Posted on 11/29/2005 9:06:53 AM PST by ncountylee
LUCASVILLE, Ohio, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Convicted Cincinnati killer John Hicks, 49, was put to death Tuesday for the cocaine-fueled slayings of his step-daughter and mother-in-law.
Hicks confessed to the August 1985 slayings of Brandy Green, 5, and Maxine Armstrong, 56, which he blamed on his addiction to cocaine, The Cincinnati Enquirer and The Cincinnati Post reported.
Hicks told police he stole $300 from Armstrong's apartment to buy drugs and strangled the woman. Hicks told authorities he returned later that night and strangled his step-daughter, fearing she might have heard him kill his mother-in-law.
On Monday, Ohio Gov. Bob Taft denied Hicks' appeal for life without parole. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also refused to intervene.
Hicks was put to death by lethal injection at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility near Lucasville, Ohio, The Post reported.
Twenty years of taxpayer-supported life before justice was finally served. Pathetic.
HOORAY, HOORAY, HOORAY.
START UP THE CHIPPER!
"Realizing Green could identify him as the last person at the apartment, he returned and attempted to suffocate the 5-year-old with a pillow then strangle her with his hands. She struggled, and Hicks covered her mouth and nose with duct tape. He received the death penalty for the girls murder."
Same thing for "Tookie".
Oh but the lawyers wouldn't have been happy about that.
He allready voted absentee!
That doesn't fit the agenda. The MSM must maintain at least n appearance of disinterest in bad news........../s
He should have died the same way as the little girl. Duct taped and slowly suffocated..............
If he lived in St. Louis, he could cast two or three votes in 08...
Mr Hicks, you case was rejected by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court, so you and your case have been refered up to a Higher Court.
This guy confessed and it still took 20 years to execute him.
I am not questioning the appropriateness of the punishment. It is just that he is the only one who was executed expeditiously. Imagine what we might have learned had the FBI really had a chance to investigate the details behind him.
Oh, I think we all know who bankrolled him. Give Jayna Davis a call for more info.
IIRC, didn't hundreds of pages of the FBI report disappear???
WOW! Did not hear a thing about it. No candlelight vigils outside the prison? No rousing choruses of We Shall Overcome? I guess all the anti-death penalty fools must be too busy with the Tookie case lately
Yup...evil VRWC head fake. LOL
"That's one less vote for the Democrats."
WOW! I never thought of it that way. Is there ANY downside to the death penalty? Sure does not seem so.
Even if he did it (and I'm not totally convinced of that) it's senseless to kill the main witness before the entire matter is investigated totally. Likewise the building was destroyed before all the evidence could be gathered. The whole thing was fishy and I'm more than suspicious that clinton was in it up to his eyeballs (may justice be done on him)
No kidding. DU is shedding tears over another guy who killed someone in a pool hall. They didn't see this one coming. I wonder what his DU screen name was?
He should never have lived to see the inside of a courtroom.
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