Man executed for killing off-duty prison guard groans: 'It burns, man'

Associated Press ^ | May 5, 2018

[confederatecarpetbag]

— A Georgia inmate executed Friday for a 1996 shotgun slaying twitched briefly as the lethal injection flowed into his body and groaned, “It burns, man.”

Robert Earl Butts Jr., 40, was declared dead by a prison warden at 9:58 p.m. after the compounded barbiturate pentobarbital was injected into his body. Prison officials said he had declined to take a sedative.

Butts was convicted along with 41-year-old Marion Wilson Jr. in the March 1996 slaying of Donovan Corey Parks, an off-duty prison guard. Parks, 24, gave the men a ride outside a Walmart store in Milledgeville. The men then ordered him out of the car and fatally shot him, prosecutors said.

[confederatecarpetbag]

Yes, I imagine it did burn. I have a feeling this burn was only a foretaste of a far more severe - and everlasting - burning sensation. I hope he made peace with his Maker beforehand. Prayers for his family, and even more prayers for any surviving family/relations of his helpless and unsuspecting victim. Murdered for offering too hoodlums a ride. Cretins like this make it hard sometimes to want to turn the cheek.

[eldoradude]

A Georgia inmate executed Friday for a 1996 shotgun slaying

About 21+ years late but late is better than never.

[The people have spoken]

Feel the burn.

[heights]

Disco Inferno

[21twelve]

Read further about the accomplice:

“...Wilson’s case is still pending.”

I did get a kick out the guy’s last requests for anything. “I’ve been drinking coffee all day.”

[snarkytart]

Maybe it’s because I’m super sleepy, but this headline makes no sense.

[cherry]

he was 18...I feel bad for such a wasted life....

[eldoradude]

“...Wilson’s case is still pending.”

Hope they get to that before he dies of old age.

[21twelve]

I read the article looking for that. I don’t know - maybe the guy that gave them a ride said some rude things. But they didn’t mention it. But I’m guessing it is auto correct for “off-duty”. Not sure if one can blame auto-correct for a headline though - no proof readers at the paper??

[Governor Dinwiddie]

[wardaddy]

I took plenty pentobarbital in my youth

Nembutal

Felt great....didn’t burn at all

Course this fella took a hot dose

[eldoradude]

he was 18...I feel bad for such a wasted life....

Donovan Parks was only 24 and didn't get much of a life. You look at someone 18 and shake your head...old enough to know better. Shouldn't have taken that long for justice though.

[BBell]

I read about it all the time. We had a guy near me kill a taxi driver a month after he turned 18. No real reason he did it. It is a waste.

[Laslo Fripp]

The headline at the link has it correct: OFF-DUTY

[Rennes Templar]

Ridiculous it took that long. This is something else “politicians” say can’t be corrected. Once Trump drains the DOJ swamp, I hope he looks at this situation.

[Rennes Templar]

Very clumsy headline.

[cherry]

yeah, not only do they destroy another person's life and that persons family, but he destroys his own life and the life of his entire family....

vicious circle...

[BBell]

"it would be like sentencing a juvenile to death"

No, being a juvenile does not make you dumb.

[eldoradude]

I hope he looks at this situation.

Agreed, draining the judiciary is another mandatory step.

[BBell]

A vicious cycle that does not to seem to end for some. I live near New Orleans and it can be pretty depressing. Young people with no value for life coming from dysfunctional families with no value for life, other than a life being another government check.

The guy that killed the taxi driver was actually from a decent family. That is what really surprises me.