Posted on 01/29/2020 3:42:32 PM PST by nickcarraway
The Board of Pardons and Paroles declined Tuesday to grant clemency to Donnie Lance, a 65-year-old inmate whose execution looms.
Attorneys for Lance have motions before several courts to halt his death, but barring any last minute intervention, he is expected to be executed after 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson. The method of death will be a lethal injection of pentobarbital, punishment for the 1997 brutal murders of Lance’s ex-wife Joy Lance, 39, and her boyfriend, Dwight “Butch” Wood Jr., 33.
The inmate’s children, whose mother was Joy Lance, pleaded with the board to spare his life. Jessie Lance and his sister Stephanie Cape, who are in their 30s, have also in recent months unsuccessfully called for new DNA testing to confirm whether he committed the crime. Other relatives of the victims went to the meeting to argue in favor of Lance’s execution.
Clemency hearings are closed to the public.
In a letter attached to the clemency petition, the children said the pain of losing their mother would be compounded if the state kills their father. “We have spent our whole lives with this huge gaping hole in our hearts,” the siblings wrote, “but at least we’ve had dad at our sides. It’s almost impossible to imagine that it could get worse.”
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Those kids are messed up. I am sorry for them.
One of the "pro" people had a sign saying "Have A Seat,Ted".
22+ years to carry out a sentence that Judge Roy Bean could have carried out in <22 hours!??
Denial is more than just a big river in Africa.
Bundy was executed on my birthday. I celebrated.
HOORAY Board of Pardons and Paroles. Thank you.
Can you travel to Texas and get some movement on Nidal Malik Hasan (Ft Hood murderer)?
WTF? Sorry armed forces.
Kind of reminds me of the Menendez Bros. How some of the jurors felt sorry for them because after they murdered their parents they were poor orphans.
Say what?
Not a comment on this particular case, but lethal injection as a method of execution.
We should go back to hanging, firing squads, electric chairs.
That’s punishment.
Being put down like a beloved pet is too compassionate for the guilty.
Honestly, I don’t care how it gets done as long as they get put down.
There is mountains of Fentinyl and heroin around in government custody. They should use that as the substance of choice.
The DA down there didn’t even bother to try Hasan for the murdered civilians. He got a free pass on that. And it appears that the feds will never administer justice.
I wish the DA down there would man up and try the terrorist for capital murder.
The state of florida had just passed the seatbelt law in our state at that time. We had a saying “ I’ll bucket up when Ted bundy does”.
In florida it’s the law!
I remember at the time when Bundy rode the lightning, somebody in the room flickered the light switch on and off. Everybody laughed out loud.
Thanks very much, PAR35. I did not know that. BUMP!
Condolences to family and friends of the murdered.
love
I am ok with executions in general and the means to that end should not necessarily involve pain for the sake of pain (torture). If there is pain coincidental to the methodology then that too is part of the deterrent effect. The main deterrent should be the swiftness in which the punishment is meted out. 20 years after the fact is hardly a deterrent
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