US: 1,000 Executed By Lethal Injection And Counting
A man who went on a 1992 Christmas holiday killing spree that left six people dead, including an 18-year-old mother gunned down at a pay phone, was executed last Tuesday, the state’s second execution in two weeks and the 1,000th lethal injection in the U.S. since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.
Marvallous Keene, 36, who was convicted in five of the murders, chose not to file a late appeal over his death sentence.
He died by lethal injection at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville — seven days after Ohio’s last execution. It was the fastest turnaround since the state executed two inmates in six days in 2004.
The Ohio Supreme Court, in denying a request last month to delay Keene’s execution, said it would schedule future executions at last three weeks apart so that public defenders will have more time to prepare clemency cases for inmates who wish to pursue it.
Ohio has one execution scheduled per month through until February 2010.
Keene and three accomplices went on a three-day murder and robbery rampage in Dayton that began on Christmas Eve 1992.
Victims included Sarah Abraham, 38, a convenience store clerk shot in the head after handing over $30 from a cash register, and Marvin Washington and Wendy Cottrill, two teenage acquaintances who Keene feared would tell police about his crimes.
Predictably the UK sidled up behind the skirt of the EU who, via the rotating Presidency, issued a sanctimonious call for the US to stop punishing their mass murderers. TheEye is curious…do countries like China and the US just treat such statements as the posturing political chaff that they are and simply ignore them, or do they issue official replies?
“Bugger off and mind your own business” would seem an appropriate official response.
Like it or not, it’s up to the US to decide what they want to do in their own country*….that’s called “sovereignty” which is an concept alien to our EU masters. It’s freedom for the people to decide their own future through the ballot box – which in the UK of course would mean a return of the death penalty, withdrawal from the EU and McDoom being strung up by his balls from Traitors’ Gate.
*Including electing a bloke who may have been born in Kenya as President.
Here’s one from 2007
“230 years ago, our forefathers fought a war to throw off the yoke of a European monarch and gain the freedom of self-determination. Texans long ago decided that the death penalty is a just and appropriate punishment for the most horrible crimes committed against our citizens. While we respect our friends in Europe, welcome their investment in our state and appreciate their interest in our laws, Texans are doing just fine governing Texas.”