Who Speaks for the Victims of Those We Execute?
All the time we hear about the people being executed and begin to feel remorse and start to ask ourselves why are we doing this? The antagonists of the death penalty need to start learning about the victims and the loved ones who are left behind.
Hear are some stories that may leave you bothered:
On what seemed to be one normal afternoon Katy Davis observed three strangers outside her Austin, Texas apartment. She walked away and thought nothing of the situation. She later returned and was attacked and forced to open the door by Charles Rector, on parole for a previous murder. The men ransacked her apartment, abducted her and took her to a nearby lake where she was beaten, raped, shot in the head and repeatedly forced underwater until she drowned.
Faith Hathaway had just graduated from high school and was leaving for the army the next day. She was abducted after leaving her farewell party in Mandeville, La. Robert willie and accomplce Joseph Vaccaro had been on an 8-day murder, robbery, and rape spree. Hathaway was raped by both assailants and stabbed 17 times. She was raped again after she died. Her story became the inspiration for the film Dead Man Walking.
Hear are some stories that may leave you bothered:
On what seemed to be one normal afternoon Katy Davis observed three strangers outside her Austin, Texas apartment. She walked away and thought nothing of the situation. She later returned and was attacked and forced to open the door by Charles Rector, on parole for a previous murder. The men ransacked her apartment, abducted her and took her to a nearby lake where she was beaten, raped, shot in the head and repeatedly forced underwater until she drowned.
Faith Hathaway had just graduated from high school and was leaving for the army the next day. She was abducted after leaving her farewell party in Mandeville, La. Robert willie and accomplce Joseph Vaccaro had been on an 8-day murder, robbery, and rape spree. Hathaway was raped by both assailants and stabbed 17 times. She was raped again after she died. Her story became the inspiration for the film Dead Man Walking.
Kenneth Boyd murdered his estranged wife Julie and father-in-law, Dillard Curry in Rockingham County, N.C. Julie and her children were living with Curry. Boyd entered the home and shot them both in the presence of his own children, then ages 13, 12, and 10.
In 1965, Robert Massie murdered mother of two Mildred Weiss in San Gabriel, California, during a follow-home robbery. Hours before execution, a stay was issued so Massie could testify against his accomplice. Massie's sentence was commuted to life when the Supreme Court halted executions in 1972. Receiving an undeserved second chance, Massie was paroled, but eight months later robbed and murdered businessman Boris Naumoff in San Francisco.
Ruby Longsworth of Pasadena, Texas, met Jeffrey Barney through a prison ministry, then helped him get paroled from an auto-theft sentence. Her kindness was repaid when Barney raped and sodomized her, then strangled her with a cord. She mad the mistake of calling Barney "a bum" after she had gotten to know him.