Posted on 06/25/2013 4:18:50 PM PDT by mdittmar
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.
What was unusual then has become rote. On Wednesday, barring a reprieve, Kimberly McCarthy will become the 500th convicted killer in Texas to receive a lethal injection.
(Excerpt) Read more at ksn.com ...
500 since 1982? That’s only 16 per year. It’s nothing.
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.(and the public shall enjoy a right to a speedy discharge of the the jury's decision.)
If they had executed her for the first two murders, she wouldn’t have been able to slash her neighbor to death. She was a therapist at a nursing home who preyed on the elderly. Who is against the death penalty for this sadistic monster?
WOW... 500... is that this month?... oh, nevermind... :)
I have no problem with it. The idiot feminazi’s always b*tch about equality, well don’t say we treat the women less than men :)
Ron White. “If you kill someone in Texas, we’ll kill
you back.”
The line keeps moving in Texas
I wonder if he gets a prize?
So, get on with it!
The internet sez yer off by an order of magnitude.
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/death-row-inmates-state-and-size-death-row-year#year
Meanwhile, California inmates are dying of old age at a steady rate.. and with 700 to go.. it could take a while.
How about next time you keep your dumbs a$$ remarks to yourself.
I’m sure there are more than 500 who need taken down. Speed up. Save us responsible people.
Amen. That mad dog should have been put down YEARS ago. Regardless of what the rest of the country thinks, this native Texan thinks the pace of executions in Texas is not fast enough. These criminals are sentenced to death and spend decades sitting on Death Row. They have the ability to see their families and loved ones. The same cannot be said for their victims.
As far as the other two murders for which she was not tried, this is a tactic used frequently by DA’s in Texas, probably elsewhere the death penalty is applied. Attempt to get a capital murder conviction on a single crime, but hold out other capital crimes in case the first case gets tossed on a technicality. I like the fact the Texas DA’s play for keeps.
They should have executed Andrea Yates.
Indeed. She knew what she was planning was a criminal act because she waited until everyone was gone before she murdered her children. She is not crazy. She is E-V-I-L.
She's now here in Kerrville, in a minimum security unit, getting out to go to church on Sundays. After drowning her five children. Go figure...
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