Posted on 12/10/2014 6:37:32 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
A Missouri inmate was put to death early Wednesday for fatally beating a 63-year-old woman with a hammer in 1998, the state's record 10th lethal injection of 2014 to match Texas for the most executions in the country this year.
Paul Goodwin, 48, sexually assaulted Joan Crotts in St. Louis County, pushed her down a flight of stairs and beat her in the head with a hammer. Goodwin was a former neighbor who felt Crotts played a role in getting him kicked out of a boarding house.
Goodwin's execution began at 1:17 a.m., more than an hour after it was scheduled, and he was pronounced dead at 1:25 a.m.
Efforts to spare Goodwin's life centered on his low IQ and claims that executing him would violate a U.S. Supreme Court ruling prohibiting the death penalty for the mentally disabled.
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What a POS!
Too bad they didn’t use a hammer!
He was apparently smart enough to understand physics.
Otherwise he would've tried to push the poor old woman down a hammer and beat her with a set of stairs.
That’s what I call putting the Hammer down.
Well, buh-bye, say hi to Ted Kennedy (D-Hell) for us...
He obviously knew what he did was wrong and that is all the jury has to know.
Good. Civilization wins another one.
Well we’re down to only 16 years between the crime and the punishment. That’s progress I suppose.
Yeah, 1998....unbelievable.
Unbelievable how long it takes to finally execute these monsters
Please tell me that he was raped and then murdered with a hammer! Eye for an eye after all!
Hopefully there will be three more executions of hammering killers soon.
Is that MC Hammer? I thought he was still alive?
Why didn't they ban high-capacity fully-automatic hammers in response to this brutal crime? Where are the liberal activists who want to protect us?
"Nails up, don't whack us".
Missouri executed a white guy? How did that happen? I thought the state was irremediably racist.
. . . and with a democrat governor, too!
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