civil rights whatsoever.
Progenix Oj101
Dealer
So death even if you're innocent just because you were convicted? There's a reason you can appeal, no judicial system is perfect.
daveza
Honorary Master
Anyone on death row is already convicted - that doesn't mean they aren't innocent.
Progenix Oj101
Dealer
I bet you wouldn't have the same attitude if a loved one was wrongly convicted and executed.
daveza
Honorary Master
Until you or one of your family becomes a casualty.
daveza
Honorary Master
Which crimes would you advocate the death penalty for ?
Murder, rape ?
How about those that destroy lives without actually involving a killing ?
Would you execute priests who prey on children ?
How about J Arthur Brown - doesn't he deserve to be killed for destroying so many lives - including those who committed suicide as a result of his actions ?
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
DEATH ROW INMATE FREED AFTER YEARS BEHIND BARS
A man convicted of murder and awaiting execution was exonerated and walked free Wednesday after nine years behind bars in Texas, anti-death penalty groups said.
Manuel Velez was arrested in 2005 and convicted in 2008 of murdering his girlfriend's one-year-old son.
His latest attorneys, however, found that Velez, could not have been responsible for the injuries that killed the boy, since he was working a construction job in the state of Tennessee 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) away, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Velez, a functionally illiterate Spanish speaker with an IQ of 65, signed a written confession in English he did not understand; his former lawyer also did not point out that his girlfriend had a history of child abuse.
"Manuel never belonged in prison, let alone on death row waiting to be executed. He is indisputably innocent," said Velez's attorney, Brian Stull of the ACLU's Capital Punishment Project.
"My joy for him and his family today is tinged with sadness for the years our criminal justice system stole from him, all because he was too poor to afford better counsel than the lawyer the state appointed to him."
"We should be ashamed of the errors that put Manuel on the brink of execution. He is far from the only innocent person to receive a death sentence," said Stull.
"A recent study estimated that, conservatively, 1 in every 25 people sentenced to death in the United States is innocent. In such a broken system of justice, we are foolish and cruel to continue capital punishment."
According to Death Penalty Information Center's director Richard Dieter: "the release of former death row inmate Manuel Velez in Texas today underscores the many problems that continue to plague the death penalty and the ongoing risk of executing the innocent.
His "case contained a litany of injustices, including police misconduct, prosecutorial deception, ineffectiveness of defense counsel, and untruthful witnesses.
"The death of a child because of abuse is a terrible tragedy, but evidence uncovered after Mr. Velez's trial in 2008 indicates the abuse occurred when he was a thousand miles away."
The DPIC has tallied 146 death row inmates whose convictions have been overturned and who have been freed since 1973 -- including 10 in Texas.
Source : Sapa-AFP /mjs
Date : 09 Oct 2014 02:23
A man convicted of murder and awaiting execution was exonerated and walked free Wednesday after nine years behind bars in Texas, anti-death penalty groups said.
Manuel Velez was arrested in 2005 and convicted in 2008 of murdering his girlfriend's one-year-old son.
His latest attorneys, however, found that Velez, could not have been responsible for the injuries that killed the boy, since he was working a construction job in the state of Tennessee 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) away, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Velez, a functionally illiterate Spanish speaker with an IQ of 65, signed a written confession in English he did not understand; his former lawyer also did not point out that his girlfriend had a history of child abuse.
"Manuel never belonged in prison, let alone on death row waiting to be executed. He is indisputably innocent," said Velez's attorney, Brian Stull of the ACLU's Capital Punishment Project.
"My joy for him and his family today is tinged with sadness for the years our criminal justice system stole from him, all because he was too poor to afford better counsel than the lawyer the state appointed to him."
"We should be ashamed of the errors that put Manuel on the brink of execution. He is far from the only innocent person to receive a death sentence," said Stull.
"A recent study estimated that, conservatively, 1 in every 25 people sentenced to death in the United States is innocent. In such a broken system of justice, we are foolish and cruel to continue capital punishment."
According to Death Penalty Information Center's director Richard Dieter: "the release of former death row inmate Manuel Velez in Texas today underscores the many problems that continue to plague the death penalty and the ongoing risk of executing the innocent.
His "case contained a litany of injustices, including police misconduct, prosecutorial deception, ineffectiveness of defense counsel, and untruthful witnesses.
"The death of a child because of abuse is a terrible tragedy, but evidence uncovered after Mr. Velez's trial in 2008 indicates the abuse occurred when he was a thousand miles away."
The DPIC has tallied 146 death row inmates whose convictions have been overturned and who have been freed since 1973 -- including 10 in Texas.
Source : Sapa-AFP /mjs
Date : 09 Oct 2014 02:23
Sheesh, talk about a huge piece of evidence.
And I'll wager that neither the police nor the prosecutor are charged/censured in any way at all.
daveza
Honorary Master
Some would have been happy for him to be executed - for the greater good.
Nope.
The_Assimilator
Executive Member
Yes, in cases of repeat offence. For single offences, it must be considered if the perpetrator can be rehabilitated. However, those who use others' trust to murder or rape those others, should be put to death immediately.
Yes. In some ways they are more vile than murderers and rapists, because they have betrayed not only their victims, but their own God, and hence cannot be trusted in any way, shape or form.
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes! If you deliberately kill 1 person you get life imprisonment minimum, yet Brown's deliberate enrichment of himself - knowingly at the expense of others - caused far more misery than a single death. And yet his sentence is a mere 3 years in prison. How is that just?
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
TEXAS EXECUTES 10TH DEATH ROW INMATE THIS YEAR
A man convicted of three murders was put to death in Texas Tuesday, in the state's tenth execution this year, after the US Supreme Court rejected a final appeal, authorities said.
Miguel Paredes, 32, who spent 13 years awaiting execution, was declared dead at 1854 (2354 GMT) after a lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, said Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark.
Paredes had been convicted of killing three members of a rival gang in 2000.
"Father please accept my soul. I am sorry," were among his last words, Clark said.
Authorities did not disclose the drug protocol used in the execution. There has been considerable controversy in recent months over US executions involving lethal injections going wrong.
US states using the death penalty are facing critical shortages of the anesthetic pentobarbital after European firms stopped supplying it.
The shortage has prompted many states to turn to unregulated compounding pharmacies to supply the drug instead.
Death penalty opponents allege that three recent US executions -- which left inmates suffering far longer than the typical 10-minute timeframe -- amounted to a form of torture or the "cruel and unusual" punishment forbidden by the US Constitution.
Eighteen US states have abolished the death penalty, but 32 others -- and the federal government -- maintain the practice. Surveys indicate that it retains majority support among the US public.
Source : Sapa-AFP /gm
Date : 29 Oct 2014 03:32
A man convicted of three murders was put to death in Texas Tuesday, in the state's tenth execution this year, after the US Supreme Court rejected a final appeal, authorities said.
Miguel Paredes, 32, who spent 13 years awaiting execution, was declared dead at 1854 (2354 GMT) after a lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, said Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark.
Paredes had been convicted of killing three members of a rival gang in 2000.
"Father please accept my soul. I am sorry," were among his last words, Clark said.
Authorities did not disclose the drug protocol used in the execution. There has been considerable controversy in recent months over US executions involving lethal injections going wrong.
US states using the death penalty are facing critical shortages of the anesthetic pentobarbital after European firms stopped supplying it.
The shortage has prompted many states to turn to unregulated compounding pharmacies to supply the drug instead.
Death penalty opponents allege that three recent US executions -- which left inmates suffering far longer than the typical 10-minute timeframe -- amounted to a form of torture or the "cruel and unusual" punishment forbidden by the US Constitution.
Eighteen US states have abolished the death penalty, but 32 others -- and the federal government -- maintain the practice. Surveys indicate that it retains majority support among the US public.
Source : Sapa-AFP /gm
Date : 29 Oct 2014 03:32