I hope your religious conversion was sincere. If not, its going to get awfully toasty where you are going.
You can read all about the late Mr. Williams on the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Webpage.
Posted on 06/26/2002 7:36:42 PM PDT by mdittmar
A man convicted of raping and killing a woman in her home in 1994 was put to death by injection Wednesday in Texas' 18th execution of the year.
Jeffrey Lynn Williams, 30, recited the 23rd Psalm just before he died.
"The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want," he said. As the lethal drugs began flowing, he said: "I thank you Lord for all good things you have given me. Bless my family."
Williams was convicted of killing Barbara Pullins, 31, after breaking into her Houston home. Prosecutors said he raped her and strangled her with the cord of an iron, then touched her body repeatedly with a lighted cigarette to make sure she was dead. He then went to the room of the woman's 9-year-old daughter and raped her.
Williams later confessed to police that he "just went off." At trial, the girl identified him from the witness stand and said he choked and punched her as she struggled. Jurors returned with a death sentence in 23 minutes.
"If a guy set out to kill like he killed, a guy shouldn't die that easy," Willie Collins, the victim's brother, said after watching the execution. "I was looking forward to it, like any other family member should."
Last year, 17 condemned prisoners were put to death in Texas. The state executed a record 40 inmates in 2000.
May he burn in hell.
Yea,yea,yea,not very Catholic of me,I know.
I hope your religious conversion was sincere. If not, its going to get awfully toasty where you are going.
You can read all about the late Mr. Williams on the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Webpage.
Like it frickin' matters.
It does...
My question would be, why'd it take so long?
We'd best get cracking if we are every going to work off the backlog of 456 criminals on death row. Even 40 per year isn't enough. Maybe have to gin up a second chamber or something.
Me too. Types like this deserve either Old Sparky or a rope. Being and electrical/electronic engineer, I'm sort of partial to Old Sparky, but the gallows does have certain, er, esthetic qualities going for it too.
Certainly. It seems to be a common practice by the politcally correct news media in this country to omit mentioning the race of the victim when the victim is white and perpetrator is black. While on the other hand, if the perpetrator is white and the victim of different a race (particularly if black), the race of the perpetrator and the victim is quite prominently mentioned. The article I just read mentioned the race of the criminal and said nothing about the race of the victims. Many people are quite puzzled as to why this state of affairs should exist in the reporting of crimes to the public by the news media.
Personally,I'm damn tired of the "date rape","hate crime" crap.
I'm glad that the state of Texas "just went off" and executed this worthless piece of excrement.
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