Meet Tookie's new cellmate in Hell!
Posted on 03/18/2006 9:33:54 PM PST by Former Military Chick
RALEIGH, N.C. — A man who fatally shot his then-girlfriend's husband in a plot to collect insurance money was executed by injection early Friday.
Patrick Moody, 39, was executed at Central Prison for the slaying of Donnie Robbins of Thomasville. He was having an affair with Robbins' wife Wanda, who persuaded Moody to shoot her husband so they could collect on a $5,000 insurance policy. Wanda Robbins was sentenced to life in prison plus 65 years after pleading guilty to murder and insurance fraud charges.
Moody was pronounced dead at 2:19 a.m. EST, said Keith Acree, a spokesman for the state Correction Department.
Moody gave a poem to the prison warden as his last statement. He chose a last meal of turkey with dressing, tossed salad with blue cheese dressing, strawberry cheesecake and a soda, Acree said.
Gov. Mike Easley had denied clemency for Moody and the U.S. Supreme Court and the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused motions to stop the execution.
Moody had argued that North Carolina's injection execution method could cause "unconstitutional pain and suffering."
In a written statement, Robbins' sister, Peggy Robbins Smith, said the execution brought her closure.
"I will always have my memories and no one can take them away from me," he said. "I loved him and always will."
The South is not seriously infected with liberal judges.
Murdered for a whole $5,000.
Give my regards to Tookie, you puke.
As far as I'm concerned, closure for the victim's family is the most important benefit of putting down the killer.
Oh, Golly Gosh. What will we do without this unfortunate sould? And did he, pray not, suffer in his last stinking, rotten moments.?
I'm still in favor of electric bleachers on public TV. Number them, and let us bet on who goes first! Would be a good fund raiser for the victim's family and would help to pay the state back for feeding and housing the lousy creep.
Justice served...
Meet Tookie's new cellmate in Hell!
Oh, no!
That's cruel and unusual punishment!
How do we know the poor fellow wasn't feeling pain before he died?
Here in CA we have a murdering scumbag who's still alive thanks to that issue being raised by his slimeball attorneys.
No mention was made of the pain suffered by the girl he stabbed and strangled to death to prevent her testimony.
He burns while the woman lives...where is NOW when you need em
"Moody asked Donnie to measure the automobile, purportedly to determine whether it would fit on a "roll-back" truck. As Donnie leaned over the hood of the automobile to measure it, Moody shot him in the back of the head with a .32-caliber semiautomatic pistol he had stolen the previous day from a house near the Robbins home."
You might be a redneck if the used car you are considering buying is located not in the seller's driveway or garage, but rather in a nearby field.
It might have something to do with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals being stocked with frothing, unhinged moonbats.
I'm so aggravated by the U.S. Senate not pushing harder to confirm people to those vacancies.
When is that dolt Arlen Specter going to stop preening for the cameras and push through some COA nominees for that circuit?
"He was having an affair with Robbins' wife Wanda, who persuaded Moody to shoot her husband so they could collect on a $5,000 insurance policy."
I know that criminals, during armed robberies, have killed for much less but for a premeditated murder,$5000 seems like peanuts. Certainly it's not worth the risk of a death sentence. Why would murder be the first choice anyway? If they had both gotten jobs at minimum wage, they could have earned that same amount in a reasonably short time. They were not only immoral, but stupid.
"Lethal" is redundant. Could a headline writer say, "Executed by Non-Lethal Injection"?
Congratulations to the State of South Carolina. The murdered man is finally revenged, justice has been served and the public protected. This man, who could be "persuaded" to murder for $5000 would surely kill again. Society is better off without him.
The only injustice was that the woman, who was the mastermind, you should pardon the expression, was allowed to live.
You're absolutely right on all counts.
Should have been a hanging on TV.
Twelve years is way too long , imho, for the scumbag to have languished in jail.
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