The murderer and the victim. I wish it had not taken so long for justice to be served.
Posted on 11/13/2013 3:06:07 AM PST by nickcarraway
Kimbrough was 19 when he climbed into an Orlando apartment and sexually assaulted and killed Denise Collins, 28. Kimbrough's execution wasn't the only one Tuesday. In Texas, Jamie McCoskey, 49, was also put to death after convicted in 1991 on rape and murder charges.
A man convicted in the 1991 sexual assault and murder of an aspiring artist in Orlando has been executed in Florida.
Forty-year-old Darius Kimbrough was pronounced dead at 6:18 p.m. following an injection at the Florida State Prison in Starke, officials said.
Kimbrough was condemned for the October 1991 killing of 28-year-old Denise Collins, who was attacked in her apartment as she slept. Experts testified at Kimbrough’s 1994 trial that blood and semen samples taken from Collins’ bed were compatible with the defendant’s DNA.
It was the second time a new mix of drugs was used in Florida since the previous execution Oct. 15. Kimbrough was not a plaintiff in a lawsuit by other inmates who have argued the use of the new drug mix should be halted as unconstitutional.
Meanwhile in Texas, a man convicted of abducting a young Houston couple, raping the woman and fatally stabbing the man in 1991 was put to death Tuesday evening.
Jamie McCoskey, 49, already was on a form of probation when he was arrested for the slaying of 21-year-old Michael Dwyer, who had been stabbed nearly two dozen times, and the rape of Dwyer’s pregnant fiance. The couple had been abducted from their apartment.
Asked if he had any final statement, McCoskey replied: “The best time in my life is during this period. ... I have been touched by an angel’s wings.”
He said that if he could, he would “change Dwyer’s parents’ suffering, because I know they are.” During his brief comments, and as a tear ran down the side of his face just above a tattoo teardrop and below his right eye, McCoskey said he wanted “to say some things so bad.”
He said he appreciated people who had helped him, then turned his gaze toward Dwyer’s mother and stepfather, saying, “And if this takes the pain away, so be it.”
After telling the warden he was “ready to go,” McCoskey turned his head back toward the warden in the seconds before the lethal dose of pentobarbital began taking effect and said loudly: “Better not be no mix-up here. I don’t want no stay.”
McCoskey let out a loud laugh, then began taking deep breaths that became several snores. He was pronounced dead at 6:44 p.m. CST, 19 minutes after the lethal drug began to be administered. Dwyer’s mother and stepfather declined to speak with reporters afterward. Jamie McCoskey.
McCoskey became the 15th convicted killer executed this year in Texas, which carries out the death penalty more than any other state.
The U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year refused to review McCoskey’s case, and his attorneys filed no last-day appeals in the courts.
Evidence showed the couple had left the door of their apartment open while they were bringing home groceries and were confronted by the knife-wielding McCoskey exactly 22 years ago Wednesday.
He ordered them to their car, handcuffed Dwyer, drove around Houston and stopped at an abandoned ramshackle house where he raped the woman.
She fled to a nearby home to seek help when she realized sounds she was hearing were of Dwyer being stabbed repeatedly. Their car was found at an apartment complex where McCoskey once lived.
Based on a description of the attacker, residents there identified McCoskey, whose 6-foot-7-inch height and square facial features had earned him the nickname “Lurch,” after the hulking Frankenstein-like servant to the fictional “Addams Family” television comedy of the 1960s.
His mother testified at his trial that McCoskey had an abusive childhood that led to behavioral problems. After stints in juvenile facilities, his offenses escalated as he reached adulthood. Before reaching death row, he had a kidnapping conviction in Austin, assaults while in prison, marijuana possession busts and a jail term where records show he used a chisel to crack the skull of a fellow Harris County inmate.
He also was remembered for walking into the Houston courtroom the day after his capital murder conviction in 1992, grabbing a heavy oak chair and heaving it about 10 feet. It hit one prosecutor in the arm and grazed another before crashing into the jury box rail.
“That’s for lying in court!” McCoskey shouted at the prosecutors. Jurors weren’t present yet and didn’t see the incident.
Days later, they rejected defense arguments McCoskey was insane and mentally ill and decided he should be put to death.
Prosecutors presented testimony McCoskey had an anti-social personality disorder but did know right from wrong.
“My only wish for Jamie is godspeed,” Jim Peacock, his lead defense lawyer, said. “And I hope whatever there is for him after this point is kinder to him than his past has been.”
At least seven other Texas prisoners are set to die in the coming months, including one next month.
The murderer and the victim. I wish it had not taken so long for justice to be served.
But look on the bright side (from the liberal point of view) She didn't defend herself with a (Horrors) GUN! He could have "taken it away from her and killed her."* Oh wait he did kill her.
* Not sure why liberals keep saying this. I have a standing invitation for any liberal who wants to test this to come break in my house and take my gun away. None have taken me up on it.
For the craven “liberals” out there who support the unlimited killing of the unborn child, just call this execution of a ruthless thug, “retroactive abortion”. Then you can support it.
The thug had many years of life and he used them to prey on innocent people. By contrast, the unborn child is totally innocent of any crime except the capital “crime” of being unwanted by his mother.
My Sister-in-Law who was a 21 year old college student was raped/murdered in a similar way, with her murderer climbing in her apartment window while she slept. I won’t go into gory details other than to say this happened in 1973 in Florida. At the time of the trial, the state supreme court banned the electric chair for 18 mos. while it was protested through the courts as “inhumane” treatment.
What is inhuman is what has happened to this family after the perp was convicted of first degree murder. He has sat in jail since, however he has tried to escape, brought in contraband, fought guards and the list goes on. We as tax payers have kept this POS alive all these years. Add insult to injury, we as a family except those who have passed, must attend paroll hearings every 5 years to keep his ass in jail. You see, if a paroll board becomes liberal, they could take pity on him and let him out.
My point: it would have been easier to kill him than to keep him alive. For those that feel there should be mercy on him, there is no mercy for this family as we have to relive this atrocity with all the intensity as if it happened yesterday, every 5 years.
-——He was pronounced dead at 6:44 p.m. CST, 19 minutes after the lethal drug began to be administered.-——
19 minutes to die.....strange that libtards think that is not cruel....
A single bullet to the brain seems much more quick and painless...and cheaper...
AMF to both these animals.
Better a shotgun blast, then bury the headless bastid.
And many volunteers.
This drug “mix” is all a scam. There are literally dozens of different ways that meds can be given in order to end these worthless POS’s lives.
just off the bat and with plenty of overkill to insure lethality.
500 mg of succinyl chlorine and a body bag
Ketamine 800 mg to sedate and then 500 meq of KCL
any combination and super dosing of rocuronium, vecuronium, and then stuff them in a bag.
For those inclined to be nice morphine sulfate/dilaudid/fentanyl in supradoses of 300 mg/100mg/ 1500 micrograms then IV Ativan/Valium/Phenobarbital or even alcohol/ethanol iv.
finish all of them off with 5-600 meq of KCL and maybe even add a couple of hundred milligrams of digoxin.
All this hand wringing about proper drug combinations and “cruel and unusual” punishment is a scam by lawyers to gut the death penalty and collect their hourly vig from the courts in order to justify their worthless law degree.
The most humane way that doesn’t fail is just to render them unconscious and decapitate them with a guillotine. But then you got that head rolling around.
An execution should be public. For infamous crimes, such as aggravated murders like this one, it should be public, painful and humiliating.
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