Posted on 10/20/2022 11:45:41 AM PDT by Morgana
Inmate Benjamin Cole was executed by the state of Oklahoma Thursday morning for the 2002 killing of his 9-month-old daughter.
He was pronounced dead at 10.22am Central Time.
The 57-year-old died by lethal injection.
His attorneys had previously argued that Cole was mentally ill and not competent to be executed.
Cole was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and, according to his attorneys, is 'incapacitated by his mental illness to the point of being essentially non-functional.'
Attorneys for the state and members of the victim's family, however, have said that symptoms of Cole's mental illness are exaggerated and that the brutality of his daughter's killing merited the death penalty.
Five days before Christmas in 2002, Brianna Cole was murdered by her father, who forcibly bent the infant backwards until her spine broke and her aorta tore. Prosecutors said Cole was angry that her cries were interrupting his video game playing.
Cole's was the sixth execution carried out in Oklahoma since October 2021 when the state recommenced the practice.
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Ouch!
It was brutal, though I woke up really fast.
I had to report for duty 15 minutes later.
I had to tell my NCOIC, just in case I had an anaphylactic shock incident.
He made me go into the bathroom with him and I had to drop my pants.
Then he got the Commander to come see. (O-5 Major)
I think they just wanted to laugh at me. :)
“Endless stays and appeals like this are not productive.”
Very productive for the attorneys.
The vast majority of people who are pro-abortion have never witnessed one. They may be rightly horrified by the image of this baby being broken and torn in half. So why not if it was a pre-born baby? Answer: Ignorance.
I am absolutely convinced that if every pro-abortion person was compelled to watch a born baby being broken, torn to pieces, or stabbed to death, or poisoned, or burned to death with salt, and then was told, "Oh, by the way, that baby was about to be born, but was 'aborted'," that most of them would change their minds. Or maybe have a breakdown at the realization of the truth.
Support for abortion depends on ignorance of the facts of abortion.
I feel otherwise... I pray God grants him the justice he deserves.
Sadly, I agree with your comments.
Now he is non-functional.
They cannot stop him from being around his child. Only the courts can.
No. All murderers should get the death penalty. No exceptions, regardless of the circumstances.
That is how it was.
True. I recall hangings at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in 1960.
who reproduces with a paranoid schizo? Be a little pickier with who you have a baby with.
I doubt that he’ll be meeting God anytime in the future... May the devil burn his soul for eternity, that would be a better suggestion.
My day was really sucking until I read this great news... The death penalty actually being carried out on somebody who deserves it.
My youngest daughter is an Assistant Attorney General for Oklahoma and was the lease council on this case. She was up all night responding to 7 or 8 last minute appeals and motions Cole’s lawyers filed in the US Supreme Court. She is now on a first name basis withJustice Kavanaugh’s head clerk. The defendant did not want all that stuff filed but the defense attorneys filed them anyway.
He was competent enough to play video games. He was competent enough to get upset to the point he killed his daughter. He deserved to die. It’s ashamed it took twenty years for justice to be served. Justice delayed for that long is no justice at all.
Sixth execution? Not nearly enough.
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