Convicted Killer of Two Houston (Texas) Girls Executed

AP via KTRK ^ | July 11, 2006 | AP

[Dog Gone]

These gang members had a lot of various appeals, some of which are still pending for the other defendants.

It's amazing how much effort was spent trying to prevent them from being punished for the crimes.

12 years is a little long by Texas standards, but it's still a rocketship to hell compared to most other states.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

Too bad they didn't gang rape and beat him before they killed him.

[humblegunner]

"Man, why ya'll Freepas be trippin?"

Don't hate the playa, yo.. hate the game.

Actually this dog got what he had coming to him and his pals are close behind him I hope.

Texas is a real bad place to be actin' that kind of fool.. I'm sayin'...

[COEXERJ145]

True, I was referring to the adults.

[metmom]

The US Supreme Court had been asked to block tonight's execution. O'Brien's defense argued there's no legal procedure for condemned Texas prisoners to challenge whether the drugs used in lethal injections could cause unconstitutional pain.

*unconstitutional pain*?????

What about the pain the girls they tortured felt? I'm beginning to become a bigger and bigger fan of an eye for an eye.

[spanalot]

Who aks you?

[Dog Gone]

The argument is based on the "cruel and unusual punishment" clause of the constitution.

The argument is that lethal injection is not painless and is therefore an unconstitutional way to execute a prisoner. Problem is, we don't have any survivors to testify how it felt. And it surely can't be any more painful than other forms of constitutional execution like hanging, firing squad, or electric chair. The gas chamber clearly was not painless.

[M Kehoe]

There is always good news on FR.

5.56mm

[dighton]

I'm going to be creating a ping list for Texas executions.

As they say, “this will be a high-volume list.”

[Graybeard58]

Three seconds apart.

[bfree]

Shouldn't the death penalty include pain? I would hope it was a slow, very long and painful procedure for him.

[Integrityrocks]

I thought there was something like a 20 - 25 year appeals process when you are on death row. Execution 13 years after the initial offense is actually pretty darn speedy.

[COEXERJ145]

I hope so. This is one thing I'm very proud of my state for. We actually punish criminals.

Do you want on it BTW?

[Perdogg]

The telemarketer Mauricio Brown is on deck.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

As they say, “this will be a high-volume list.”

As opposed to that California execution ping list which will get you pinged every 25 or 30 years!

[Dog Gone]

He was the 14th this year, and two more are scheduled for next week.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

"I thought there was something like a 20 - 25 year appeals process when you are on death row. Execution 13 years after the initial offense is actually pretty darn speedy."

Texas is usually done in under 10. Gotta love that!

[definitelynotaliberal]

I'm not a constitutional scholar but it doesn't seem to me that an injection (or its effect) is unusual.

Thanks for the answer. I'm not a native speaker. Every now and again, it strikes me that I'm not entirely clear on what my definition of the word is is.

[EDINVA]

"I am going to go light a nice Helix cigar and crack a Fosters ... and may the devil strip you of that honorable Gealic surname ..."

how about an Irish jig ?

[i_dont_chat]

I heard an interview with the father of one of the victims, and he stated how the killer would receive an injection and would be dead within 15 minutes, and he said something like: I wish to God my daughter's passing could have been that easy.

Can you believe it? There is a contingency of people saying that the death penalty by injection here in Texas should be banned because it is so painful.

Still waiting for Perry Austin (who is on Texas Death Row) to be executed. In 1992, he kidnapped and murdered an 8-year boy from our neighborhood.

http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/austinperry.htm

Austin pleaded guilty, said he didn't want the automatic appeal, and asked to be moved ahead of the line for execution, and then the Amnesty International people visited him in prison and talked him into allowing the "appeal process" to take place.