Man Who Burned Woman Alive Executed At Lucasville

[The Straight Story]

Man Who Burned Woman Alive Executed At Lucasville

LUCASVILLE, Ohio — A man who was convicted of burning a woman alive in the trunk of her car was executed Wednesday morning.

Daniel Wilson, 39, died by lethal injection at the state prison in Lucasville at 10:33 a.m.

He was the first inmate executed in Ohio since the state revised its protocol to allow executioners to administer an additional dose of sedative if needed.

The U.S. Supreme Court denied Wilson's appeals Tuesday.

On Tuesday evening, Wilson was calm and compliant and spent nearly four hours visiting with relatives, friends and a priest, prisons spokeswoman Andrea Carson said. He finished his requested special meal through the night and had a cup of tea in the morning, but skipped breakfast.

http://www.10tv.com/live/content/local/stories/2009/06/03/story_execution.html?sid=102

[Deja Q]

1. I'm angry about this.

He burns a woman, alive, who suffers for rather a long period of time or died...

He gets a quick death.

I think most people can put 1 and 1 together and fathom where I'm going on this.

Mind you, he's spent all that time in prison... free room and board, cable tv, better health benefits... probably lots of sex too but that one's none of our business...



(oops, misread the OP subject line. :blush: )

[Donald Ian Rankin]

8. How confident of his guilt are you?

Have you personally reviewed all the evidence? If he confessed, have you checked he wasn't blackmailed or intimidated or covering up for someone? Could he have been framed.

I think there are arguably crimes horrific enough that killing people who commit them is an appropriate response. I do *not*, however, trust the state to identify and kill these people without killing other people to; the only way to avoid executing innocents is not to execute anyone, even people who do things as horrific as the thing this man was convicted of doing and almost, *but not quite*, certainly did.

[Rebubula]

17. Judging...

...by the details of the story, it seems as the convicted man went into great detail of how it went down.

There are many cases that give weight to ending the death penalty - this is not one of them.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

2. Good

[Owl]

3. Good.

[NightWatcher]

4. the death penalty is wrong, regardless of the monster executed

[Bill McBlueState]

7. right on

You can't really be against the death penalty and go around making exceptions for particularly heinous cases.

[rurallib]

19. agreed. A quick death can be a relief from a life in captivity.

[wyldwolf]

5. To quote Samuel L. Jackson, "yeah he deserved to die and I hope he burns in hell."

[dionysus]

6. rofl...isn't that chapelle playing samuel jackson?

[wyldwolf]

10. You tube link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMGMZsKXz94

[dionysus]

23. you'll like this then;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYj_24uzW8k

[BeGoodDoGood]

9. He Got What He Deserved

There is no reason in the world to keep this person as a burden on the tax payers until he died of natural causes.

None.

[NightWatcher]

12. um , it's cheaper to let them live to 100 years of age instead of killing them

all of the automatic appeals cost more money than 3 and a cot for a hundred years

[spanone]

24. state sanctioned murder...

[HughBeaumont]

11. I actually have a personal connection to this story.

The victim in question was the older sister of a former co-worker. All of us were sick to our stomachs reading this and were just horrified for weeks as to how someone could do this like it were nothing.

Not to excuse what he did, but Daniel Wilson was (surprise) frequently abused as a child and teen.

[Oregone]

13. State sponsored murder makes my heart feel fuzzy when they deserve it!

But otherwise, ya know, Im anti-death penalty, except for the exceptions I constantly create for people who disgust me.

[The Straight Story]

15. I am against the death penalty except when I am for it

:evilgrin:

[safeinOhio]

14. Even if I was innocent

I'd rather the sedative and other shot than a lifetime in prision,

[proteus_lives]

16. Good.

[gratuitous]

18. And now there are two people murdered instead of one

Many that live deserve to die; many that die deserve to live. Can anyone bring back the dead?

[driver8]

20. I sat on a murder trial where the accused had set the victim on fire.

Poured gas on him and then torched him. This was after he had beat the shit out of him and the victim was practically unconcious.

We gave him second degree murder -- but it wasn't a death penalty case.

Pretty heinous...

[mitchum]

21. A moratorium on the DP is needed, but since there isn't one yet...

I have no problem with that fucking monster being removed from this life

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

22. Let's suppose this had happened in Maine. Or New York. Or Italy.

Would you posters of posts consisting only of the word "good" be lamenting the gross miscarriage of justice?

(Things like that DO happen in that places, as murderous madness pops up randomly everywhere for no particular reason.)