[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???

[alisasny]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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!

[trussell]

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[Melas]

Tragic. Every comment I've read is a flip so what about the thug that met his maker.

Not one word about the trauma, and if you don't think it was traumatic, you're a blooming idiot, suffered by the guards who's duty it was to carry this out. I imagine most of the guards were good men, and good men don't naturally come to putting to death a man who's pleading for his life. I feel very, very, very sorry for those men.

[Lancey Howard]

He said he was in Chmielewski's house the night she died but left before she was killed.

Well then, I hope they catch the real killer and execute him, too.

[mvpel]

A footprint on the victim's nightgown matched his shoe, and gun residue was found on a jacket at his mother's house the day he was arrested.

Sounds like pretty flimsy evidence to me. I've probably got a lot of gun residue all over the place, seeing as how I own four of them.

Did they ever find the gun?