Death-row inmate who killed self didn’t know of new hope

The Columbus Dispatch ^ | August 6, 2013 | Alan Johnson

[Berlin_Freeper]

Convicted killer Billy Slagle killed himself not knowing about an undisclosed plea deal that could have spared him from execution.

As his attorneys hurriedly prepared a last-minute appeal to file with the Ohio Supreme Court seeking a stay of execution — with the promise it would not be opposed by the state — Slagle took matters into his own hands. He hanged himself in his Death Row cell at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution in the early morning hours of Sunday.

[skeeter]

Slagle, 44, was to be lethally injected at 10 a.m. on Wednesday at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility near Lucasville for the 1987 murder of 40-year-old Mari Anne Pope, his neighbor in Cleveland. He stabbed Pope 17 times with scissors while she was babysitting two young children.

This is the only part of the story worth considering.

[0.E.O]

Convicted killer Billy Slagle killed himself not knowing about an undisclosed plea deal that could have spared him from execution.

Great sense of timing.

[liberalh8ter]

So, things went well - despite his attorney’s intervention. I love a happy ending.

[discostu]

Where’s Nelson Muntz when you need him?

[C210N]

Apparently the drugs for capital punishment are hard to come by these days...

So, good news, as it leaves more of the drug available for other cases.

[Lmo56]

"Geez - I hate when that happens ..."

[exit82]

And the problem is exactly what?

He lived 26 years after he murdered his victim.

[oh8eleven]

... for the 1987 murder of 40-year-old Mari Anne Pope
It took 26 freakin' years to kill this guy? Sick.

[Blood of Tyrants]

At least he saved the taxpayers a lifetime of prison costs.

[RinaseaofDs]

Look at the money we saved.

[Berlin_Freeper]

The state of Florida on Monday executed a longtime death row inmate who believed he was the “Prince of God”

[DarrellZero]

Boo freakin’ hoo.

[DoughtyOne]

Correction. It seems it took him 26 years to do the right thing. We (”the people”) never did.

[Catsrus]

This is the reason libs argue that it costs more to execute a prisoner than to be imprisoned for life. If they would allow them to have their appeals - and when those fail - just get on with the lethal injection, it would save a lot of money. But, they drag it out for 20-30 years before they are executed. This is nonsense!

[GeronL]

He saved the taxpayers some money at the end I guess.

[freedombird]

and....today is Wednesday.....3 days later......is he back?....No?

Guess he was wrong.....

[hal ogen]

Finally this murderer acquired good judgment.

[livius]

I agree. Yesterday in Forida, they executed a guy who had killed 8 people in an apartment (as they came in to a party). They probably weren’t very nice people either, since he had gone to the apt to kill somebody he thought had cheated him on a drug deal. But they didn’t deserve to die. They were probably all black too, I assume.

He also killed a young white couple (both of them were 17) in a park after raping the girl. He was being put to death for the first 8 murders.

Btw, his murders were in the 1970s. The families of those 10 people have waited some 40 years for justice to be done to this thug.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Freakin’ boo-hoo!