Posted on 10/07/2005 11:38:17 AM PDT by Borges
HUNTSVILLE, Texas - A man was executed Thursday for gunning down a Texas state trooper in 1992, a slaying his trial attorneys had argued was prompted by anti-police rap music.
For his final statement, Ronald R. Howard looked at the trooper's widow, daughter and brother and said he hoped "this helps a little. I don't know how, but I hope it helps."
Then he turned to friends and a brother who were among his witnesses, expressing love and thanking them for locating two of his young children, who visited him on death row within the past week. "Love you all. Thank you so much," he said.
As the drugs were administered, he lifted his head from the gurney and said, "I'm going home."
Twelve minutes later, he was pronounced dead.
The slain trooper's widow and daughter, who were standing next to the window, hugged and kissed as the 32-year-old Howard slipped into unconsciousness.
"Today justice has been served," said Linda Davidson, widow of Department of Public Safety Officer Bill Davidson. "It's real frustrating the wheels of justice turn very slowly."
Howard was executed for killing the 43-year-old Davidson during a traffic stop outside Edna, about 100 miles southwest of Houston.
At the time of the shooting, Howard, then 18 and a father of four, was on probation for burglary.
Defense lawyers argued at his trial that Howard's constant exposure to gangsta rap music and its anti-police messages influenced him to pull the trigger.
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So full of love and gratitude ... The difference between this maggot today and the maggot who shot down the cop is one executioner.
Oh, and the fact that today's maggot is a doorstop.
!8 and four kids? Unless he was going out with much older women it looks like he should have been in jail on statutory rape charges.
In any event, kudos to TX for getting this done in 13 years as opposed to the 20+ it takes elsewhere.
Hopefully, while his soul is in Hell, he will figure out how executing him helped the family of the Texas State Trooper he killed. His lawyer said the killer was under the influence of rap music....all I have to say about that is..."goodbye sucka!!"
3,334 very disappointed liberals:
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?ronlife
Do you think maybe they'll sell the domain name to Ron Howard, the director?
http://www.ronrhoward.org/
It's not like they need it anymore!
Nothing poetic about that garbage.
Rest in Hell, scumbag.
What a coincidence, every time I hear rap music I want to kill myself.
http://www.jeremiahproject.com/culture/hestonspeech.html
A few years back I heard about a rapper named Ice-T who was selling a CD called 'Cop Killer' celebrating ambushing and murdering police officers. It was being marketed by none other than Time/Warner, the biggest entertainment conglomerate in the world. Police across the country were outraged. Rightfully so-at least one had been murdered. But Time/Warner was stonewalling because the CD was a cash cow for them, and the media were tiptoeing around it because the rapper was black. I heard Time/Warner had a stockholders meeting scheduled in Beverly Hills. I owned some shares at the time, so I decided to attend.
What I did there was against the advice of my family and colleagues. I asked for the floor. To a hushed room of a thousand average American stockholders, I simply read the full lyrics of 'Cop Killer'-every vicious, vulgar, instructional word.
I GOT MY 12 GAUGE SAWED OFF I GOT MY HEADLIGHTS TURNED OFF I'm ABOUT TO BUST SOME SHOTS OFF I'm ABOUT TO DUST SOME COPS OFF...
It got worse, a lot worse. I won't read the rest of it to you. But trust me, the room was a sea of shocked, frozen, blanched faces. The Time/Warner executives squirmed in their chairs and stared at their shoes. They hated me for that. Then I delivered another volley of sick lyric brimming with racist filth, where Ice-T fantasizes about sodomizing two 12-year old nieces Of Al and Tipper Gore. SHE PUSHED HER BUTT AGAINST MY ....'
Well, I won't do to you here what I did to them. Let's just say I left the room in echoing silence. When I read the lyrics to the waiting press corps, one of them said 'We can't print that.' 'I know,' I replied, 'but Time/Warner ís selling it.'
Two months later, Time/Warner terminated Ice-T's contract. I'll never be offered another film by Warners, or get a good review from Time magazine. But disobedience means you must be willing to act, not just talk.
Why do people think rap is music?
This creep was a psycho killer who would have done the same deed if Henry Mancini had been playing in the background.
Blaming rap music for killing a cop is like my raping someone because I heard Sylvia Robinson singing Pillow Talk in the background as the victim passed by.
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Pretty thin gruel. I'm guessing they won't pull that one out of the bag any time in the near future. Or maybe they'll just keep using it until everybody gives up and accepts it as a legitimate argument.
How or why does this fact, even if true, mitigate the circumstances here? My response would be, "So what?"
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And besides that, it really stinks. Anyone who can call that crap music, is as bad as the reprobates that write it.
I was making fun of the lame defense - I am a Texan and glad to see this thug dead.
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