Posted on 05/27/2024 1:11:33 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1994, an uncooperative Charles Rodman Campbell was lashed to a board to keep him upright, and hanged by the neck until dead at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla.
According to this Seattle Times timeline of his life and crimes, Campbell had been getting in trouble since he was a child, to the extent that by the time he was seventeen his mother had given up on him and never wanted him back home again. His crimes began with burglary and drug use but quickly escalated into violence.
True crime author Ann Rule wrote a chapter about Campbell in her book A Rose For Her Grave and Other True Cases:.
harles Rodman Campbell is a killer straight out of a nightmare. There should have been some way to keep him locked up forever. But he slipped through the loopholes of our justice system and he was allowed freedom to stalk his unknowing victims. If ever there was a case that pitted innocence against pure evil, it is this one. He was out of his cage, and he was aware of every facet of her life, and yet his potential prey felt only a chill premonition of danger. He was a man consumed with rage and the need for revenge. Because of a neglectful bureaucracy, Campbell was allowed to take not one life — but three.
The sordid story that lead to his execution began on December 11, 1974, when Campbell broke into the rural Clearview, Washington home of Renae Louise Wicklund. He held a knife to the throat of her baby daughter, Shannah, forced Renae to perform oral sex on him, then fled the scene....
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Awful...
It is people like this who finally convinced me, after decades of feeling ambivalent about it, that the death penalty is absolutely warranted in too many cases.
His incredulity is laughable.
Any relation to Cankles Rodman?
He would have eventually straightened out, in physical form that is, if just hoisted by a rope around his neck. With more suffrage equity I might add.
So this guy would not cooperate with the hangman. Just because the murderous scum was guilty as Hell and deserved a rope doesn’t mean he should just prance up the steps with a huge smile on his face, put the rope around his neck himself, have some milk and cookies then also pull the lever.
I had a similar journey to pro-capital punishment.
Perhaps it made him feel better, for a very short time.
Please explain why the criminal had a perpetual get out of jail free card??
Reminds me a great line from the Three Stooges. Curly: “my daddy died dancing...at the end of a rope”
Punishment should be severe for any and ALL violent acts. I’m for the death penalty if you mess with a child or a old person.
Every government official involved in failing to protect Wicklund should ALSO have been executed. That NEVER should have happened. I can not begin to describe my rage about that.
As I. I have a real problem with rape. Unless there is evidence that it was by force, I would be reluctant to convict. More than one innocent man is in jail for a crime that was not a crime or not even him as the perpetrator. If it is an underage victim and proof via DNA I have no problems with a guilty vote.
i first heard of this scum while I was in the Police Academy in Seattle in 1985-1986. There is more to this story you don’t know about and don’t want to know. This piece of (I was going to say maggot, but that’s an insult to maggots), scum deserved what he got. It’s just to bad the do-gooders thought they could rehabilitate him. He said in court he was going to find that Lady and kill her. It’s just also to bad that her neighbor went to spend the afternoon with the Rape Victim and then the Victims daughter came home from school.
That’s all I’m saying.
This is not a new idea.
Like Nietzsche says, “Out of chaos comes order.”
The PRIMARY purpose of government is to protect citizens from evil. These government officials FAILED LETHALLY.
I wish I could find it but there was a good article about how the death penalty and the use of it actually leads a lot of death row inmates to being saved due to the finality of the act. Gives a lot of death row inmates to reflect & change knowing the finality of their actions.
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