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  • Killer of 3 to be first execution of 2003 - Texas inmate remorseful, wrote a poem for the jury...

    01/14/2003 2:37:40 PM PST · by MeekOneGOP · 50 replies · 1,050+ views
    Associated Press ^ | January 14, 2003 | Associated Press Staff
    Killer of 3 to be first execution of 2003 01/14/2003 Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas - Death row inmate Samuel Gallamore says the bloody 1992 slayings of a partially paralyzed woman, her husband and their daughter didn't have to happen. "Things went wrong, terribly wrong," Gallamore said last week from death row. "I am sorry. I have no problem giving my life in payment, but I only have one life and I take responsibility for all three." Gallamore, scheduled to be executed Tuesday night, would be Texas' first execution of the new year. Six others also are set to die...
  • Bad To The Last

    01/14/2003 4:25:19 AM PST · by fporretto · 12 replies · 159+ views
    The Palace Of Reason ^ | 01/14/2003 | Edward Mick
    January 14, 2003 Well, Illinois Governor George Ryan did it. He commuted the sentences of 167 convicted murderers from death to life imprisonment. To really understand the depravity of what Ryan has done you need to examine his likely motivation. To do this, though, you need a little background. Ryan is a profoundly corrupt and unpopular governor who's been known as a behind-the-scenes dealmaker his entire career. It was during his tenure as Illinois' Secretary of State that driver's licenses were routinely given to unqualified applicants in return for bribes. Driver's tests were fixed and licenses were given to hundreds...
  • Obtained: Secret DPRK-China Pact(1986) To Capture/ Return (for Execution) Defectors from N. Korea

    01/07/2003 6:47:12 AM PST · by AmericanInTokyo · 9 replies · 246+ views
    R.E.N.K. (In Japanese) ^ | 6 January 2003 | RENK (Organization) in Japan
  • DID KOPP HAVE HELP?

    12/29/2002 11:57:14 AM PST · by Marianne · 22 replies · 702+ views
    The Buffalo News ^ | December 29, 2002 | Jerry Zremski, News Washington Bureau
    The more you look at James C. Kopp, the less he looks like a loner. Authorities say they have no proof that anyone joined Kopp in plotting the October 1998 murder of Dr. Barnett A. Slepian of Amherst, or that a wide conspiracy aided Kopp during his 21/2 years on the lam. Nevertheless, investigators and abortion rights advocates said Kopp had help, maybe before the shooting and certainly afterward. "There must have been a support network that moved him to Mexico to Heathrow to Manchester to Scotland to Ireland," and finally to France, where he was captured in March 2001,...
  • Pa. Police Kill Boy, 12, After Car Chase

    12/24/2002 9:25:15 PM PST · by TheOtherOne · 217 replies · 296+ views
    UNIONTOWN, Pa. -- A 12-year-old boy was shot and killed by state troopers after he led them on a chase in a stolen car, authorities said. Michael Ellerbe led troopers on a chase Tuesday afternoon, crashed the car and then tried to run away, state police said. While chasing the boy, the troopers shot him, police said. He was pronounced dead at a hospital. Troopers Juan Curry and Samuel Nassan have been placed on administrative leave, pending an internal investigation. Police declined to discuss the incident further, citing the probe. Uniontown is located about 40 miles south of Pittsburgh.
  • U.S. Executes Pakistani Man in Virginia

    11/15/2002 7:39:34 AM PST · by A2J · 9 replies · 260+ views
    AP ^ | 11/15/02 | ADRIENNE SCHWISOW
    JARRATT, Va. (AP) -- A Pakistani man who gunned down two CIA employees outside the agency's headquarters was executed under tight security in Virginia, while armed soldiers patrolled the streets in his hometown in Pakistan to guard against retaliation. No violence had been reported by Friday evening. Aimal Khan Kasi, given a lethal injection, softly chanted "There is no God but Allah" until he lost consciousness Thursday night at the Greensville Correctional Center. His execution focused international attention on the tiny town of Jarratt, where security around the prison was greatly increased in response to warnings from the State Department...
  • Pakistan Fears Backlash For US Execution Of Killer

    11/14/2002 4:07:32 PM PST · by blam · 35 replies · 314+ views
    Independent (UK) ^ | 11-15-2002 | Phil Reeves
    Pakistan fears backlash for US execution of killer By Phil Reeves in Lahore 15 November 2002 Pakistan was bracing itself for a backlash over the execution in America of Aimal Khan Kansi, a Pakistani who admits murdering two CIA agents, and who said yesterday that he would do it again. As the hour of his death by lethal injection drew closer – it was scheduled for 2am today, British time, the 38-year-old's only hope was a last-minute intervention from the Supreme Court or the Governor of the state of Virginia. Yesterday, calm and composed, he gave an interview in his...
  • Cop Killer Paroled!!

    01/30/2002 9:16:30 PM PST · by Coleus · 80 replies · 1,147+ views
    Trantino beginning transition to normal life Sunday, January 28, 2001 By RANDY DIAMOND Trenton Bureau There are no bars on the windows of the four-story house in a residential section near Newark's downtown. The front door isn't locked. But the wiring on the windows, which is connected to an alarm system, is a reminder to the 90 men who live in this building and several adjoining brownstones that they are not yet entirely free. They are state prisoners living in a halfway house. And before they can shed the role of inmate, they must complete an intense, rule-oriented, therapeutic six- ...
  • Israel says Jenin operation to last several days; Fatah executes woman in Nabuls

    10/26/2002 6:36:16 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 11 replies · 184+ views
    The Israeli army completed Saturday morning its withdrawal from Palestinian-controlled areas of the West Bank town of Hebron, Israel Radio reported. Israel's Hebron brigade commander handed to the Palestinian governor of Hebron security responsibility over the city. Meanwhile, the Israely army continued Saturday a major new operation in Jenin -"Operation Vanguard". It was expected to take several days and was said to be the largest in the city in more than six months. A senior Israeli officer said that they were readyfor an "indefinite stay" in Jenin to prevent new attacks inside Israel. Meanwhile, a 39-year-old Palestinian woman was executed...
  • Woman testifies that Carrs killed her friends in a soccer field [Wichita Massacre Day 3]

    10/10/2002 4:06:34 AM PDT · by KS Flyover · 40 replies · 1,434+ views
    The Wichita Eagle ^ | 10/10/02 | Ron Sylvester
    Woman testifies that Carrs killed her friends in a soccer fieldAn inexpensive hair clip may have deflected the bullet that was intended to kill her. Thu, Oct. 10, 2002 - BY RON SYLVESTER - The Wichita Eagle A 25-cent plastic hair clip may be responsible for pulling together the capital murder case against Jonathan and Reginald Carr. The hair clip helped save the life of a woman who on Wednesday identified the Carr brothers as the men who raped and robbed her and four friends before shooting them and leaving them for dead in a snowy soccer field. Investigators...
  • Serial killer Wuornos' last hours at hand

    10/08/2002 10:30:20 PM PDT · by RedBloodedAmerican · 69 replies · 1,341+ views
    Daytona NJ ^ | 10.09.02 | By HENRY FREDERICK (henry.frederick@news-jrnl.com)
    Wednesday, October 09, 2002 Serial killer Wuornos' last hours at handBy HENRY FREDERICK (henry.frederick@news-jrnl.com) Staff Writer With a last-minute appeal rejected Tuesday by the state's high court, the nation's highest-profile female serial killer is set to be put to death this morning by lethal injection. Wuornos How Lethal Injection Works • The condemned inmate is strapped to a gurney at the feet, legs, chest, arms and head, with an intravenous drip started in each arm. • The inmate is then wheeled into the execution chamber and the executioner begins emptying eight syringes into one of the IV tubes. • The...
  • Two Hispanics Sought In DC Area Killings

    10/04/2002 8:29:34 PM PDT · by joesnuffy · 129 replies · 1,049+ views
    World Net Daily ^ | 10/4/02 | World Net Daily
    HOMELAND INSECURITY 2 'Hispanics' sought in D.C.-area hunt Be-on-lookout alert describes shooters' race Posted: October 4, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Paul Sperry © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com By Paul Sperry ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Police in the Washington suburb where five people were gunned down in two days are looking for two "Hispanic" men in the fatal shootings, according to a police bulletin that federal authorities shared with WorldNetDaily. Montgomery County Police in press conferences have described only the gender, not the race, of the two suspects -- one a driver and the other the shooter. The be-on-the-lookout, or BOLO, alert that...
  • Aggie killer to be executed.

    09/18/2002 9:03:21 AM PDT · by moyden · 49 replies · 157+ views
    Death Penalty News ^ | 9/15/02 | Colleen Kavanagh
    LIVINGSTON, Tex. - With a single gunshot in 1994, Ron Scott Shamburger went from a college senior to a capital murderer. Now he is within days of being executed. The East Texas native with boy-next-door looks shocked the Texas A&M University community when he murdered fellow Aggie Lori Ann Baker, 20, during what he says was a botched burglary at her College Station duplex. But others believe that Shamburger had an obsession with Baker, stalked her and intended to kill her all along. Whatever the reason, Texas plans to execute him in Huntsville on September 18. Shamburger says he is...
  • Man set for execution today in 1989 slaying of neighbor - seeks stay from SCOTUS for retardation

    09/17/2002 3:45:19 AM PDT · by MeekOneGOP · 29 replies · 307+ views
    The Dallas Morning News ^ | September 17, 2002 | By TANYA EISERER / The Dallas Morning News
    Man set for execution today in 1989 slaying of neighbor Relatives remember kindness of Pleasant Grove woman, 80, attacked in her home 09/17/2002 By TANYA EISERER / The Dallas Morning News Nina Rutherford Redd couldn't imagine the danger that lived two doors away from her. In 1989, after a man moved into her neighborhood with his teenage girlfriend and infant son, Ms. Redd tried to help the struggling couple, giving them milk for their baby and access to her phone. Several weeks later, the man broke into the 80-year-old woman's Pleasant Grove home and beat her and raped her...
  • Texas court denies review of condemned Mexican citizen's case

    08/13/2002 9:32:34 AM PDT · by 4America · 10 replies · 280+ views
    Houston Chronicle ^ | August 13, 2002 | By SUZANNE GAMBOA
    <p>WASHINGTON -- A Texas appeals court refused to review the case of condemned Mexican citizen Javier Suarez Medina on Monday, even as Mexican officials promised to appeal his execution to the U.S. Supreme Court.</p> <p>Also Monday, Mexico President Vicente Fox released a letter sent to Texas Gov. Rick Perry asking him to halt Suarez Medina's scheduled execution and calling the punishment "illegal."</p> <p>Suarez Medina, 33, is to die by lethal injection Wednesday in Texas. He was convicted in 1989 of killing a Dallas police narcotics officer.</p>
  • Court says first death row inmate under 1995 New York law cannot face execution

    07/09/2002 9:32:57 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 3 replies · 260+ views
    Associated Press ^ | 7-9-02 | JOEL STASHENKO
    <p>ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) --  The first man condemned to death under the state's 1995 capital punishment law cannot be executed because the law was unconstitutional at the time his case was tried, New York's highest court ruled Tuesday.</p> <p>The Court of Appeals ruled 6-1 that the law at the time of Darrel Harris' trial violated his constitutional right to a trial by jury by offering him an incentive -- avoiding death -- if he pleaded guilty and accepted the sentence of life without parole.</p>
  • Secrecy of Japan's Executions Is Criticized as Unduly Cruel

    06/30/2002 8:20:56 AM PDT · by ItsBacon · 20 replies · 336+ views
    NYT (Registration required) ^ | 6/30/2002 | Howard French
    June 30, 2002 Secrecy of Japan's Executions Is Criticized as Unduly CruelBy HOWARD W. FRENCH SAKA, Japan, June 24 — When the hangman failed to summon him from his cell by late December, Toshihiko Hasegawa, a convicted murderer, reckoned that, by the practices of Japan's penal system, he had at least one more year to live. After weeks of intense foreboding over the approach of death, Mr. Hasegawa wrote his adoptive mother to tell her that he could at last breathe freely again for one more year, when he expected that his execution watch would resume. "It seems that...
  • Teacher's aide held in home invasion killing

    06/29/2002 8:33:45 PM PDT · by Coleus · 8 replies · 170+ views
    <p>A 26-year-old New York man was charged yesterday as an accomplice in the execution-style murder of a 72-year-old Englewood man, and a third suspect remained at large as Bergen County authorities tried to piece together a burglary and slaying they say may have been linked to the victim's criminal past.</p>
  • Man who killed 5 in family executed

    06/25/2002 10:07:55 PM PDT · by Illbay · 5 replies · 162+ views
    The Houston Chronicle ^ | June 26, 2002 | Mike Tolson
    Man who killed 5 in family executed By MIKE TOLSON Copyright 2002 Houston Chronicle HUNTSVILLE -- Almost 10 years after he killed his adoptive parents, two sisters and brother-in-law in a gruesome scheme to claim his inheritance, Robert Coulson was put to death by injection Tuesday night, still insisting he was wrongfully convicted. "I'm innocent," Coulson said in a brief final statement from the gurney. "I had absolutely nothing to do with my family's murder. I want to thank the people who supported me. I hope they will continue the fight. That's all." As the flow of lethal drugs was...
  • Documents: Routier planned insurance scam before slayings - Darin Routier

    06/21/2002 6:08:03 PM PDT · by MeekOneGOP · 15 replies · 1,100+ views
    The Dallas Morning News ^ | June 22, 2002 | By HOLLY BECKA / The Dallas Morning News
    Documents: Routier planned insurance scam before slayings 06/22/2002 By HOLLY BECKA / The Dallas Morning News Darin Routier asked his father-in-law whether he knew anyone who would burglarize his home as part of an insurance scam months before his sons were killed, according to affidavits made public Friday by his wife's defense lawyers. Robbie Gene Kee, stepfather of convicted child-killer Darlie Routier, first told his wife about the conversation two years ago, according to the lawyers. He wrote out his affidavit last month. Last year, a private investigator hired by the defense confronted Mr. Routier, who first denied having...