Posted on 10/20/2021 1:23:29 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Newsweek ran a sob story about Willie B. Smith III, the man who murdered Sharma Ruth Johnson, 22, on the night of October 26, 1991. She was at an ATM. He did not know her. He asked her for directions to a fast-food restaurant.
Then he pulled a sawed-off shotgun, ordered her into his trunk, and with his girlfriend, Angelica Willis, cleaned out the last $80 from her bank account.
The Trussville (Alabama) Tribune reported, “The suspects then drove to Huffman to pick up Willis’ brother. Angelica Willis testified that once her brother learned the woman was in the trunk, he taunted her. The three then drove to Zion Memorial Cemetery, where Smith shot Johnson, execution-style. Willis said before the shooting she and her brother tried to tell Smith he didn’t have to kill her. She said Smith told Johnson, ‘I’m going to have to kill you’ because he thought she would call the police. He then shot her in the head.
“A secret recording of Smith explaining to his friend what happened was later played in court.”
He randomly picked out a stranger and then executed her for $80.
Newsweek made him a hero with its “Who Is Willie Smith? Alabama Death Row Inmate With IQ in the 70s Set to be Executed.”
The magazine did not disclose Sharma Ruth Johnson’s IQ.
The liberal argument is he is too stupid to be executed.
And yet he was not too stupid to execute a woman for a lousy $80.
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Can’t imagine the terror she went through.
Rest in peace, Sharma Ruth.
Well,he was executed and years later,at the insistence of some famous TV preacher who also insisted that he was innocent,the Governor of Virginia authorized the testing of a DNA sample that would *prove* innocence or guilt.
Yup,you guessed it...it proved he was guilty.
Me either
Such a tragedy
maybe her IQ was only 70....where’s the sympathy.....there is none.....poor girl.....
It is so frustrating that the press is so color oriented, and stands tall for criminals while ignoring victims.
When I was in law school, alot of professors made a big deal about IQ and prison. But I had a criminal law professor whose reply was if they are able to live in society, they have to abide by society’s rules and accept the good and the bad, e.g. the electric chair.
RTR
That same professor said, “Low IQ should not be a Union card for bad behavior.”
I’m not going to say what I think should be done to the people who try to get murderers like this off.
They’ve done that despite color for years. Journalists don’t want to see other criminals punished. Professional courtesy.
An IQ of 70 is average for a black in Africa. Here it’s 85 because of white infusion.
Sickening to think about.
Pretty young girl.
This is the perp:
At least he’ll arrive in hell with real purdy teeth!
In situations like this in the past, some police who know what is going to happen, arrange a fatal accident for the murderer.
No human can keep him from going where he will be going.
It’s a God Damned good thing I’m 75 and not 55, because I’d be on the 11 o’clock news tonight. Fed up with this insanity.
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