1991: Warren McCleskey

ExecutedToday.com ^ | September 25, 2011 | Headsman

[CheshireTheCat]

Twenty years ago today, Warren McCleskey died in Georgia’s electric chair for the murder of a police officer.

Yet the “question reverberates: Did Warren McCleskey deserve the chair? For the question to outlive him is a damning commentary on capital punishment in the United States.”

The most reverberating commentary on this case was the 1987 Supreme Court decision McCleskey v. Kemp — a landmark 5-4 ruling that still shapes the way judges handle purported racial discrimination in the criminal justice system.

McCleskey (the decision, not the man) “marked the end of an era in death penalty jurisprudence … reject[ing] the last major challenge to the death penalty in America” from the generation of legal tinkering reaching back to the 1960s.

McCleskey v. Kemp was decided on April 22, 1987, at which time just 70 humans had been executed since the “modern” era of capital punishment began in the 1970s. (Today, the count is well beyond 1,200.)

The victims attributed to those 70 were 83% white (77 of 93),* even though blacks and whites are murder victims in roughly equal numbers — suggesting on its face that white victims are treated as disproportionately “valuable” by prosecutors, juries, and/or judges. This was, prospectively, the case with Warren McCleskey himself, an African American who in the course of an armed robbery had gunned down (or maybe not: see below) a white off-duty policeman.

McCleskey’s appellate team marshaled a statistical study by Iowa Prof. David Baldus indicating that black murderers (to a small extent) and killers of white victims (to a greater extent) were indeed more likely to receive a death sentence in Georgia, even when controlling for dozens of other variables...

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“indicating that black murderers (to a small extent) and killers of white victims (to a greater extent) were indeed more likely to receive a death sentence in Georgia,”

So? He did the crime.

[CheshireTheCat]

If he didn’t deserve the death penalty, there is an easy way to make up for it and any disportionatality that went against black executees:

Execute the white women of Antifa and BLM for sedition.

[Repeal The 17th]

https://murderpedia.org/male.M/m1/mccleskey-warren.htm
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On the morning of May 13, 1978, Warren McCleskey, using his car, picked up Ben Wright, Bernard Dupree and David Burney. All four had planned to rob a jewelry store in Marietta that day.

After Ben Wright went into the store to check it out, they decided not to rob it. All four then rode around Marietta looking for another place to rob but couldn’t find anything suitable. They drove to Atlanta and decided on the Dixie Furniture Store as a target.

Each of the four was armed. McCleskey had a .38 caliber Rossi nickel-plated revolver, Ben Wright carried a sawed-off shotgun, and the two others had blue steel pistols.

McCleskey parked his car up the street from the furniture store, entered the store, and “cased” it. After McCleskey returned to the car, the robbery was planned.

Executing the plan, McCleskey entered the front of the store and the other three came through the rear by the loading dock. McCleskey secured the front of the store.

The others rounded up the employees in the rear and began to tie them up with tape. All the employees were forced to lie on the floor.

The manager was forced at gunpoint to turn over the store receipts, his watch and six dollars. George Malcom, an employee, had a pistol taken from him at gunpoint.

Before all the employees were tied up, Officer Frank Schlatt, answering a silent alarm, pulled his patrol car up in front of the building.

He entered the front door and proceeded approximately fifteen feet down the center aisle where he was shot twice, once in the face and once in the chest. The chest shot glanced off a pocket lighter and lodged in a sofa. That bullet was recovered. The head wound was fatal. The robbers fled.

Sometime later, McCleskey was arrested in Cobb County in connection with another armed robbery. He confessed to the Dixie Furniture Store robbery, but denied the shooting. Ballistics showed that Officer Schlatt had been shot by a .38 caliber Rossi revolver.

The weapon was never recovered but it was shown that McCleskey had stolen such a revolver in the robbery of a Red Dot grocery store two months earlier. McCleskey admitted the shooting to a co-defendant and also to a jail inmate in the cell next to his, both of whom testified for the state.

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Sounds good to me.

[CheshireTheCat]

I am actually not being facetious.

There are so many people, of all races, but mainly led by whites, who are committing treason and sedition that I am willing to see only the whites executed as a way of making up for past racial injustice blah blah if it makes people feel better and everyone else sentenced to 20 years hard labor.