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synthisislab · 05-06-2008, 05:24 AM

I just found this recent page: http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/apr...death-chamber/
and wondered now which death row prisoner(s) you think will or should be executed. I'm not sure if he has exhausted his appeals, but Oba Chandler would be at the top of my list followed by John Errol Ferguson and William B. Cruse Jr. from my homestate alone.

SP4CE INV4DERZ · 05-06-2008, 07:46 AM

First name that come to mind when I read the title was Edward Bell. Second was Donnie Hansen.

crystaldawn · 05-06-2008, 08:23 AM

Definitely George Washington Hicks, the man who murdered Roxann Jeeves and her son Kristopher. I also second Oba Chandler.

ididn'tdoit · 05-06-2008, 09:27 AM

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Originally Posted by crystaldawn

Definitely George Washington Hicks

I second that CD, that was such a heinous crime

I would also like to see Franklin Delano Floyd and Dale Wayne Eaton (who killed Lisa Marie Kimmell) next.

synthisislab · 05-06-2008, 04:12 PM

Did all of those people get the death penalty? I thought Edward Harold Bell got 70 years, George Washington Hicks got life, and Donnie Hansen got off. Franklin Delano Floyd got the death sentence? What state was his conviction from?

Kane · 05-06-2008, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by synthisislab

Did all of those people get the death penalty? I thought Edward Harold Bell got 70 years, George Washington Hicks got life, and Donnie Hansen got off. Franklin Delano Floyd got the death sentence? What state was his conviction from?

You're right on all counts. As for Franklin Floyd, he was sentenced to death for the 1989 murder of a young Florida woman. It wasn't until 2002 when he was charged with the crime, which has no connection to either the abduction of Michael Hughes or the suspicious hit and run death of Michael's mother "Sharon Marshall."

synthisislab · 05-06-2008, 06:02 PM

Wow. I think I saw a court TV or A&E show on that case and forgotten some of the complex details. What were the circumstances of the lady he killed to get the death sentence? And didn't the court not know if Franklin Delano Floyd was his real name at one point, since he used so many aliases? Or am I thinking of a different case?

crystaldawn · 05-06-2008, 08:37 PM

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Originally Posted by synthisislab

Wow. I think I saw a court TV or A&E show on that case and forgotten some of the complex details. What were the circumstances of the lady he killed to get the death sentence? And didn't the court not know if Franklin Delano Floyd was his real name at one point, since he used so many aliases? Or am I thinking of a different case?

Cheryl Commesso was the woman he murdered to get the death sentence. I have the book on this and its very interesting. If I recall she was a friend of Sharon and Floyd's and she may have threatened to turn him on some type of government aid fraud. Anyway he ended up viciously murdering her and even taking pictures. It also seems like Floyd had put the pictures of her battered body up in the gas tank area of a pickup truck he then owned. The truck ended up eventually being sold to different people and they happened to find the pictures and turned them into the authorities. If memory serves me correctly anyway.

mozartpc27 · 05-07-2008, 12:15 AM

Much as I like to see murderers and rapists caught and imprisoned FOREVER (preferably in solitary confinement), I'm anti-death penatly. The dignity of the state is compromised by sinking to the level of those it would punish.

nohwheregirl · 05-07-2008, 10:45 AM

I also do not support the death penalty...so none of them.

AlastairSim · 05-07-2008, 11:12 AM

Scott Peterson

LiveByTheSea · 05-08-2008, 12:54 AM

Richard Ramirez aka Night Stalker. hasn't he been on death row a long time now?

synthisislab · 05-08-2008, 01:55 AM

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Richard Ramirez aka Night Stalker. hasn't he been on death row a long time now?

Yes, and I can't believe that I had forgotten him. He would be the perfect candidate. He was featured on UM pretty long after he was caught on the segment with the Original Night Stalker and he has the death sentence for nearly 20 years now. But I doubt he will ever get the needle because of the backlog of death sentence cases (nearly 700 people on death row in CA) and because CA doesn't seem to carry out that sentence very often.

Kane · 05-08-2008, 08:36 AM

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Originally Posted by synthisislab

Yes, and I can't believe that I had forgotten him. He would be the perfect candidate. He was featured on UM pretty long after he was caught on the segment with the Original Night Stalker and he has the death sentence for nearly 20 years now. But I doubt he will ever get the needle because of the backlog of death sentence cases (nearly 700 people on death row in CA) and because CA doesn't seem to carry out that sentence very often.

When it comes to states with the death penalty, California is indeed among the slowest in carrying out executions, even though a number of the state's death row prisoners are proper candidates for the needle (especially Richard Allen Davis, the degenerate scum who abducted, raped, murdered 12-year-old Polly Klaas). However, history shows that the death penalty appeals process in California wasn't always slow to the point where inmates ended up residing on death row for decades. In fact, California used to have its share of death row inmates who were executed less than ten years after a murder conviction. One such example is Aaron Mitchell, who was executed in 1967 for the 1963 murder of a police officer.

synthisislab · 05-10-2008, 03:59 PM

Yes, California has been pretty lax lately when it comes to carrying out it's death sentences. I also want to add another Florida Death Row inmate that was a serial killer in 1984 who raped and killed 10 women around the Tampa Bay area of Florida. His name is Bobbie Joe Long. He's been on Death Row for over 20 years now and has to be on Governor Charlie Crist's short-list of choices since lethal injection has been re-instated by the Supreme Court.

05-06-2008, 05:24 AM	#1
synthisislab Member Forum Regular Join Date: Mar 11, 2006 Location: Jacksonville, FL Posts: 552	Which death sentences would you like to see carried out? I just found this recent page: http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/apr...death-chamber/ and wondered now which death row prisoner(s) you think will or should be executed. I'm not sure if he has exhausted his appeals, but Oba Chandler would be at the top of my list followed by John Errol Ferguson and William B. Cruse Jr. from my homestate alone.

05-07-2008, 12:15 AM	#9
mozartpc27 Vigilante Logician Forum Regular Join Date: Mar 09, 2006 Location: Philadelphia Posts: 926	Much as I like to see murderers and rapists caught and imprisoned FOREVER (preferably in solitary confinement), I'm anti-death penatly. The dignity of the state is compromised by sinking to the level of those it would punish.
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05-06-2008, 07:46 AM	#2
SP4CE INV4DERZ 40-0 0WN3D Forum Regular Join Date: Dec 06, 2004 Posts: 630	First name that come to mind when I read the title was Edward Bell. Second was Donnie Hansen.

05-06-2008, 08:23 AM	#3
crystaldawn Member Forum 4000 Club Member Join Date: Dec 17, 2002 Location: Illinois Posts: 4,261	Definitely George Washington Hicks, the man who murdered Roxann Jeeves and her son Kristopher. I also second Oba Chandler.

05-06-2008, 04:12 PM	#5
synthisislab Member Forum Regular Join Date: Mar 11, 2006 Location: Jacksonville, FL Posts: 552	Did all of those people get the death penalty? I thought Edward Harold Bell got 70 years, George Washington Hicks got life, and Donnie Hansen got off. Franklin Delano Floyd got the death sentence? What state was his conviction from?

05-06-2008, 06:02 PM	#7
synthisislab Member Forum Regular Join Date: Mar 11, 2006 Location: Jacksonville, FL Posts: 552	Wow. I think I saw a court TV or A&E show on that case and forgotten some of the complex details. What were the circumstances of the lady he killed to get the death sentence? And didn't the court not know if Franklin Delano Floyd was his real name at one point, since he used so many aliases? Or am I thinking of a different case?

05-07-2008, 10:45 AM	#10
nohwheregirl THE Mystery Machine Senior Member Join Date: Apr 23, 2004 Posts: 1,057	I also do not support the death penalty...so none of them.

05-07-2008, 11:12 AM	#11
AlastairSim Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Jan 23, 2008 Location: OZ Posts: 13	Scott Peterson

05-08-2008, 12:54 AM	#12
LiveByTheSea Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Jan 25, 2008 Location: Iowa, USA Posts: 66	Richard Ramirez aka Night Stalker. hasn't he been on death row a long time now?

05-10-2008, 03:59 PM	#15
synthisislab Member Forum Regular Join Date: Mar 11, 2006 Location: Jacksonville, FL Posts: 552	Yes, California has been pretty lax lately when it comes to carrying out it's death sentences. I also want to add another Florida Death Row inmate that was a serial killer in 1984 who raped and killed 10 women around the Tampa Bay area of Florida. His name is Bobbie Joe Long. He's been on Death Row for over 20 years now and has to be on Governor Charlie Crist's short-list of choices since lethal injection has been re-instated by the Supreme Court.