Ohio Man Executed for 1983 Fatal Robbery

Las Vegas Sun (via AP) ^ | January 14, 2004 | Andrew Welsh-Huggins

[Bonaparte]

No more tough guy.

[Bonaparte]

One for the ping list

[Delta 21]

Took long enough.

Speedy trial. Not so speedy justice.

[Bonaparte]

More on Williams execution

[rickmichaels]

117 pounds???

[Mark]

Not so speedy justice.

Here in CA, they are all dieing of old age.

[alisasny]

What took so long. Glad little boy is in hell : )

[Bonaparte]

Yep. I'm surprised his lawyer didn't try a "scrawny guy" plea.

[JLS]

"Four guards were needed to lift the 117-pound Williams from his knees and pry his hand off the edge of a table before carrying him into the death chamber. As he was strapped to the execution table he cried, "I'm not guilty. God, help me."

So much for the mental retardation claim. Sounds like he understood what was going on pretty well to me.

[IronJack]

Coward in life, coward in death.

[Bonaparte]

Or to gave a darned good imitation of understanding. At link in post 4, his lawyer said it was all because his mommy didn't love him enough.

[flutters]

Sadly, I think this news gets to the wrong crowd. Every inmate should be required to watch a video of this before they can be released from prison.

[Bonaparte]

I'm down with it, flutters. Nothing like watching a formerly cocky fellow convict whimper and beg for mercy as he's strapped to the guerney. Gives many a bad actor second thoughts. This used to be one of the salutory effects of public hangings.

[ladyrustic]

He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword.

[bonehead4freedom]

I hope we can get the bus rolling this year!These guys have preyed on innocent people and have used every tick in the book to delay the outcome, including the retarded claim.Twenty one years, wow! We need to speed up the appeals process!

[MeekOneGOP]

Not a Texas execution, but ...

Ohio Man Executed for 1983 Fatal Robbery

Excerpt:

Four guards were needed to lift the 117-pound Williams from his knees and pry his hand off the edge of a table before carrying him into the death chamber. As he was strapped to the execution table he cried, "I'm not guilty. God, help me."

At least nine guards restrained him as they prepared his arms and inserted needles. One guard standing at his head alternately restrained him and patted his right shoulder to comfort him.

Williams repeatedly shook his head and tried to lift himself off the preparation bed. He yelled several times, then rested his head and spoke, appearing to whisper or chant quietly.

Williams kept pleading even as the warden pulled the microphone away after his final official statement: "God, please help me. God, please hear my cry." He was pronounced dead at 10:15 a.m.

Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my Texas Executions ping list!. . .don't be shy.

[MeekOneGOP]

Yeah, man. That is some story. Thanks for the post and ping.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Anyone know what methods can be built into IQ assessment tests to find patterns of deliberate wrong answers? At this point it seems to be the flavor of the month among last minute defense ploys to qualify the death row inmate as having been retarded. I expect that many of them have been coached to select wrong answers. But then again - if your IQ is really 72, are you capable of faking a 68? A. Yes – but the beads of sweat will adorn your forehead!

[Bonaparte]

I don't believe in giving killers IQ tests. Nor do I believe in administering sanity tests to them. If they were that dumb or that crazy, they would have been institutionalized all along. But if a man is smart enough and sane enough to know how to dress himself, feed himself and generally get by in life, he's smart enough and sane enough to pay for his crimes. If he attempts to hide his crime and lies to the police about his crime, he knows the difference between right and wrong.

[trussell]

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