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Texas scheduled to execute white supremacist convicted of strangling woman
Posted on 11/6/19 at 9:33 am
Posted on 11/6/19 at 9:33 am
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A 38-year-old man is scheduled to be executed in Texas on Wednesday, 14 years after he was convicted of strangling a woman so she would not tell police about a drug house where he and members of his white supremacist gang gathered.
Justen Hall, 38, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. CST (0000 GMT) at the state's death chamber in Huntsville for the murder of Melanie Billhartz on Oct. 28, 2002.
According to prosecutors, Ted Murgatroyd, a recruit of Hall's gang, got into a fight with Billhartz that day in her truck on a trip to a convenience store in El Paso County.
When the pair returned to the drug house where gang members were gathered, Hall decided to killed Billhartz so she did not report the fight or the drug house to police, according to court documents.
Hall left the house with Billhartz in her truck and returned five hours later with her body in the back of the cab. He then ordered Murgatroyd to get a shovel and machete and go with him to New Mexico where they buried her body, court records said.
A month later, Hall confessed to police after they pulled him over while he was driving Billhartz's truck. Police found Billhartz's body and later determined that she was strangled with an electrical cord, according to court records.
In 2005, Hall was convicted and sentenced to death. Two years later, Hall filed an appeal challenging the DNA evidence. But in 2016, he withdrew the DNA appeal and asked for an execution date to be set.
“I have done this because I believe it's time for justice to be served, and to give the victim's family closure,” he wrote to the district attorney, according to court documents.
Hall would be the 19th inmate in the United States and the eighth in Texas to be executed in 2019, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Texas has executed more prisoners than any other state since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.
On Monday night, South Dakota executed a man convicted of fatally stabbing a former doughnut shop co-worker during a 1992 burglary.
(Reporting by Brendan O'Brien in Chicago; Editing by Peter Cooney)
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Posted on 11/6/19 at 9:34 am to TechDawg2007
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“I have done this because I believe it's time for justice to be served, and to give the victim's family closure,”
very kind of him.
Posted on 11/6/19 at 9:34 am to TechDawg2007
:wellbye:
Posted on 11/6/19 at 9:35 am to TechDawg2007
Execute him and the rest of his "gang."
Posted on 11/6/19 at 9:35 am to TechDawg2007
We love our state sanctioned murder don’t we folks?!
Posted on 11/6/19 at 9:36 am to TechDawg2007
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Hall has requested a Popeye's Spicy Chicken sandwich made by a black woman named Lucille as part of his last meal.
Posted on 11/6/19 at 9:37 am to TechDawg2007
This seems like a slippery-slope. We shouldn't execute people just because they have ideas that we don't like and they strangle women. Where does this thought policing end?
Posted on 11/6/19 at 9:37 am to Draconian Sanctions
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We love our state sanctioned murder don’t we folks?!
I believe that's an illegal killing. Not a state sanctioned execution.
Posted on 11/6/19 at 9:38 am to TechDawg2007
17 years later? At least he showed some form of dignity at some point by no longer appealing the death penalty. Coulda started that path earlier in his life and avoided all of this.
Welp, see ya later.
Welp, see ya later.
Posted on 11/6/19 at 9:41 am to LCA131
Uh huh and who wrote that definition?
Posted on 11/6/19 at 9:43 am to Draconian Sanctions
Lol @ downvoters. I’m always amazed by these “small government” types, who don’t trust the government to administer a food stamp program, but somehow do trust it to carry out executions of its citizens.
Posted on 11/6/19 at 9:47 am to TechDawg2007
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“I have done this because I believe it's time for justice to be served, and to give the victim's family closure,”
Well that was mighty white of him
Posted on 11/6/19 at 9:48 am to Draconian Sanctions
It's not the government's job to give you food or protect you or provide education. It's the government's job to tell you what drugs you can do and kill people who break rules.
Posted on 11/6/19 at 9:51 am to Space Cadet
Posted on 11/6/19 at 9:51 am to Draconian Sanctions
“Eye on the TV
'Cause tragedy thrills me
Whatever flavor it happens to be like”
'Cause tragedy thrills me
Whatever flavor it happens to be like”
Posted on 11/6/19 at 9:52 am to TechDawg2007
Bye, a-hole.
Posted on 11/6/19 at 9:55 am to Space Cadet
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It's not the government's job . . .
The "government's job" is set out in a statement of purpose in its founding document. You should look it up sometime.
Posted on 11/6/19 at 9:55 am to Draconian Sanctions
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but somehow do trust it to carry out executions of its citizens.
What the frick does this even mean? Are they not executing him? Do you not think the execution will work? Small government doesn't mean no government, nor does it mean we don;t punish criminals.
Posted on 11/6/19 at 9:55 am to Harry Morgan
Killed by the husband
shot by his own son
She used a poison
in his tea
And kissed him goodbye
That's my kind of story
It's no fun until someone dies
shot by his own son
She used a poison
in his tea
And kissed him goodbye
That's my kind of story
It's no fun until someone dies
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