Ohio man executed for fire deaths of 5 children

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[JoeProBono]

LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) -- An Ohio man said he was "heartily sorry" before he was executed Tuesday for the murders of five children in a 1992 Cincinnati apartment fire he set in an attempt to destroy evidence of a burglary.

William Garner, 37, died by lethal injection at 10:38 a.m. at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility....

[JoeProBono]

This undated file photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows William Garner. Garner, 37, died by lethal injection at 10:38 a.m., Tuesday, July 13, 2010, at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, for the murders of five children in a 1992 Cincinnati apartment fire he set in an attempt to destroy evidence of a burglary

[Farmer Dean]

18 years before the children got justice.I hate Ohio at times.

[tatsinfla]

true but at least they did the job...unlike alot of other states.......

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

I guess burning him alive would have been cruel and unusual. Or maybe just unusual.

[Carley]

In NJ they don’t even bother with the death penalty.

[svcw]

This line from his lawyers was interesting. function on the level of a 14-year-old at the time of the deaths.

So what? 14 year olds know if you burn people they will die.

[JPG]

Not a bad idea. Option 1: Execute in the exact same way that the victim(s) died. It might make a difference. Bad disease needs strong medicine. Option 2: Life with zero chance of parole (zero means zero) in less than ideal conditions.

[exhaustguy]

I don’t normally watch The Closer, but it was on this weekend, and an episode was pretty good.

SPOILER ALERT

The main character in California was able to solicit the confessions of a multi-state serial killer by threatening to send him to Texas which proceeds faster than California (she showed the number of executions for a period of time in Texas versus California - a bunch in the Texas file, none in California file). He gave it up because he did not want to die.

The cop from Texas then manipulated her by showing her all the faces of the victims. She then changed her mind after the confession and authorized sending the killer back to Texas. It was a great moment. The cop from Texas was showed as a real professional also seeking justice who was wilier than the main character.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

When I was 14 I sure as hell knew better than to burn down a building, even an empty building, let alone one filled with children. He should have been executed many years ago.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Law and Order had a similar plot. They got a confession and a guilty plea out of a creepy serial killer who had lived in Houston by showing him a phony extradition request from the Houston DA. They told him unless he plead to the New York homicides they'd send him down to Texas where he'd get the needle for sure in a couple of years. God bless Texas.

[exhaustguy]

Yes. Angie hang em high Harmon . I loved that character (Abbie Carmichael). The show went to hell when she left. Can’t say I think up of her new show, but we have had only one episode (Rizzoli & Isles).