Posted on 06/25/2013 10:21:17 AM PDT by South40
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Jim Willett remembers the night of Dec. 6, 1982, when he was assigned to guard a mortuary van that had arrived at the death house at the Huntsville prison.
"I remember thinking: We're really going to do this. This is really going to happen," says Willett, who was a captain for the Texas Department of Corrections.
When the van pulled away early the next morning, it carried to a nearby funeral home the body of convicted killer Charlie Brooks, who had just become the first Texas prisoner executed since a Supreme Court ruling six years earlier allowed the death penalty to resume in the United States.
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I think we pay too much for death row...it should only have a permanent population of one....and when one moves in, one moves out.
I don’t know if it deters them but it sure as heck gets rid of them. :-)
Richard Ramirez, the "Night Stalker" was convicted of 13 counts of murder and 5 counts of attempted murder. After nearly 30 years on death row he recently died in prison from natural causes.
It's probably for the best anyway. I read somewhere that Texas has done away with the whole last meal deal because some guy in the legislature got tired of these guys ordering all sorts of crap and not eating it. Now if the soon-to-be-dearly departed is feeling peckish then they get what the general population is getting. There's no fun in reading what the swill-du-jour is.
Five ropes. No waiting!
My point: It is a permanent deterrence to recidivism.
In a related story, criminial recidivism is at an all time low in Texas and an all time high in California.
I read the book about him. I’ll never forget the account of the morning after they figured out who he was. Ever read it?
It’s ‘grim’ killing innocent people. It’s not grim when those put to death are the animals and psychopaths of the world...
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Pu$$y.
Get another job if that's the way you feel - we don't need you working in that capacity in our state.
“Society order and civilization tends to advance when we value the lives of innocent people and demand swift justice from their murderers. It tends to decline when we don’t.”
Well put.
I scoff when liberals say the death penalty is not a deterrent. For that one convict, at least, he/she will never commit another crime. Nothing is a better deterrent for repeat violent predators.
And if three witnesses verify they saw you do what you did and you’re convicted, you move to the front of the line... other states want to get rid of the death penalty... Texas is puttin’ in an EXPRESS LANE!
—Ron White
You read a book about who?
So true.
Good point. 500 innocent babies are killed about every 3 1/2 hours in abortion clinics across America, but the left mourns for the 500 sociopaths who have received the death penalty in Texas over past 30 years.
532 people were murdered in Chicago last year.
--Robin Harris (Bebe's Kids fame)
Leftards mourn for the 500 dead perps in Texas, but only offer as “choice” the rationale for the 55 million babies murdered since Roe v. Wade.
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