2005: Hastings Arthur Wise, workplace shooter

ExecutedToday.com ^ | November 4th, 2013 | Headsman

[CheshireTheCat]

On this date in 2005, Hastings Arthur Wise was executed in South Carolina for a shooting rampage at his workplace.

Or rather — and this was the problem — his former workplace.

Canned from his machine-operator job of four years at the Aiken County R.E. Phelon engine manufacturing plant that July, Wise warned that he’d be back.

On September 15, 1997, he turned up packing a 9 mm pistol and exacted his revenge — just another of America’s endless cavalcade of mass shootings.

He shot a guard to get into the plant. The guard survived, but four others were not so fortunate as Wise stalked through his former employer’s halls screaming and firing. Police later recovered four empty eight-round magazines.......

[Gay State Conservative]

On the morning that Ted Bundy was executed in Florida there were many pro death penalty demonstrators outside the prison...many carry signs. One of the signs read “Have A Seat,Ted”.