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September 10, 2014
Despite another round of drug-based appeals, Missouri and Texas both able to complete executions today
As reported in AP article here and here, both Missouri and Texas completed execution today. Here are the leads from the two AP piece:
From Mizzou: "A Missouri inmate was put to death Wednesday for killing two people during a restaurant robbery in 1998, the eighth execution in the state this year and the 10th since November. Earl Ringo Jr., 40, and an accomplice killed delivery driver Dennis Poyser and manager trainee JoAnna Baysinger at a Ruby Tuesday restaurant in Columbia in the early hours of July 4, 1998. Poyser and Baysinger were shot to death at point-blank range.
"The Department of Corrections said Ringo was executed at 12:22 a.m. by lethal injection and pronounced dead at 12:31 a.m. Courts and Gov. Jay Nixon had refused to halt the execution over concerns raised by Ringo's attorneys, who, among other things, questioned Missouri's use of a pre-execution sedative, midazolam. Attorneys argued that the drug could dull Ringo's senses and leave him unable to express any pain or suffering during the process."
From Texas: "A man convicted of gunning down his former common-law wife and her brother more than two decades ago in Houston was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday evening. Willie Trottie's execution was carried out about 90 minutes after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his last-day appeals. He had contended he had poor legal help at his trial and questioned the potency of the execution drug."
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Four justices would have granted a stay in Ringo's case, one justice for another matter. So, 4/9 of the USSC find this a troubling issue, not the first time multiple justices (at least twice three or more) were concerned with the use of drugs post-Baze. No justices dissented in the Texas case.
Posted by: Joe | Sep 10, 2014 10:08:40 PM
I would like the lawyers who protected these murderers for decades to be arrested, tried for an hour's fair trial, and put to death, especially those on the appellate benches. These delays for the sake of rent seeking and generating lawyer make work jobs are truly criminal plunder of the tax fisc, returning no value to the taxpayer.
Posted by: Supremacy Claus | Sep 11, 2014 12:37:29 AM
