U.S. Supreme Court stops efforts to halt Ross execution (Connecticut)

WTNH.com - News Channel 8 ^ | May 12, 2005 Updated at 11:28 PM | WTNH.com/AP

[nutmeg]

Connecticut ping!

Please Freepmail me if you want on or off my infrequent Connecticut ping list.

[Stonedog]

Death penalty opponents warned that Ross' execution could break down a political and psychological barrier against capital punishment in New England and start a domino effect in the region.

We can only pray that this is true.

[ikka]

They did NOTHING for Terri Schiavo, did they?

[zarf]

....the former insurance agent

OK, now I understand.

[LdSentinal]

One less vote for the Democrats.

[Lancey Howard]

Edwin Shelley, whose 14-year-old daughter Leslie was Ross' seventh victim, said he planned to watch Ross die.

"It's going to be nice to come home and realize that the case is finished and that he has received his just rewards," Shelley said. "I think I will be very relaxed and at ease with myself."

It is called "closure", and one can only hope that when evil such as the evil of this serial killer Michael Ross strikes again - - and unfortunately it likely will - - it strikes the families of these scumbag death penalty opponents.

[Lancey Howard]

Edwin Shelley, whose 14-year-old daughter Leslie was Ross' seventh victim, said he planned to watch Ross die.

"It's going to be nice to come home and realize that the case is finished and that he has received his just rewards," Shelley said. "I think I will be very relaxed and at ease with myself."

It is called "closure", and one can only hope that when evil such as the evil of this serial killer Michael Ross strikes again - - and unfortunately it likely will - - it strikes the families of these scumbag death penalty opponents.

[Lancey Howard]

Edwin Shelley, whose 14-year-old daughter Leslie was Ross' seventh victim, said he planned to watch Ross die.

"It's going to be nice to come home and realize that the case is finished and that he has received his just rewards," Shelley said. "I think I will be very relaxed and at ease with myself."

It is called "closure", and one can only hope that when evil such as the evil of this serial killer Michael Ross strikes again - - and unfortunately it likely will - - it strikes the families of these scumbag death penalty opponents.

[Former Military Chick]

The news break said that the execution is going on as planned, in less than 90 minutes.

I say good riddance.

[nutmeg]

The news break said that the execution is going on as planned, in less than 90 minutes.

I say good riddance.

I say good riddance to him as well!

[Former Military Chick]

Quotes from Connecticut's planned execution of Michael Ross

May 12, 2005, 11:46 PM EDT

With BC-CT--Ross Execution

Here are comments from some of those involved in the scheduled execution of serial killer Michael Ross:



"After the execution, what will the state of Connecticut have gained from all of this? The answer seems to be that, minimally, the state has secured the proverbial pound of flesh for the crimes of this one outrageously cruel man. But now, what is to be? Has our thirst for this ultimate penalty now been slaked, or do we, the people of Connecticut, continue down this increasingly lonesome road? _ Connecticut Supreme Court Justice Flemming Norcott Jr. in his concurrence and dissent from the ruling that cleared the way for the execution.

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"I wish to make it clear that I do not authorize, endorse concur in or approve of any legal pleadings or petitions filed in any court anywhere in the time remaining between the execution of this affidavit and the moment of my execution unless they are filed by me or attorney T.R. Paulding, Jr." _ Ross affidavit.

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"The whole thing is just disheartening to me and I think we're going to live to regret this day." _ Antonio Ponvert III, attorney for Ross' father, whose last appeal was rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court.

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"It's going to be nice to come home and realize that the case is finished and that he has received his just rewards. I think I will be very relaxed and at ease with myself." _ Edwin Shelley, whose 14-year-old daughter Leslie was killed by Ross in 1984.

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"I'm sure it's going to be difficult. I have no doubt. Seeing a life being extinguished with such technological sophistication, it's a whole new barbarism." _ the Rev. John Giuliani, a priest chosen by Ross to be one of the witnesses.

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"We wish to have him destroyed. Mr. Ross is a diseased animal that society is well justified to flush down its sewer system." _ Lan Manh Tu, brother of Ross' first victim Dzung Ngoc Tu, 25, whose body was found in 1981 in a gorge at Cornell University.

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"Her youngest brother is about to graduate from adult ed later this month, that's the event we're concentrating on. We'll definitely go to that." _ Raymond Roode, stepfather of April Brunais, on why her family decided not to attend the execution.

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"Capital punishment will be wrong long after Michael Ross and it was wrong long before him."

_ Robert Nave, executive director of the Connecticut Network to Abolish the Death Penalty.

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"May the ending of Michael Ross' life be the beginning of a renewed determined and sustained movement to abolish capital punishment in Connecticut." _ The Rev. Stephen J. Sidorak Jr., executive director of the Christian Conference of Connecticut.

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"Knowing that they were our age, knowing that he killed and raped them and stuff I'm putting myself in their shoes." _ Lauren Mashiak, a 17-year-old junior at Somers High, who came out to the prison to support the execution.

[Once-Ler]

Both courts rebuffed a lawsuit brought on behalf of Ross' father that claimed the execution would lead to a wave of suicide attempts among Connecticut inmates.

Another benifit of capital punishment.

[Once-Ler]

I hope it hurts like hell, I only wish I could do myself.

From a post by Common Tator

Lethal injections start with a large injection of sodium pentathol followed by pancuronium bromide, and finally potassium Chloride.

If those charged with doing the lethal injection start the pancuronium bromide into the IV with out flushing the IV the remaining sodium pentathol reacts with the pancuronium Bromide to form a solid. That results in a very painful death over as much as a half our to an hour. Executioners often claim to have made a mistake, but it seems likely to me that they want to make the death as painful as possible under the circumstances. There have been "problems" with the lethal injections of several serial killers. "Problems" injecting the chemicals result in it taking an intensively painful half our to a full hour for the convicted killer to die from the "problem plagued" injection.

[goldstategop]

The vermin needs to fry. And the bleeding heart liberals can cry.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Jrabbit]

Is he dead yet?

[Lancey Howard]

LMAO!!!

[Lancey Howard]

Desperate to save his life, public defenders and Ross' family argued that Ross suffered from "death row syndrome" - that is, he had become deranged from living most of the past 18 years under a death sentence.

Prior to living on death row, Ross was not deranged.
Okay....

[Lancey Howard]

This punk was scheduled to die at 2:00 but I can't find anything on the news wires to confirm he's dead. I got a cold one ready to be cracked, so if anybody hears the good news, please ping me. Thanks.