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Poetic justice?
Inmate Recites Poem Minutes Before Execution
LAST UPDATE: 4/21/2005 11:26:46 AM
Posted By: Dale Blasingame
An animated and upbeat condemned murderer Douglas Roberts went to his death Wednesday night smiling and with a poem.
Strapped to the Texas death chamber gurney in Huntsville, Roberts was asked if he had any last words before lethal drugs were pumped into his arms. He replied: "I've been hanging around this Popsicle stand way too long. ... When I die, bury me deep, lay two speakers at my feet, put some headphones on my head and rock and roll me when I'm dead."
The 42-year-old was executed tonight for abducting and fatally stabbing a San Antonio man whose car he stole nine years ago while he was high on cocaine. As five relatives of victim Jerry Lewis Velez watched through a window, Roberts repeatedly smiled and mouthed "I loved you" to friends watching through another window.
Once the drugs took effect, however, he gasped and sputtered. Eight minutes later he was pronounced dead, making him the fifth Texas inmate executed this year.
Poetic justice?
JC will be here all week, Ladies and Gentlemen.... and please remember to tip your waitresses...
only 5th this year? that's suprising....
this is a good website for texas executions, the last statments, and offenses...
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bad ass link!
Florida Prosecutors Say Lunsford Was Buried Alive
TAMPA, Fla. (April 21) - A 9-year-old girl who was found dead last month had been raped and bound and may have been buried alive behind the mobile home where her alleged killer was living, state prosecutors said in newly released do ents.
Jessica Lunsford's body was found March 19 buried, sitting and clutching a purple stuffed dolphin just 150 yards from her house in sassa, about 60 miles north of Tampa, according to the do ents released Wednesday.
The body was wrapped in two plastic trash bags knotted at her head and feet in a grave covered by a mound of leaves, the state attorney's office said in the do ents.
Jessica was found wearing shorts and a shirt - different from the pink nightgown her family said she was wearing when they reported her missing Feb. 24, the do ents show.
Detective David Strickland wrote that Jessica's hands appeared to be bound in front of her with speaker wire. Strickland also wrote that a medical examiner noted signs of sexual battery.
Jessica died of asphyxiation, according to a coroner's report. A convicted sex offender, John Evander Couey, 46, is charged in her slaying. He has pleaded not guilty.
Officials said they believe Jessica may have been alive in Couey's home while police and volunteers searched for her. After she was killed, Couey fled to Georgia.
A message left for Couey's attorney was not immediately returned Wednesday evening.
Couey told investigators where to find the grave. He has a home elsewhere in sassa, but sometimes stayed with a half-sister in the mobile home where Jessica's body was found, authorities said.
Prosecutors said Couey told them his half-sister and two others living in the mobile home did not know he had kidnapped the girl and kept her there.
Clothing taken from Couey's bedroom appeared to have blood on them, and a mattress and bedding had similar stains, though there was no evidence Jessica had been in the room, according to the do ents.
04-21-05 15:29 EDT
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makes me sick to my stomach...
i want this bas to burn in for all eternity...i still support the death penalty, but if he would suffer more and be killed, raped etc in general population, i'd be all for it....
Let's take another vote on the Death Penalty.
Personally in a case like this I think a -for-tat rule should be in order. He should be buried alive.
Lets, I still feel the same way.
Of course you do. And, if this were your daughter?
Do emotions make for good rational and logical thought?
I don't know, chances are I'd want to kill the guy, but chances are that I'd stick to my beliefs as well.
Someday Manny, when you have kids, odds are you'll change your mind about a lot of things.
Why is it that so many of you have trouble separating emotions from law?
Being the parent of a victim makes you no more an expert on the Death Penalty than being pregnant makes you an expert on abortion.
I wouldn't shed a tear if this guy got the beating of his life and burned in , but quit trumpeting every gruesome murder as though somehow THAT's the one that's going to make everyone who is against Capital Punishment somehow reconsider their stance.
And then, the guy you didn't have the conscience to kill, get's out of prison because of some technicality or because he's "rehabilitated" or escapes or whatever and meets this little girl:
How do you feel then?
Maybe someday they'll realize that some people just aren't worth the risk of keeping alive.
Then fix the technicalities. You don't kill people because your prison and judicial systems suck. That's lazy.And then, the guy you didn't have the conscience to kill, get's out of prison because of some technicality or because he's "rehabilitated" or escapes or whatever and meets this little girl:
mr non-violence manny says this guy should not be harmed even though he raped and murdered a little girl, but he was ready to fight with "the writer" because he was telling him about his girlfriend... makes perfect sense to me!
Evil should be destroyed. Does anybody disagree with that? Now, before someone argues that what is evil can be interpreted differently by different minds, does anybody here think that killing children is not evil?
When did I say I was going to fight anyone?
You're right Des, we have to destroy the Dark Side. Anyone know where we can find Luke Skywalker?
I'm not going to do this arguement again. I'm not in the mood to spin in circles today. I simply said I hadn't changed my mind based on that case. And I haven't.
from your history of always fighting... i remember reading about some basketball game where you almost got into a fight...and then you telling thewriter to be a man and show up to a gtg... if you trying to say it is so you could have a nice beer together vs get into something you're so full of ..When did I say I was going to fight anyone?
Well, until it's fixed, I'm for killin' 'em. Save the Children!
Sweet Jesus, do you ever give me a headache (sigh). So, do you not believe in the concept of evil, or do you just not care that it's out there? Out of curiosity.
Number of physical fights I've been in at any FSP tourney (or when FSP people are around for that matter) - 0
I simply pointed out that he doesn't have the courage to show up and say those things in person, and he doesn't. That doesn't have anything to do with fighting.
I have about as much a history of fighting as you have a history of being right. In otherwords, none.
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