Posted on 10/15/2012 11:37:25 PM PDT by South40
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. A South Dakota man who beat a prison guard with a pipe and covered his head in plastic wrap to kill him during a failed escape attempt was put to death Monday, in the state's first execution since 2007.
Eric Robert, 50, received a lethal injection and was pronounced dead at the state penitentiary in Sioux Falls at 10:24 p.m. He is the first South Dakota inmate to die under the state's new single-drug lethal injection method, and only the 17th person to be executed in the state or Dakota Territory since 1877.
Robert had no expression on his face. Asked if he had a last statement, Robert said: "In the name of justice and liberty and mercy, I authorize and forgive Warden Douglas Weber to execute me for the crimes. It is done."
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Strange. I’m sure that hundreds have been murdered in SD since 2007 but it’s the guy that kills the guard that gets it?
Good point. I agree. Killers of cos, guards, or law enforcement personal of any kind should be moved to the front of the line.
I think Albie was wondering if the lives of government employees are worth more than the rest of us mere citizens... same question I have.
Correct me if I am wrong.
I don’t think that, all lives are equal. I just know a cop killer is treated like a celebrity in prison wherein a man or woman who kills a child is not.
I think South Dakota better get crackin'. That's unacceptable.
I’m surprised SD executed Eric Robert. Per the article this was only the 17th person to be executed in the state or Dakota Territory since 1877. I know the population isn’t that high but 17 in 135 years seems a bit low.
SI SI SENOR HOWARD.....LET THE WORD GO FORTH LET THE MESSAGE BE SENT.....YOU TAKE A LIFE YOU FORFIET YOUR OWN....ROCKET SCIENCE THIS IS NOT....
That Roberts was executed so relatively quickly was not because he murdered a corrections officer, but simply that he pleaded guilty, waived a jury trial and did not make all the appeals that could have kept him alive for decades. The next person to be executed, Donald Moeller, has cheated justice for more than two decades. Moeller, who raped and murdered a 9 year old girl in 1990, had two complete jury trials the second with a change in venue after an appeals court found minor flaws in his first trial. He demanded and got DNA testing which conclusively confirmed he was the murderer and has filed appeal after appeal the latest being that the single drug used in executions amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.
Personally I was hoping it was rhines or moeller that they put to death.
These two definitely deserve it
Personally I was hoping it was rhines or moeller that they put to death.
These two definitely deserve it
Slackers! - Rick Perry
I have to give it to Texas, they take out their trash.
South Dakota has way less crime than most places.
Look at their entire state population...and compare it to metro areas of the US with similar population....and South Dakota does not get as many execution opportunities
Most states are trying to get away from executions...so So Dak getting back into the game is good anti-crime news
I think Albie was wondering if the lives of government employees are worth more than the rest of us “
...precisely. No death penalties since 2007 then the guard puts them over the edge? What about rape and murder combined? That surely has happened in SD since 2007. Women and children first if anything.
No, please see post 10. SD is doing a second execution within a few weeks. SD has very few people on death row and the hurdles for these cases have been cleared. While it seems like there has been an uptick over the past decade, SD probably has fewer murders in a year than Chicago does on an average weekend. I will have to look at the statistics.
Indeed they are. Subjects of the Peoples' Republik of Kalifornia like myself will be voting on Proposition 34 which seeks to abolish the DP here in Kalifornia. It has been voted on twice in the past (last time was 1978) and we voted to keep it by a margin of 71% to 29%. The political landscape has changed in the decades since so who knows how this one with turn out.
That's a fair statement.
SD has about 2.8 murders a year.
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/murder-rates-nationally-and-state#MRord
It also has a population of only 824,000.
By contrast, Obama's Chicago, with a population of 2,707,120, has on average 4.9 murders per weekend, with a median of five.
In CCW states, the possibility of being immediately sent to your afterlife by an armed victim does more to deter crime than the possibility of judicially-imposed death-penalty ever would.
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