Badass. I knew there had to be some explanation for the huge smile that suddenly appeared on my face around 20 after 6.
-Dan
Posted on 03/15/2006 5:54:28 PM PST by COEXERJ145
HUNTSVILLE — A former Marine was executed tonight for the death of a Chicago-area woman who was shot and killed along with a friend during a robbery outside a northwest Dallas theater in August 1997.
"I love my family," Tommie Hughes, 31, said in his final statement. "You all stay strong. Watch over each other," he told his mother, grandmother and some friends as they watched from a nearby window.
Hughes kept repeating "I love you. I love you" and looking at his family until the drugs took effect.
He said nothing about his victims, but at one point turned his head and stared at their relatives.
He was pronounced dead at 6:23 p.m., eight minutes after the dose began.
Hughes, was the fifth prisoner put to death this year in Texas and the first of four scheduled this month in the nation's busiest capital punishment state.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
Looks like the one for tomorrow night was canceled.
I was waiting for you to post this. I looked at the Huntsville paper's website and they didn't have at 6:30. Another miscreant joins the famous Greater Huntsville Flatliners' Club...
This was well deserved. I lived near these killings - brutal and cold blooded.
Greater Huntsville Flatliners' Club...
LOL!
" . . . the nation's busiest capital punishment state."
Sounds like the rest of the states have some catching-up to do.
In gross numbers Texas has been the busiest, but in terms of "per capita" Viginia has long been in the lead.
Messed with TX.
Down here in Florida we do all right, but not nearly as good as Virginia or Texas.
The one they're gonna do next week makes me ill to read about it. My grandson is ten and the toddler MURDERED would be eleven now had he lived.
He is UNWORTHY, as they all are, of being buried in Texas soil...
This sorry SOB killed two sweet girls that worked with my wife. Rot in Hell.
Who is up next week??
-Dan
Doesn't appear he was suffering much pain!
Hear that Californicators?
You're using a big name.
Where the recidivism rate is still 0.
I want to thank you for posting this report. I have lurked on this board for 5+ years but needed to reply to this story. I went to grad school with the Chicago woman at U of I (Illinois) and attended her funeral. It was a truly sad day as Foulke was a beautiful woman, in mind, body and spirit. She was in Dallas for an internship and only planned to be there for 3 months. The fact the story focuses on the murderer and not the 2 women he killed is truly disappointing. Her memory will always live in me and I only knew her for a year. She was a special woman and taken from this earth much too soon. The only solace I have is knowing she now in the company of God.
The problem is liberals (i.e. democrats). They truly do not care about the victims. They only care about the killers.
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