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Okla. death row inmate executed in shooting death
AP via Yahoo! ^
| 5/1/12
| TIM TALLEY
Posted on 05/01/2012 10:08:27 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
McALESTER, Okla. (AP) The clanging of prison bars coincided with a death row inmate's last breaths Tuesday night as was he executed for killing a Tulsa convenience store manager almost 37 years ago.
Michael Bascum Selsor, 57, had already uttered his last words to his son and his sister at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. It was the end of more than three decades of legal proceedings, in which Selsor was twice convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to die for the Sept. 15, 1975, shooting death of Clayton Chandler.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; US: Oklahoma
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Took long enough.
To: Slings and Arrows
I drove by McAlester so many times on my way to Dallas, San Antonio or Austin.
That place always looked scary to me.
Probably less so after tonight.
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posted on
05/01/2012 10:11:50 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
05/01/2012 10:12:28 PM PDT
by
onedoug
To: Vendome
I drove by McAlester so many times on my way to Dallas, San Antonio or Austin. That place always looked scary to me.
I always thought the Oklahoma State Penitentiary looked like a prison was supposed to look.
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posted on
05/01/2012 10:20:41 PM PDT
by
okie01
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
05/01/2012 10:21:24 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
To: Slings and Arrows
37 years longer than his victim and all on the taxpayers’ dollars.
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posted on
05/01/2012 10:21:57 PM PDT
by
bgill
To: Slings and Arrows
I drive through there every time I go to Fort Smith. If it took them 37 years to kill this POS. It should take them century’s to pop me for speeding.
To: Slings and Arrows
To: bgill
Considering that he was convicted in the 70’s, it’s a miracle that he drank the cocktail at all. But yes, 37 years is ridiculous.
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posted on
05/01/2012 10:43:47 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
The article said the convict got a lethal three-drug mixture but the headline said he was shot.
Damn editors need to go back to school. How about "Oklahoma death row inmate executed for murder", or would that be to prejudicial?
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posted on
05/01/2012 10:44:20 PM PDT
by
higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
To: BigCinBigD
I wouldn’t be sure of that - the state gets a lot more revenue from speeding tickets than executions.
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posted on
05/01/2012 10:45:01 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: higgmeister
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posted on
05/01/2012 10:46:02 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
05/01/2012 10:46:21 PM PDT
by
Semper Mark
(Oh. Who's being naive, Kay?)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
05/01/2012 10:56:13 PM PDT
by
Shadowstrike
(Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
To: Slings and Arrows
I was joking. Actually I like McAllester. I always make a pit stop there on the way back to Dallas. That prison North of Atoka gives me the creeps, I honk and wave when I pass by.
To: BigCinBigD
Fair ‘nuff. Like Richard Pryor said, “Thank heaven for penitentiaries!”
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posted on
05/01/2012 11:30:45 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
Look guys. We're human. As such, we are known to make mistakes. I, for one, don't want to be falsely accused, mistakenly convicted, and wrongfully executed. So I want a capital convict to get every chance to PROVE his or her innocence.
That said,...37 FREAKING YEARS!!!???
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posted on
05/02/2012 12:51:19 AM PDT
by
Wingy
(Don't blame me. I voted for the chick. I hope to do so again.)
To: higgmeister
The article said the convict got a lethal three-drug mixture but the headline said he was shot.???
Has the headline been corrected?
To: Slings and Arrows
>"I wouldnt be sure of that - the state gets a lot more revenue from speeding tickets than executions."Crime doesn't pay. Traffic violators do.
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posted on
05/02/2012 1:13:02 AM PDT
by
rawcatslyentist
("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
To: rawcatslyentist
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posted on
05/02/2012 1:27:05 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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