Posted on 03/09/2016 6:47:53 PM PST by Olog-hai
A man convicted of killing five people including his ex-wife in a 1997 shooting rampage near Houston was put to death Wednesday.
Coy Wesbrook’s lethal injection was the eighth this year nationally and fourth in Texas, which carries out capital punishment more than any state. Two Georgia inmates have been executed so far in 2016, plus one each in Alabama and Florida. […]
Wesbrook killed his ex-wife, Gloria Jean Coons, 32; her roommate, Diana Ruth Money, 43; and three men: Antonio Cruz, 35, Anthony Ray Rogers, 41, and Kelly Hazlip, 28. …
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Good grief about damn time.
This will surely deter him from committing another murder
Happy the deed is done, sorry it took so long.
1997. That’s what I call swift justice.
Not.
Better late than never.
The article doesn’t say what his last meal was. They used to include that.
Lawyers getting paid to keep people like him alive are paid by the state which gives them incentive to keep filling appeal after appeal. They don’t care one whit about the criminal, it’s all about the money they get. The longer they can drag it out the more money they make.
I think that TDCJ has done away with the “last meal” request. In 2011, one of the inmates requested a last meal that would have fed everyone on Death Row for three days, then chose not to eat it. So the “last meal” tradition for condemned Death Row inmates in Texas is now gone.
Texas doesn't give condemned prisoners a last meal anymore. A few years ago one guy about to be executed gave them an order for a LOT of food, and then he didn't eat it. One of the legislators didn't like that and he got a bill passed doing away with last meals.
Personally, I believe the last meal should be re-instituted. It's a traditional thing; the state letting the prisoner know that it's no hard feelings. By accepting the last meal, the prisoner demonstrates that he/she understands that.
Unlike the way the French used to do it. Waking up the poor shlub at 4 in the morning without any warning, telling him that his final appeal was turned down and he would soon get de-noggin-ated. All the dude got was a cigarette and a glass of whiskey.
“All the dude got was a cigarette and a glass of whiskey.”
Considering the circumstances, preferable to corn flakes or scrambled eggs.
“Only thing cruel about death penalty is last-minute stays.” - El Rushbo
I would like to have the writer of this article tally and total the number of dead and wounded victims of those few who have been executed (he listed the number executed recently and by state but not the number of their victims).
I think a list like this, covering the past 20 years of executions and the number of those killed and wounded by these killers (and how they died), would provide us with a great argument for more executions.
An executed murderer can never kill again! (That was the title of my column in the old Baltimore News American in 1983. No one challenged me in print).
I know the AP and other Lib media put this in as a negative but I shout it from the roof tops: AMF!
God Bless Texas!
the old news post, i remember it well.
This post is going to get me in trouble . . .
I generally do not disagree with the death penalty, including this one. That said, with the possible exception of Diana Money, if you believe the scenario painted by the court and the media of the night in question, the victims were not exactly the salt of the earth.
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On November 13, 1997, Wesbrook was asked by his estranged wife, Gloria Jean Coons, to visit her. When he arrived at her house, he found her having a party with three other males and two females. Wesbrook, who had gone there with hopes of rebuilding the relationship with Coons, went into a rage when the party’s attendees began to mock him because Coons had cheated on him in the bedroom. At some point in the evening, Wesbrook noticed that his ex-wife and two of the men had slipped away, and when he went into the bedroom, he found her having sex with both of the men. Wesbrook then went to his truck and pulled out his .36-caliber hunting rifle and returned to the residence. He then fatally shot his ex-wife, all three of the males and another female in the residence. At about 2 a.m., a neighbor heard the gunfire, grabbed a cellular phone, went next door, saw the bodies, and called 911. Wesbrook was arrested at the scene.
The victims were Coons, Antonio Cruz, Kelly Hazlip, Diana Money, and Anthony Rogers. Money was Coons’s roommate.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coy_Wayne_Wesbrook
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