Posted on 08/31/2006 7:01:57 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
OKLAHOMA has executed a confessed child murderer for the 1997 beating death of his 13-month-old daughter.
James Malicoat, 31, was condemned for beating Tessa Leadford to death at his home in the south-central Oklahoma town of Chickasha on February 21, 1997 while the girl's mother was at work.
Malicoat admitted slamming Leadford's head into a dresser a few days before she died and punching her in the stomach so hard she stopped breathing on the day of her death.
Malicoat tried to resuscitate Leadford but when he was unable to revive her, he laid her in her crib and went to bed.
When Tessa's mother, Mary Ann Leadford, came home from work and found the girl not breathing, she and Malicoat rushed the baby to a hospital emergency room.
Investigators said the extensive bruising on Tessa Leadford's body, bite marks and two broken ribs indicated she had been abused repeatedly for days before her death.
Mary Ann Leadford was convicted of first degree murder for her role in her daughter's death and is serving a life sentence.
Today, while strapped to a gurney in the death chamber shortly before his execution, Malicoat apologised for the murder.
"I just want everybody to know how sorry I am this thing had to happen; any of it," he said. "I am sorry I caused the death of another human being. There is nothing I can do to change it. Contrary to what some people believe I spent many years going over it in my head. It's never left me."
Malicoat was the 83rd person executed in Oklahoma since the state resumed capital punishment in 1990.
Millions of babies are murdered in America each year and the only ones charged are those who try to stop it...
He can't even call her his daughter??
Wonder what he said when he met his Maker....
This guy beat that child for days before finally killing her. I often think that criminal punishment in a 'civilized' society actually lacks preventative merit. I'm glad this scum is dead.
How does bashing the girl's head against a dresser translate as "trying to stop it"?
If your point is that abortion is illegal, but those who use violence at clinics are charged, what does that have to do with this story?
The story says she was his daughter, but both the baby and the mother have a different name from the killer. May have been a step-daughter.
Considering the difference in surnames between the murderer and the murdered, I don't think the child was his daughter.
But you are right...the killer couldn't even bring himself to say that he murdered a helpless little baby. He had to generalize it as "another human being."
Everyone who is a new parent is frustrated and occasionally angry. Those who are wired correctly will never harm their children. Some are defective.
And isn't it curious that the very liberals who see nothing wrong with slaughtering innocent, unborn babies are the first ones to screech about a guilty murderer being put to death.
Killing a baby HAD to happen? What a dick!
He probably meant something else, but still. I find it hard to believe someone who smashed a baby's head and then, DAYS after any "heat of the moment" had passed, he punched her so hard she stopped breathing.
As with all of these people, he's jsut sorry he is being punished for it.
I think you may have misconstrued my total intent.
Merely making an observation that some who kill babies are executed, others are told it is their right.
It's the same in Australia. We live in a very confused society...
That was exactly what stood out to me.
Now he can burn in hell with the scum Texas executed tonight.
hello Lucifer....
You should clarify that line, though--obviously, the article is about someone who DID pay for killing a baby.
Wonder what his Maker said to the creep when he passed to the Great Beyond.
Doubt if he'll be dining on fried chicken and apple pie (his last meal) where he's going.
If he DID ask for fried chicken for his last meal, the ultra lefties would be for giving him the juice for eating meat.
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