I'm very glad that this vermin has been eliminated from my home town.
Here's the story that ran today in my local fishwrap.
URL: http://www.caller.com/ccct/local_news/article/0,1641,CCCT_811_3495909,00.htm
Kunkle's sixth date for death is tonight
By Neal Falgoust Caller-Times January 25, 2005
Condemned inmate Troy Kunkle is scheduled to die at 6 p.m. today for the 1984 shooting death of Corpus Christi resident Steven Wayne Horton.
This is the sixth time Kunkle, 38, has faced the death chamber during his 20 years in prison. The U.S. Supreme Court stayed his last execution on Nov. 18, with the news coming about half an hour after Kunkle was scheduled to die at 6 p.m. It was the second time the high court stayed the execution on the day Kunkle was set to die. The court lifted the most recent stay last month.
Kunkle's attorneys have made an appeal to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles for a 180-day reprieve and the commutation of his death sentence to life in prison.
Members of the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty will hold a vigil at 6 p.m. at the Incarnate Word Convent at 2910 S. Alameda St. to protest Kunkle's execution.
If the execution goes forward, Kunkle will be the 338th person on Texas' death row to die by lethal injection, and the second this year.
Kunkle's attorneys have argued the jury that sentenced him to death did not have the opportunity to properly consider his history of drug and alcohol abuse as mitigating evidence at trial. That evidence, they said, could spare his life.
Kunkle, 18 at the time of the killing, and three friends were visiting Corpus Christi from San Antonio on Aug. 12, 1984, when they decided to look for someone to rob.
Horton, 31, was walking on Paul Jones Avenue when the group stopped and offered him a ride home. Once he was in the car, one of the four put a gun to Horton's head and demanded his wallet. Horton refused, and Kunkle shot him in the back of the head with a .22-caliber pistol. Kunkle's girlfriend then pushed Horton's body out of the car and took his wallet, which contained $13, according to state reports.
After the killing, Kunkle reportedly recited lyrics from heavy metal band Metallica's song "No Remorse," from the album "Kill 'em All," saying, "Another day, another death, another sorrow, another breath." Later, he reportedly said the killing was "beautiful," according to state reports.
After the killing, Kunkle reportedly recited lyrics from heavy metal band Metallica's song "No Remorse," from the album "Kill 'em All," saying, "Another day, another death, another sorrow, another breath." Later, he reportedly said the killing was "beautiful," according to state reports.Bu-bye, sicko.
"...with the news coming about half an hour after Kunkle was scheduled to die at 6 p.m."
Well, if the news came half an hour after he was scheduled to die, why wasn't he already dead?
