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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It was funny, because the successful ID made of him by police was completely unknown to him, as he was in Arizona. The news was understandably HUGE locally, and he just strolls right into town with absolutely no idea what had happened there in the previous 12 hours. Hehehehehe....:-)
That is a large criminal population as Huntsville is the main prison in Texas. I know where criminals go when they are let out of that prison. They are given money for bus fair and you will see them sitting on benches at the bus station. Many will get tickets to GALVESTON.
Galveston is the end of the land mass and they appear to want the ocean. I psychologically tested patients and ex-criminals would be referred to me and I would go to Galveston where they were to test them. They had lodging at a half way house, then they had no place to go after that. They tried to live on the beach and I wouldn't be on that beach after dark for any amount of money.
Galveston homes were regularly burgled by these ex-criminals. I wouldn't live in Galveston, either.
In a SHTF situation, if they were turned loose in Huntsville, they would, one way or another, go down Hwy. 45 to Galveston. I would stay off Hwy. 45 if that happened.
I knew people who worked at Huntsville prison. Until someone told me, I didn't know the part of the prison where the prisoners are, is not air conditioned. Talk about being miserable in prison in Texas heat.
I have been supportive of capital punishment but I am growing increasingly uncomfortable with allowing our government to execute citizens.
Just sayin’
Joe Arpaio probably has that one right, keeping them in open-air tents.
bus “fare”
I recall hearing that then San Francisco mayor Dianne Feinstein made information public about the type shoes worn by the killer. Ramirez saw on TV as she made those comments and ditched the shoes, a move that hindered the investigation.
DiFi, so stupid she had no idea that she was aiding and abetting a serial killer.
Yes, she was into sex and drugs from a very early age. She and a male friend used a pick ax to off her ex and his girlfriend and she told of having orgasms at each whack. They were both sentenced to death but he died in prison. She later claimed to have found religion and married the prison chaplain. The religion angle and model prisoner was used for retrials but didn’t fly.
I suspect it would be cheaper for Texans in the long run if these individuals were given e-tickets for one-way Southwest flights to NYC.
“it should only have a permanent population of one....and when one moves in, one moves out.”
With a 48 hr max residency in this quick exit visa system. (48 hr max from time of sentence to needle time)...and for you who thinks that is not fair, it more time than the perp gave the victim(s).
The answer to your question is, “yes”, and many who were within hours of execution that were later proven innocent.
If you think prosecutors would not knowingly convict an accused they knew to be or were most likely innocent, you would be mistaken. Happens all the time. Even when a previously convicted person is declared actually innocent and exonerated by DNA evidence, the prosecutor most often insists the guy was guilty.
What about those who are exonerated later on.
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Referenced examples, please.
I’ve never heard of such a thing, much less seen it documented.
I stand to be corrected, but want to see the analysis.
Check out this web site.
http://www.innocenceproject.org/
Lots of exonerations. There are other organizations that do this kind of work, as well. To think an innocent man has never been executed is naive.
Think of it as Planned Perp-hood.
Bravo!
“What about those who are exonerated later on.”
What about them? And how many of the 500 executed in Texas were later found to be innocent?
And where is ‘exoneration’ for the millions of babies condemned to death by the abortionist, and instantly ‘executed’?
And while we are at it, let’s get rid of the needle...it is time to bring back the gallows...ala Ft Smith, Arkansas...public executions! And in EVERY state...
An hour’s work for Joe Stalin or Chairman Mao.
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