Shooting is break in Texas slaying

Arizona Daily Star ^ | 01/22/05 | Ignacio Ibarra

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[sharkhawk]

He served as a private and saw action in Kuwait and during Operation Iraqi Freedom

Action in Kuwait during Iraqi freedom? God, I hate the lamestream press.

[sgtbono2002]

Can I ask a Question half in jest? Texas does execute killers, At each of these executions there are always some idiots out there with candles holding death watches .

I wonder if Texas has ever given a thought to putting up a motel close to the prison for these people to stay, and maybe a diner . There could be some good money in this. How about a vendors license to sell T- Shirts with the Executees picture , some candles and maybe those sparkler things they sell at the circus.

[primeval patriot]

I'm near Tyler and I can tell you this guy is doomed.

Smith County jurors will send him to death row without batting an eyelash.

[Dog Gone]

Ben DeSoto / Chronicle

Dennis Longmire, a criminal justice professor at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, holds a candlelight vigil outside the Walls Unit each time the state executes an inmate.

Chronicle file photo

A typical Texas execution is attended by a handful of protesters. But when the prisoner's innocence is at issue, as was the case during the January 22 execution of Gary Graham, the crowds can be intense. Flag-burning was one of the ways people expressed their anger. The case focused the nation's attention on the issues of bad lawyering, the reliability of eyewitness testimony and prosecutors' aggressive pursuit of the death penalty in borderline cases. Condemned for the robbery-murder of Bobby Lambert in a Houston supermarket parking lot in 1981, largely on the identification of a lone eyewitness to the crime, Graham died proclaiming he was the wrong man.

E. Jospeh Deering / Chronicle

The Texas electric chair executed 361 inmates from 1924 to 1964 at the Walls Unit in Huntsville. Now "Old Sparky" is on display in the prison museum in downtown Huntsville and inmates executed at the Walls Unit die by injection.

E. Joseph Deering / Chronicle

Once the legal appeals are exhausted and the clemency request denied, a death row inmate is bound for lethal injection. The deadly potion is mixed in this room and delivered through intravenous tubes to the executioners table, visible through the mirrored window.

E. Joseph Deering / Chronicle

Preparing for an execution, Officer C. Peralta blocks the street between the prison system's administration building and the Walls Unit, home of the death chamber.

E. Joseph Deering / Chronicle

Texas executed a record 40 inmates last year. If life without parole were to become an option, that number would drop significantly, said University of Houston law professor David Dow.

[proudpapa]

Thanks, for the grim update, I missed that part of the story somehow.

[anniegetyourgun]

Thanking God for our second amendment rights - and for you and Mr. Chapman being armed.

[cyborg]

Relax. It's Texas. He's a goner and the victim wil receive justice. That's more than a lot of victims, black white and otherwise, get in states that don't have a death penalty.

[cyborg]

The police sketch looked NOTHING like him so he could have escaped.

[in the Arena]

From your post I cannot tell if you are being sarcastic...but whatever the means, it will still be more compassionate than the treatment he gave Megan.

[GW and Twins Pawpaw]

He'll be brought back here for trial. Then he'll go to Death Row, exhaust his appeals process, then he'll eventually become enshrined as a member of the Greater Huntsville Flatliners' Club.

[sully777]

Living in a southern pro-execution state I know this much: At the end of the day, the guilty are executed while the rare innocent is freed after much review. This past year, two people have been freed after careful review of the evidence. And my governor is reluctant to enforce capital punishment if there's problems with the conviction.

Also noticed that the black convict is executed for murdering black victims about 85-90% of the time, and more than likely was caught red-handed. The white convict is executed for murdering white victims about 85-90% of the time, and more than likely was caught red handed.

As for the 2nd Amendment, there have been a number of cases in my area this past year where perps have run into the business end of a homeowner's rifle or pistol. They lost everytime because of the expertise of the gun owners.

No doubt this is why my neighbors sleep soundly with doors unlocked at night. Gives a whole new meaning to dead-bolt.

[SandRat]

eeeYUP!

[River_Wrangler]

THANK YOU. I feel the same way.

[River_Wrangler]

Too True. Thank you.

[SWO]

Expect to see lots more of these stories highlighting the military angle.
This is one of the steps in the MSM’s ongoing effort to turn IRAQ into Viet Nam.
I have already seen;
Homeless IRAQ veteran stories.
An article predicting a flood of psychologically wounded OIF veterans needing help.

It is funny, the Military is often accused of preparing for the last war by the same MSM which is still reporting on one that happened three decades ago.


Here’s a question for folks who live in the area of either Texas or Arizona where this hapened. Have any of the papers and TV stations highlighting this criminal’s Marine past covered anybody from your local area being decorated for heroism?
How about a story on the Marine Officer who got the Navy Cross?

Waiting, drums fingers on the desk, sound of crickets chirping. . . . . .

[Dave278]

A write up in todays paper stated he also robbed a store in Odessa, Tx while on the way to Arizona. The DA in Irvin Tx announced that they will ask for the death penalty. I hope its a swift trial with a swift sentance.

[ErnBatavia]

http://www.thememoryhole.org/deaths/texas-final-meals.htm

[SandRat]

Maybe they'll even use the new Texas Express Lane to the needle.

[ColoCdn]

Yep, my error. I should have let you know I was being sarcastic. But, you're right. Whatever they use, it won't be harsh enough to match what he did to her.