Posted on 09/17/2002 3:45:19 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP
Execution by Lethal Injection "People think this is all painless and stuff like that. It ain't! Basically, they [the condemned] suffer a lot. They are sort of paralysed but they can hear. They drown in their own fluid and suffocate to death really. Yeah! We get problems. Sometimes the guy doesn't want to get onto the table. But, we have the largest guard in Texas here. He gets them on that table, no problem. They are strapped down in seconds. No problem. They go on that mean old table and get the goodnight juice whether they like it or not."
Assistant Warden-in-Charge of Executions, Neil Hodges, to the author, 1987
I just found this:Execution by Lethal Injection "People think this is all painless and stuff like that. It ain't! Basically, they [the condemned] suffer a lot. They are sort of paralysed but they can hear.....
That sounds like his opinion to me. I think if death by injection were really as he describes, the LIBS would have howled a long time ago.
I understand that they give them a sedative first that calms them and makes them very sleepy, and when they inject the deadly stuff it's pretty quick, and humane.
Parolee executed for 1989 Dallas slaying
09/18/2002
HUNTSVILLE, Texas - A convict with a history of assaults was executed Tuesday for raping and fatally beating and slashing an 80-year-old Dallas woman during an attack at her home more than 13 years ago.
Jessie Joe Patrick already was on parole when evidence showed he crawled through a window and killed Nina Rutherford Redd, who lived alone a few houses away from him.
Patrick, 44, was pronounced dead at 6:17 p.m. CDT, seven minutes after the lethal dose began.
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He declined to make a final statement, but smiled and nodded to his wife, brother and other relatives as they entered the chamber.
His wife, Hester Patrick, repeatedly said, "I love you."
As he gasped and sputtered when the drugs began taking effect, his wife began wailing, and at one point she cried out: "Bastards!"
Then in the moments after her husband lost consciousness and before being examined by a physician who pronounced him dead, Hester Patrick bitterly denounced the death penalty and criminal justice system.
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"I hope you all are satisfied now," she said. "You should be ashamed of yourselves."
Patrick's attorneys filed last-ditch appeals in the federal courts to try to block the punishment. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected his final appeals about an hour before he was executed, making him the 25th condemned killer to be put to death this year in Texas.
Earlier appeals also were unsuccessful to have DNA testing of some evidence in hopes of exonerating him. Prosecutors argued a state district judge who agreed to the tests had no authority to do so and evidence against Patrick was overwhelming.
"This was not his first go-round with the law," recalled Jerri Sims, the former Dallas County district attorney who prosecuted Patrick for capital murder for the July 8, 1989, slaying. "It was so brutal. And, of course, he had no remorse."
Patrick's Austin-based lawyer, Keith Hampton, also questioned Patrick's mental competence, saying the former landscaper was mentally retarded and putting him to death would be unconstitutional.
There was no IQ test for Patrick, however, to quantify Hampton's contention.
Sims said the possibility of mental retardation never surfaced at his trial.
Patrick, his girlfriend and their infant son, had moved recently into the neighborhood in the Pleasant Grove section of southeast Dallas, and Redd had allowed them to use her phone and gave them milk for the child.
On the night of the killing, court records show he had been drinking and had tried to rape his girlfriend.
Redd's 78-year-old sister, who lived next door, discovered the body.
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"Our prayers are for the Patrick family during this sad time of grief," Redd's family said in a statement released after the execution. "This is not a vendetta or a social event. We all hurt and hope the Patrick's can understand our grief for the past 13 years waiting for justice to be done..."
"Our family will always grieve for the way Nina die."
Police questioning neighbors began suspecting Patrick when his girlfriend said it appeared the distinctive wood-handled and square-tipped butcher knife found lying next to Redd's body appeared to be his.
Detectives found Patrick's palm print outside the victim's bathroom window sill. A sock in a trash can at Patrick's home was stained with blood that matched the victim. A dentist testified a bite mark on the slain woman's wrist matched Patrick's dental impression. Hairs at the slaying scene matched Patrick's hair.
Police arrested Patrick two weeks later at his sister's home in Jackson, Miss. When officers arrived, he was hiding under a bed.
Jurors deliberated about 50 minutes before convicting him of the slaying. It took the same jury less than 45 minutes to decide on the death sentence after three women testified Patrick either had assaulted or raped them in a drunken rage.
Patrick, a Los Angeles native, first went to prison in September 1985 for aggravated assault. He was released on probation after serving less than four months of a four-year term, but returned six months later as a parole violator. Less than six months later, in January 1987, was paroled to Dallas County.
Patrick declined to speak with reporters in the weeks preceding his execution date. On a Web site used by inmates to attract penpals, he offered assurances to potential correspondents that "I am not an animal, but rather a down-to-earth person."
Another lethal injection was set for Wednesday. Ron Shamburger, 30, was condemned for the 1994 fatal shooting of Texas A&M University student Lori Baker during a burglary at her College Station home. Shamburger was a fifth-year senior at A&M at the time.
Hot Damn!!! NEXT!!!
"Mentally retarded" and yet he passed his high school equivalency exam.
I knew that when the court opened up that can of worms all the lawyers'd start wiggling.
As for the new widow: There're plenty of other creeps out there. Maybe she can start a "pen-pal" relationship with a child molestor or rapist, and eventually remarry. I see this has become all the rage among the twisted female community.
Resendez-Ramirez got married last year, I believe.
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