Posted on 11/14/2014 1:11:30 AM PST by Morgana
STARKE, Fla. (AP) -- A Florida man who fatally shot his sleeping wife and then raped and killed his young stepdaughter 22 years ago was put to death Thursday for the child's slaying.
Chadwick Banks, 43, was pronounced dead at 7:27 p.m. EST Thursday after a lethal injection at Florida State Prison, the office of Gov. Rick Scott said.
Banks was condemned for the September 1992 killing of 10-year-old Melody Cooper. Banks also received a life sentence for the murder of his wife, Cassandra Banks, in the attack in the Florida Panhandle region.
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i honestly don’t mind if people on death row have some time to truly repent and come to Jesus. despite hating what they did, fervently, getting such people to repent and convert saves a soul from hell and the devil, who can’t get enough of them to suffer with him.
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i feel that in the past, the 1-2 weeks max before the sentence was carried out, was plenty of time. 22 years is essentially justice delayed 22 years unnecessarily.
if/when shtf occurs, there will be no 22 years on death row.
Good riddance. If blacks disproportionately get the death penalty (which does not seem to be true when you look at the details of death penalty cases), there is an easy solution - give deserving white murders the penalty that their crimes rate. Everyone would be safer without these predators in the world.
White murderers are slightly more likely to get the death penalty.
Which is, of course, why those who cry “Racist” over capital punishment are reduced to screaming about the race of the victims rather than the race of the killers.
deserved to be put out of our misery two decades ago.
I’ve been reading about Franz Schmidt, Nuremburg’s executioner in the years 1578-1617. In those days the death penalty could be imposed by means of drowning, hanging, beheading, breaking on the wheel and burning at the stake.
Chadwick Banks deserved some of that old-time punishment for the things he did, not 22 more years of life followed by a painless death. He deserved extreme agony.
22 years this piece of garbage was breathing good air and living at tax-payers’ expense. What a piece of trash!
The world is a little better place this morning.
Not to mention all the money, which probably came from the taxpayers, the involved lawyers received for endlessly filing appeals.
How about 'come to Mohamad? "Banks wore the white skullcap of the Muslim Brotherhood . . . "
Did you get a look at the guy? He doesn’t look very white to me. I wonder if his wife and stepdaughter were white, though.
Please help send this Viral! 8 year old Nikki deserves the justice 2 courts and all appeals upheld and handed down.
Ashley Nichole ‘Nikki’ Read, age 8, RAPED and KILLED by david keen. 24 yrs ago. He has been on TN Death Row for 20 yrs. ALL State and Federal Appeals are FINISHED. DNA proved he raped her, he confessed he both raped and strangled her to with her own shoe laces. Yet TN Gov Bill Halsam refuses to set an execution date or sign the execution warrant.
615) 741-2001 bill.haslam@tn.gov
Nikki was raped, strangled with her own Shoelaces, wrapped tightly in her blanket and thrown in the river barely still alive, where she finally drown to death. 24 Yrs of waiting for Justice, is obscene.
Tell TN Governor to do his Constitutional Duty, that 2 juries decided and all appeals courts UPHELD was the right course of action. The Death Penalty.
http://murderpedia.org/male.K/k/keen-david.htm
22 years!! Wrong! Once convicted, they should schedule the execution for no more than 2 years hence, and execute, unless there is clear and unambiguous evidence that surfaces in that 2 year period he did not do it.
Much of the delay could quickly be mitigated by the states if they would pass, as an optional means of execution, a law permitting the firing squad.
There are dozens of challenges that automatically are made with a sentence for lethal injection. But with a firing squad, challenges and objections are far fewer. Plus, no outside agency could interfere with the execution, because rifles, ammunition, and LEOs are ubiquitous; not like difficult to obtain injection drugs.
And bullets will most definitely kill, no argument there.
So instead of two decades or more, execution might be reduced to just a decade. With further reforms, to just five years after sentencing.
I love a story with a happy ending...though years too late.
IMHO, I’d say a good limit would be 5-yrs. All capital crimes should be fast-tracked to the top of the docket; not dragged out at a snails pace (might also whittle down the smaller/frivolous B.S.).
And, for those instances where Justice was thwarted by those in positions of power; especially AFTER the 5yr. termination??? Again, if I were king for a day: if before 5 yrs, all in the know get a stay in club Fed w/out parol for 20yrs. (all bennies revoked and/or restitution paid personally). AFTER 5: immediate termination with personal restitution paid to the family.
Over-zealous prosecutors/etc. (whom have the backing of gov’t $$ to drain and kill any defense) [IE: Duke lacrosse] should be just as punished...10 yrs. behind bars w/ personal restitution.
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