Posted on 02/13/2014 9:34:38 AM PST by Impala64ssa
SEFFNER --
A man was executed at Florida State Prison in Starke on Wednesday night.
Juan Carlos Chavez was pronounced dead at 8:17 p.m.
Chavez was convicted of the 1995 abduction, rape and murder of 9-year-old Jimmy Ryce in Miami-Dade County.
Ryce was abducted from his bus stop near his home. As Ryce tried escaping Chavez, investigators say Chavez shot him in the back.
Ryce's body was found dismembered in three plastic flower pots, covered with concrete three months later.
The execution at Starke was attended by a Bay area father that lost his 8-year-old daughter in 1998.
Roy Brown says he has become close friends of the Ryce family, and any support he can give them helps bring him closer to his own daughter, Amanda.
"I want justice for my daughter," Brown said during a candid interview. "I want justice for Jimmy. I want justice for all these missing kids, but they are not getting it, you know? They are getting tormented--is what they are getting."
Chavez has been on death row appealing his case for 18 years. The man convicted of abducting and killing Amanda Brown, Willie Crain, is still on death row in his second round of appeals.
"Every one of these families would have a completely different life," said Brown. "We'd have a life like you got. Not that that's wrong, but we'd have a normal life."
Brown said since his daughters abduction, he has become a supporter of families that have lost children to abductions. He also said he has pushed lawmakers to speed up the process of justice for families that have had kids abducted.
Chavez's attorney filed his last appeal last week with the U.S. Supreme Court.
Justice at last.
</sarcasm>
A happy ending, delayed.
Wasn’t this guy a teacher and about 20 of his fellow teachers in the union do a writing campaign to keep him alive?
19 years of gay prison sex for this POS. This is not swift justice.
“Chavez has been on death row appealing his case for 18 years”
There’s something very very wrong with that IMO.
“I’m from Texas and in Texas we have the death penalty and we use it. That’s right, if you come to Texas and kill somebody, we will kill you back. That’s our policy. Right now there’s a bill in the Texas legislature that would speed up the execution process of those convicted of a heinous crime with more than three credible witnesses. If more than three people saw you do what you did you don’t sit on death row for 15 years Jack, you go straight to the front of the line. Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty. My state’s puttin in an express lane.”
_Ron White
Took them long enough.
Maybe. On a related note the NEA in Wisc are trying to get legislation enacted to allow SOME convicted sex offenders to work in the public schools (A Modest Proposal, anyone?) Like that will get the people of Wisconsin to turn against Scott Walker like the unions want them to. Keith Ellison, the ONE AND ONLY MOOSLIME in the House supports this. What does this tell us?
IIRC, Death Row inmates are not allowed any contact with other prisoners, even those on Death Row. 23 hours a day confinement to their cells and 1 hour of ‘exercise’ time, alone. This may not be the case in all states, but I seem to recall a documentary about it several years back.................
I wish Pennsylvania had that attitude. We have death row inmates who live out their lives...at taxpayer expense. 18 years on death row is a short time here.. Some have been on death row 30 or more years.
Justice delayed 18 YEARS is justice denied.
Well the 14th amendment should protect NAMBLA members and their choices in life too, right... /sarc
No, different case.
The last ditch appeal by Sacco and Vanzetti’s lawyers was that the seven years between conviction and execution was “cruel and unusual punishment.” That didn’t buy them a five minute delay. Sacco and Vanzetti were murdering scum, and lived seven years too long, and set a terrible precedent. Had they been tried and executed in Texas, no one would ever have heard of them, thank God.
Water the flowers, baloney!
I’d stand in line for my turn to piss on his grave!
So there are two of them there?
The one he was thinking about was a teacher who molested a young boy but did not murder him.
But, but where is the segment in Jason Lanning’s story celebrating Chavez’ gay, homosexual, queer lifestyle?
Must be an oversight.
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