Posted on 08/31/2006 4:40:06 PM PDT by COEXERJ145
(August 31, 2006)—Texas death row inmate Derrick Frazier received a lethal injection just after 6 p.m. Tuesday in Huntsville for the 1997 slaying of a South Texas woman and her son.
Earlier in the day the US Supreme Court refused to halt the execution.
Frazier was one of two men sent to death row for the slayings of 41-year-old Betsy Nutt and her 15-year-old son, Cody, at their home on their Refugio County ranch.
Frazier's partner, Jermaine Herron, was put to death three months ago.
Frazier was the 20th Texas prisoner executed this year.
That's one more than all the executions last year in the nation's busiest capital punishment state.
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Texas Execution Ping!
Justice is served.
Too bad they could only die once, and died so damned easy!
Hell isn't even half full... we need more of this.
another one bites the dust
Thank you my young FRiend! The latest Inductee into the Greater Huntsville Flatliners' Club is now assuming room temperature. My guess is he never thought of today when he shot that woman and her son. I feel great sadness for her husband as now he has to go home with justice having been finally served. May God Bless him.
That doesn't look like Ole Sparky to me unless you are a moth.
I just hope he remembers to give our regards to Tookie. :-)
I approve of capital punishment, but Texas' lethal injection just gives me the willies.
What ever happened to a good old fashioned hanging or the electric chair? Or perhaps the Hispanic tradition of el garrotte for the growing Spanish speaking population?
Well, we are a civilized State. They even get whatever they want for a last meal (so I've heard).
Don't forget Angel!
(Assume Howard Cosell Voice): "Down goes Frazier!!!"
The last meal tradition is something else I disagree with.
When someone dies, their bowels often give way and funkify the entire death chamber. The wardens should really be fasting the condemned prisoners and giving them a colonic lavage before execution to keep a more orderly penitentiary.
Some time ago, one could go to the State of Texas Death Row web sight and read what the inmate requested for his last meal and what he was served. They no longer have this information online, I don't know why.
But I recall that it was pretty comical. They would request steak, and get a ground beef patty. They'd ask for a fancy dessert, but they won't get it -- instead they'd get something bland.
So, to satisfy a minor curiosity, the "condemmed man" here in Texas doesn't get to dictate his last wish. Far from it. It is a meaningless gesture. As it should be, I might add.
Hey, Angel was going to rise from the dead, remember? LOL!
Actually they only get what is available in the prison commissary usually or something special if it's readily available and someone at the prison will go get it for them. Some have requested special Ice Cream or moonpies and stuff like that
I wonder if the mother and son they murdered had an easy death as well?
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