Posted on 12/26/2007 12:31:26 PM PST by SmithL
NASHVILLE — A federal judge has issued a stay of execution for Paul Dennis Reid, a death row inmate facing multiple death sentences for a series of slayings at fast food restaurants.
Reid, a Texas drifter who came to Nashville to be a country singer, was convicted of killing seven people in Nashville and Clarksville in 1997.
U.S. District Judge Todd Campbell ruled late last week that the Reid execution should be delayed.
Reid’s execution had been set for Jan. 3.
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Another MAD Magazine headline we'd like to see.
Posted on 04/29/2003 6:07:27 AM PDT by GailA
Execution stayed; killer resumes appeal process
By Sam Youngman and Richard Locker
April 29, 2003
NASHVILLE - Minutes after a federal appeals court stayed his 1 a.m. execution, convicted killer Paul Dennis Reid decided to resume his own appeals, postponing his scheduled death by lethal injection for what could be years. . . .
I know nothing about this dude. Is there any possibility in hell he didn't do it?
Unconscionable.
I lived in Nashville during the time of these murders. Reid is the scum of the earth. He’s a man without a soul, and the world would be a better place without him.
How dare this judge make the vistims’ families wait longer for justice? It’s been a decade already!
7 death sentences? I’d be happy if they carried out just one...
A State Trooper was killed about a year a go in Covington.
The jury ended up treating on of the killers as a victim, and gave him a sentence that his mother was pleased with.
Disgusting.
Not likely. Here’s a bit of background:
Reid, who moved to Nashville to attempt a country music career, was fired as a dishwasher from a Shoney’s restaurant in Donelson on Feb. 15, 1997, for losing his temper and throwing a plate that hit another employee.
The next day, Sarah Jackson, 16, and Steve Hampton, 25, were slain execution-style at a Captain D’s restaurant not far from the Shoney’s. Reid was able to enter the restaurant before it opened by pretending he wanted to apply for a job. He robbed the restaurant, ordered the two employees into a cooler, then shot them in the head execution-style as they lay face down on the floor.
Reid’s fingerprint was found on a movie rental card in Hampton’s wallet, which Reid had discarded along the roadway. Two days after the killings, Reid used some of the cash from the robbery to prepay the lease on a car. Reid received two death sentences on April 20, 1999.
Reid was convicted of the March 23, 1997, murder of three Hermitage McDonald’s employees, Ronald Santiago, 27, Robert A. Sewell Jr., 23, and Andrea Brown, 17, and attempted murder of Jose Alfredo Ramirez Gonzalez. Reid waited until closing time at midnight to pull a gun on Gonzalez and another worker as they took garbage to the trash bin. He ordered them back into the building, robbed the restaurant, which was just a few miles from the Captain D’s, and ordered them and two other employees into a storeroom. Then he shot all but Gonzalez execution-style in the head as they lay face down. Apparently running out of bullets, Reid stabbed Gonzalez 17 times before leaving him for dead. Gonzalez survived and identified Reid as the killer. (Reid received three death sentences for the murders on May 27, 2000.)
A month later, Angela Holmes, 21, and Michelle Mace, 16, were kidnapped in a robbery at a Baskin-Robbins ice cream store in Clarksville, about 50 miles northwest of Nashville. Reid waited until closing time, about 10 p.m., and convinced the two young women to open the door. He then drove them to nearby Dunbar Cave State Natural Area where he slashed their throats.
Reid was arrested in June 1997 and linked to the murders after attempting to kidnap and kill the Shoney’s manager who fired him. He was convicted and condemned in three separate trials - one for each set of murders. Reid received two death sentences for the Baskin-Robbins murders on Sept. 22, 1999. Hours from a scheduled execution date in April 2003, Reid resumed his appeals after receiving ‘sign from God’. Seventeen immediate family members of Reid’s victims had planned to witness the execution and were gathered at an undisclosed location awaiting a bus ride to the prison when the execution was called off. Jerry Jackson, father of Sarah Jackson, 16, one of Reid’s first victims, declined to comment when contacted at home after the stay was issued.
UPDATE: The Tennessee Supreme Court granted a stay of execution for Paul Dennis Reid Junior, convicted in the 1997 slayings of seven people in Nashville and Clarksville. Reid was to have been put to death by lethal injection on October 5th, but the court granted his request for a stay and reset the execution for next June 28th. Reid has been convicted of three incidents of multiple murder during a three-month period in 1997. He received seven death sentences for the string of murders at fast-food restaurants in Nashville and Clarksville. Reid was a Texas drifter who moved to Nashville to attempt a career in country music. The October 5th execution date was for two of the murders. Both the Supreme Court and the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals have upheld Reid’s convictions this year after he filed appeals.
http://www.prodeathpenalty.com/Pending/05/oct05.htm
In other circumstances, he’d be called a homeless person.
Homeless people never, ever commit crimes; because when they do they’re never called homeless.
_Feb. 15, 1997: Paul Dennis Reid fired from his job as a cook and dishwasher at a Shoney's restaurant in Donelson, a Nashville community.
_Feb. 16, 1997: Steve Hampton, 25, and Sarah Jackson, 16, are found slain execution style at a Captain D's restaurant in Donelson.
_March 23, 1997: Ronald Santiago, 27; Robert A. Sewell Jr., 23; and Andrea Brown, 17, are shot and killed in a midnight robbery at a McDonald's in Hermitage, a Nashville community near Donelson. Another employee, Jose Alfredo Ramirez Gonzalez, is stabbed 17 times and left for dead, but survives.
_April 23, 1997: Angela Holmes, 21, and Michelle Mace, 16, are kidnapped in a robbery at a Baskin-Robbins ice cream store in Clarksville, 50 miles north of Nashville. Their throats are slashed and their bodies are dumped at Dunbar Cave State Natural Area.
_June 1, 1997: Reid is arrested after going to the home of the Shoney's manager who fired him and attempting to kidnap and murder him.
http://www.jacksonville.com/apnews/stories/042603/D7QL8NVG0.html
Time for Bill O’Reilly to send his reporter to park on Todd Campbell’s doorstep.
On what legal excuse was the execution delayed?
The undercurrent in this country for vigilanti-ism is growing every day, as Judges let the murdered's families suffer while the criminal pursues college degrees and other benefits from taxpayer expense, while delaying his deserved execution indefinitely.
And oh-uh! I just read that Reid has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. That is going to put a kink in everything for sure...
Will and judgement of the people is thwarted again by a lieberal man in black.
I wonder what the difference between race and ethnicity is?
Any judge who stays an execution should do so under penalty of execution himself, if no good reason for the stay is provided.
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