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Six killers were executed in August 2001. They had
murdered at least 11 people.
Two killers were given a stay in August 2001.
They have murdered at least 2 people.
| Date
of scheduled execution |
State |
Victim
name |
Inmate
name |
Status |
|
August 8, 2001 |
Texas |
Donald Franklin
Johnson, 43
Bob Murray |
Mack
Hill |
executed |
| Mack Hill was
convicted of the March 3, 1987 murder of Donald Johnson during a robbery
in Bowie, Texas. Donald knew then 35-year-old Mack HIll and had been
partners with Hill in several failed businesses. Donald was shot in
the head once with a .25-caliber pistol and his body was found in a
55-gallon drum, wrapped in plastic and then covered with concrete and
dumped in a lake. The barrel was found by a game warden several months
later. Hill was seen with Donald's truck and camper trailer after Donald's
disappearance, and also had sold stolen items from Donald's paint and body
shop at a flea market. Hill had a previous conviction for aggravated
robbery with a deadly weapon and had served less than four years of a
twelve year sentence and was on parole when Donald was murdered.
Hill's accomplice received a 20 year sentence for robbery. Hill had
previously killed Bob Murray, the father of his estranged wife. He
was murdered on December 20, 1978. Bob was shot to death, wrapped in
a blanket tied with belts and dropped in a well. His body was not
found until August 11, 1981. |
| Date of scheduled execution |
State |
Victim name |
Inmate name |
Status |
|
August 15, 2001 |
Texas |
John
Luttig, 63 |
Napolean Beazley |
stayed |
| Napolean Beazley and 2 friends
spotted John Luttig's Mercedes Benz on the night of April 19, 1994, and
followed it to the Luttig home in an affluent neighborhood of this East Texas
city of 75,000. The plan was to steal the car and sell
it to a Dallas "chop shop." Luttig pulled into his garage and got
out of the car. Beazley shot the 63-year-old man twice in the head with a
.45-caliber handgun. Bobbie Luttig dropped face down on the garage floor to
hide. She could see her husband bleeding on the pavement. She thought she was
going to die. Speeding from the Luttigs' home, Beazley damaged the car and
abandoned it on a nearby street. The 3 men, Beazley and brothers Cedrick and
Donald Coleman, fled back to their home town of Grapeland, about 70 miles
southwest of Tyler. A year later, the Colemans were in prison and Beazley was
on death row. The Luttigs' son helped put them there. "Words seem trite
in describing what follows when your . . . father is stripped away from your
life: the despair, the chaos, the confusion, the sense -- perhaps temporary,
perhaps not -- that one's life has no further purpose," his son, J.
Michael Luttig, said at the Colemans' trial. He would give similar, lengthy
testimony in Beazley's capital murder trial. It might have just been another
mid-'90s carjacking turned deadly if Michael Luttig was not one of the most
influential judges on one of the most influential federal appeals courts in
the country -- and one of the toughest appeals court when it comes to death
penalty cases. Sitting on the Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
since 1991, Luttig is apparently the only living federal judge whose father
had been slain. At the federal hijacking trial of the Colemans, Luttig
addressed the judge and described how difficult it was to receive word from a
close friend that his father was dead . . . "realizing at that very
moment, at that very moment that the man you have worshipped all your life is
lying on his back in your driveway with two bullets through his head. It
is thinking the unthinkable that perhaps the act was in retaliation for
something you had done in your own job," said Luttig. "On
behalf of my dad and on behalf of my mother and family I respectfully request
that those who committed this brutal crime receive the full punishment that
the law provides," Luttig said. Luttig made similar remarks in
Beazley's capital murder trial in state court, but did not ask for the death
penalty. Shortly after the death penalty was imposed, he was quoted by the
media as saying, "There's no one in my family that's happy about what
occurred today." However, he also said: "Individuals must be held
accountable at some point for actions such as this. I thought this was an
appropriate case for the death penalty." . . . A quicker red light, a
longer green, a wrong turn and John Luttig and Napolean Beazley might never
have met. Luttig, born in Pittsburgh, was a Korean War veteran. He
married, and raised a son and daughter. He was a petroleum engineer for
Atlantic Richfield and then he went into business for himself, supervising
wells across the country. In his private life, he was an elder at
Tyler's First Presbyterian Church and vice moderator of the Grace Presbytery
of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A., said the Rev. Dick Ramsey, former pastor of
the church. Luttig had also served on the Tyler Planning Zoning
Commission. "John was a great guy, he really was," said Jim
Rippy a friend and fellow oil man. "He was a gentlemen in everything he
did -- outgoing, he had kind of a nice wit about him and he had a good
relationship with everybody here." As part of a Christmas present
to his wife, Luttig enrolled Bobbie in a night class at Southern Methodist
University in Dallas, where she was studying for a master of divinity degree,
Ramsey said. On the night he died, Luttig had driven her to Dallas for
the 6 p.m. class, waited for her, then they drove home. Napolean Beazley,
17, was the president of his senior class. The starting running back for the
Grapeland High School Sandies his last season and a 440-relay track runner,
Beazley was headed for the Marine Corps after high school. Then, about 47 days
after Luttig was killed, a tip led police to Grapeland. 2 weeks after Beazley
graduated 13th out of his class of 60, he was arrested and charged with
murder. About 47 days elapsed between the slaying and Beazley's
arrest. "He was well-known . . . he had plenty of friends and he
did a lot of good things in his life," his father, Ireland Beazley,
said. The senior Beazley is a steel worker and city councilman in
Grapeland which has a population of 1,468. His wife, Rena, was the secretary
to the county judge. Beazley said that, in addition to football and track, his
son played baseball and lifted weights competitively. The Beazleys were
proud of Napolean. They did not know he was leading a secret life. On
April 19, Beazley took his mother's red Ford Probe and wound up in Tyler with
the Colemans. Beazley, a crack dealer armed with a .45-caliber handgun, was
looking for a car to hijack. "I went to school, I went to Sunday school
every Sunday, I walked old ladies across the street -- all that stuff,"
said Beazley, interviewed on Texas' death row. He said he wasn't using
crack at the time of the murder and he wasn't drunk, either. So, what
happened? "A lot of people ask that question. I ask myself that question,
too," said Beazley. "I can't really explain it to you, because
it would always seem like a justification. When you lay it all out . . . it
can come out as a justification and, for me, there is no justification for
what happened." With an appeal pending, there is much about the
crime that he cannot discuss. "I don't admit anything. . . . I don't say
anything about it. Let the evidence speak for itself. The testimony mostly
came from those 2 guys who were also involved in the crime." The Coleman
brothers, who received life sentences, testified against Beazley.
Beazley does not deny he was there. "They had a bloody footprint from my
shoe, they had a palm print on the body of the car that came from
me." And, he says, "I don't blame my family, I don't blame my
friends, I don't blame society, I can't blame a federal judge. I don't blame
anybody else for being here but me." During his trial, Beazley
remembers Judge Luttig testifying. He said he felt sorry for him for losing
his father. He has not tried to contact the family and apologize for
fear of hurting them further, he said. "They're going through their own
pain right now and I don't want to add to that. If I could alleviate it, if I
could take it away from them, then I would." Beazley paused when
asked if given the chance to talk to Michael Luttig what would he say?
"What can you say to somebody in that situation? No words could comfort
him, not coming from me, anyway. I don't think I would say anything. I think I
would, for once, just listen. What would I do if somebody murdered my
daddy? How would I feel?" He said he is not sure. |
| Date of scheduled execution |
State |
Victim name |
Inmate name |
Status |
|
August 16, 2001 |
Texas |
Jerry Dean, 80
Sylvia Dean, 75
Maria Lozano, 75 |
Jeffery Doughtie |
executed |
| Convicted killer Jeffrey Carlton Doughtie in 1999
dropped his options for appeals and requested that he be executed. Doughtie,
who said he wanted to be an example to kids of the results of drug use, told
state District Judge Joaquin Villarreal III he was ready to die.
"I'm not crazy," Doughtie said. "I want it done with."
Susan Nix, great-niece of 2 of Doughtie's victims, said she was relieved and
upset by his request. "His doing this grandstanding only causes
more pain for our family," Nix said. "He's seeking glory. I am
personally angry about his wanting to be a role model. I don't really think
anyone who brutally kills three elderly people can ever be a role model,"
she said. Doughtie waived his appeal options in federal court and then told
Villarreal in state court that he appreciated the way the court has treated
him. The judge then ordered a March 25, 1999 execution date. Doughtie
promised when the Texas Supreme Court upheld his conviction in 1997 he would
volunteer to be executed. The drug-addicted transient went on a crime
spree in 1993 in Corpus Christi, first killing an elderly couple who sold
antiques, then strangling and bludgeoning to death a 75-year-old woman.
He was convicted of capital murder in both cases and was sentenced to die for
the deaths of Jerry and Sylvia Dean, who owned Golden Antiques and
Collectibles. A customer came into the store on Aug. 2, 1993, and found
the couple unconscious and lying in pools of blood. Jerry Dean, 80, died hours
after the attack. His wife, Sylvia, 75, lingered in a coma for 25 days before
she died. In a written confession, Doughtie said he beat the couple,
whom he had known for several years, when they refused to loan him $30. He
stole money and jewelry from the store, including Sylvia's wedding ring.
He was also convicted for the Aug. 22, 1993, slaying of 75-year-old Maria
Lozano, who was bludgeoned with a perfume bottle and strangled in her Corpus
Christi home. Last fall, Doughtie wrote a letter requesting an April
execution, but said Wednesday he wanted to move up the date. "I
have a friend in Germany. She's coming over and I'd just as soon get it over
with," Doughtie said. Then, less than a week away from his
scheduled execution, Doughtie asked for and received a delay in his execution.
Susan Nix, great-niece of the Deans, said she had planned to attend Doughtie's
execution in Huntsville and was disappointed with his decision. He is further
hurting his victims' families, she said. "I am by no means
surprised," she said. "I had a feeling this wouldn't take place this
soon. He does seem to be on some self-satisfied glory trip." Nix said
that when she was called to Spohn Memorial Hospital in 1993, she believed her
aunt and uncle had been in a car accident. Sylvia Dean had poor eyesight and
had been in minor accidents before, she said. At the hospital, she watched
Jerry Dean die. Nix said her grief has since mellowed, but she is ready to see
Doughtie pay the ultimate price for his crimes. "I've already made
peace," she said. "But I saw the results of what he did to 2 very
good people." UPDATE: Convicted killer Jeffery Doughtie was
executed Thursday for using a metal pipe to fatally beat an elderly couple at
their Corpus Christi antiques shop after they refused to give him money to
support his $400-a-day drug habit. "For about nine years, I've thought
about the death penalty, if it's right or wrong. I don't have the answer. But
I don't think this world is a safer place without me in it," Doughtie
said while strapped to the gurney in the death chamber. He said the punishment
should have been carried out much sooner. "Killing me now ain't hurting
me. It gave me time to say goodbye to my family," he said. He looked
toward some friends watching through a nearby window, expressed love and
thanked them. |
| Date of scheduled execution |
State |
Victim name |
Inmate name |
Status |
|
August 24, 2001 |
North Carolina |
Kimberly Ewing,
28 |
Clifton White |
executed |
| Clifton White was sentenced to death on
February 4, 1994 for the 1989 stabbing
death of Kimberly Ewing. Prosecutors said
he slipped into Kimberly's house on Plainview Road off Freedom Drive and
waited for her in the dark. Then he ambushed her, striking her with a
fireplace shovel. he ambushed Kimberly Ewing of Charlotte, the young mother of
a 7-year-old, in Ewing's house. The 28-year-old Charlotte woman was tied up,
sexually assaulted and her throat
was slashed six times with a paring knife. His attorneys said White was under
the influence of alcohol and cocaine at the time of the murder and that he
should be given life without parole because he was abused as a child and
battled a drug addiction as an adult. "Those things had an effect
on him." He was also sentenced to
120 years in prison for robbery with a dangerous weapon, burglary and
kidnapping and ten years for auto larceny. UPDATE:
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| Date of scheduled execution |
State |
Victim name |
Inmate name |
Status |
|
August 28, 2001 |
Oklahoma |
Shelley Deann Ellison, 17
Donald Gary Epperson |
Jack Dale Walker |
executed |
| Jack Dale Walker, 35, is scheduled to
be executed Aug. 28 for the 1988 murders of his girlfriend, Shelley Deann
Ellison, and her uncle, Donald Gary Epperson. He fatally stabbed
17-year-old Shelly and her uncle Donald Epperson at their home near Bixby in
Tulsa County. He was convicted in 1989. Ellison had an infant son who was
fathered by Walker, and the stabbings occurred after an argument about
custody. Ellison was cut and stabbed at least 32 times, and Epperson had 11
wounds. Walker received 2 death sentences plus prison sentences totaling 40
years for felony assaults involving other family members of Ellison's.
UPDATE - Jack Dale Walker was executed by lethal injection almost 13 years
after he stabbed his estranged girlfriend and her uncle to death. Several
members of the victims' families watched the execution, including some who
witnessed the vicious attack by Walker at a mobile home in Bixby, a Tulsa
suburb. Shelly Ellison and Donald Epperson suffered deep wounds from a hunting
knife wielded by Walker, 35, on Dec. 30, 1988. Ellison, 17-year-old mother of
Walker's 3-month-old son, suffered 32 stab wounds. Epperson was stabbed 11
times. During 20 minutes of terror that began about 8 a.m., Ellison broke free
to dial 911. "I need help. He's stabbing me. I'm dead. Please," she
told the dispatcher. Children were yelling and a baby could be heard crying in
the background. Juanita Epperson, mother of Donald Epperson, also was severely
stabbed, but survived. At a clemency hearing, Walker apologized to the
victims' family "for all the pain I've caused them and for this whole
ordeal that has been tragic for a lot of people." His plea for a life
sentence was rejected after several family members gave eyewitness accounts of
the vicious attack and said Walker had been violent in the past and would be a
continuing threat. Walker, the product of a broken home, had a history of drug
and alcohol abuse. Unlike many convicted murderers, Walker had no felony
convictions, but was prone toward violence, according to Ellison's relatives.
He was only 22 when he went to the Bixby home to try to persuade his
girlfriend to leave with him by threatening suicide. But on a police tape
immediately after his arrest, Walker said he went to the home with "the
full intention of either taking the baby or murdering her or whoever got in
the way." Walker's son, now 13, wrote a letter to the clemency board in
support of his father's execution. "Sometimes I think about what life
would be like if my mom were alive, but then I come to my senses and realize
that was destroyed by one man, Jack Walker," wrote Joshua Ellison, who
has been adopted by his maternal grandparents. "I think Jack Walker
should pay for what he did to my mother. I think he should die for taking my
mom away from me." Walker said he hopes his son will forgive him when he
is older. |
| Date of scheduled execution |
State |
Victim name |
Inmate name |
Status |
|
August 28, 2001 |
Washington |
Bertha Lush
Eloise Jane Fitzner, 47 |
James Elledge |
executed |
| As a young man, James Homer Elledge
went to prison in Santa Fe, N.M., for robbing a Western Union office, where he
also kidnapped a female attendant. After his parole, he wound up in Seattle in
1974, where he killed Seattle motel manager Bertha Lush by beating her to
death with a ball-peen hammer, in an argument over his bill. In the years that followed, he won parole 3 times, most
recently in August 1995. The 55-year-old Everett man surrendered to police in
Tacoma three days after stabbing and strangling Eloise Jane Fitzner, 47, in a
church basement on April 18, 1998. Elledge promised gifts and dinner to lure
his victims to the basement of The Lighthouse church in Lynnwood, where he
worked as a custodian. Once there, Elledge pulled a large knife and ordered
the women not to scream or he would slit their throats. Both women were bound
with rope, blindfolded and their mouths taped shut. The 39-year-old woman said
she could hear Eloise struggling and Elledge dragging something from the room.
The woman said Elledge told her he had "taken care of" Eloise,
because she interfered with his attempts to get close to her. Elledge then
took the 39-year-old woman to his mobile home in Everett, where she was
sexually assaulted. He released her the next morning, and she reported the
abduction and attack to Seattle police. Eloise's body later was found in the
church basement. An autopsy showed she could have survived the stab wound to
her neck had she not been strangled. Elledge called the Tacoma Police
Department's homicide division at 9:30 a.m. three days after the murder to say
he wanted to surrender and was staying at a motel. When the detectives pulled
into the parking lot, Elledge walked out with his hands up. Earlier the same
day, Tacoma police found Eloise's car, which Elledge had stolen after he
killed her. People who know Elledge said they were stunned by these events.
Former Lynnwood City Council member Bill Hubbard roomed with Elledge between
January and March 1997, when he lived at the same Lynnwood apartments as
Eloise. "Eloise lived two floors above us," Hubbard said. "She
was a very sweet person...active in her church at University Presbyterian
Church." Elledge often did repair work at Eloise's apartment but never
accepted payment, Hubbard said. Hubbard said he knew of Elledge's murder
conviction and talked with a church elder at The Lighthouse before allowing
Elledge to move in. Elledge proved to be a responsible roommate and confided
in Hubbard about his past, Hubbard said. Hubbard said Elledge told him his
sister had died when he was young. He also told Hubbard that his wife died in
the 1960s while trying to help someone in a car crash and that their 2 girls
were raised by relatives. "Jim just never quite recovered from that whole
thing," Hubbard said. In March 1997, Elledge's daughter died, but he
wasn't able to attend the funeral services because he didn't have the money to
travel to the South, Hubbard said Elledge told him. "Considering
everything he'd been through, he was showing signs of progress and
mainstreaming back into society," said Hubbard, adding that he hadn't
seen Elledge for several months. Elledge later confessed that he walked
into the basement of the church with precut sections of nylon rope and plans
to kill a woman he simply didn't like. Elledge admitted he was carrying a
large, folding knife and a long-simmering grudge against Eloise. In a
tape-recorded statement to police, Elledge admitted purchasing rope, and
precutting it into sections for binding the wrists and ankles of Eloise, and
another woman, 39, from Seattle. The longtime convict, who is on parole for
the 1975 beating murder of another woman, also described in detail how he used
his knife to threaten Eloise and the Seattle woman into silence, and then
tying them up. "The defendant told police that Fitzner did not attack him
or resist him in any way," according to court papers. "He said that
'She ... she was trying...she was trying to cooperate. But she didn't know
what she was cooperating for." The Seattle woman has told police she was
abducted to Elledge's Everett mobile home, sexually assaulted and later set
free. Prosecuting Attorney Jim Krider said before the trial, "So far, the
criminal justice system has failed the public in protecting the from Mr.
Elledge." The task for prosecutors now is to make sure "that
the system does not fail again," he added. Elledge has prior convictions
for robbery and 1st-degree murder for beating a Seattle motel owner to death
in 1975. The woman he killed roughly 2 decades ago was struck 28 times with a
ball-peen hammer, according to court papers. Eloise's killing and the other
woman's abduction touched of a brief, but intense, manhunt for Elledge. He
surrendered to Tacoma police after trying at least twice to commit suicide in
his hotel room, according to court papers. Elledge told the police that he
killed Eloise because he was angry with her for meddling in his relationship
with his wife about a year ago. On the taped statement he gave police Elledge
can be heard admitting that because of something he describes as 'evil' in his
nature, he is sometimes filled with rage he can't control. UPDATE:
James Elledge was executed early this morning at the Washington State
Penitentiary. His course toward death was a speedy one, and Elledge, 58,
hastened it at every opportunity. James Homer Elledge went quietly to his
execution early this morning, getting the sentence he pleaded for after
murdering a woman in the basement of a Lynnwood church. Elledge told a friend
earlier that he had no intention of making a final statement, however in a
prison interview last year, Elledge said said one reason he wanted to die was
because he was a Christian, and was remorseful for his sins. He has
steadfastly maintained that he deserved to die. He instructed his lawyer to
present no evidence in the penalty phase of his trial that might encourage
jurors to spare his life. Those close to him said he viewed his impending
execution as a sort of redemption. The victim's brother planned to spend the
evening with his mother and to wait up until he heard it was over. He had
hoped Elledge's final words would be to say he was sorry for Fitzner's murder.
At the trial, Elledge told jurors those words wouldn't bring Fitzner back.
"He had an opportunity to choose his words very carefully then, so I just
don't think that was an oversight on his part," Mr. Helland said.
Prosecutors and some jurors said the brutality and pre-meditated nature of the
crime, as well as a long criminal history, which included a 1974 murder,
clearly justified both the decision to seek the death penalty and the verdict.
Jury forewoman M.L. DeMorett said in a recent letter that Elledge deserved to
die for a cold, calculated murder. "We looked for areas where the system
may have failed him," she said of jury deliberations. "Comment was
made that he had several chances in life to get beyond the past. He still lost
control and killed another person, took another life." The 2 detectives
who investigated Fitzner's disappearance and found her body chose to attend
the execution, as did the Snohomish County prosecutors who persuaded jurors to
impose the death sentence. Lynnwood police Detective Jim Nelson said he feels
little sympathy for Elledge. "I feel a lot worse about her than I do
about him. He knows what's coming, he's had a chance to make his peace with
whatever he feels he needs to do. And he did this to himself. He committed his
second murder, he's been given chance after chance." |
| Date
of scheduled execution |
State |
Victim
name |
Inmate
name |
Status |
|
August 30, 2001 |
Oklahoma |
Juan Johnny Barron,
23 |
Gerardo Valdez |
stayed |
| Gerardo
Valdez is a Mexican immigrant who had lived in Oklahoma for some time. On
May 1,1989, Valdez met the victim, Juan Barron, at a bar in rural
Oklahoma. Johnny was a homosexual who apparently showed a sexual interest
in Valdez but Valdez, a married heterosexual, rejected Barron's
advances. The testimony at trial revealed that throughout the course of
the evening Valdez consumed approximately fourteen beers. When the bar
closed, Johnny went with Valdez and his friend, Martin Orduna, to Valdez's
house. Valdez began preaching to Johnny out of the Bible, attempting to
convince him of the sinfulness of his homosexuality. When Johnny rejected
this proselytizing, Valdez brought out his gun. He began slapping Johnny,
telling him he was going to kill him and that according to the Bible
homosexuals do not deserve to live. Ordering Johnny to remove his clothes,
Valdez gave him the option of death or castration, and continued to hit
and slap him. When Johnny started to fight back, Valdez shot him twice in
the forehead and then hit him in the head with the gun. While Johnny lay
on the couch, Valdez retrieved a knife and cut his throat, finally killing
him. Valdez threatened to kill Orduna if he told anyone about the murder,
and demanded Orduna's assistance in disposing of the body. The two men
carried Johnny, the couch, and the surrounding rug to the backyard, where
they set them on fire. Three months later, the police began
investigating Johnny's disappearance. On July 25, officers executed a
search warrant for Valdez's home. Valdez conversed in English with the
officers. Because the officers had already questioned Orduna, they knew to
look for Johnny's remains in the backyard barbecue pit. There they found
what appeared to be a bone fragment. Valdez later confessed to the murder. |
| Date of scheduled execution |
State |
Victim name |
Inmate name |
Status |
|
August 31, 2001 |
North Carolina |
Ralph Childress |
Ronald Frye |
executed |
| Ronald Frye was convicted
on November 15, 1993 of first-degree
murder and robbery with a dangerous weapon in the slaying of his landlord, Ralph
Childress. Frye was convicted in 1993 of stabbing his landlord to death with
scissors. On the day of the murder, Frye returned
to his home and found a note from Ralph telling him the trailer had been
leased and he needed to move out. The next morning, Ralph was found dead -
stabbed multiple times - with a pair of scissors in his chest. Ralph was found
with scissors jammed into his heart and his throat cut. DNA testing linked
Frye to blood found on the man's mattress and linked Ralph to blood on Frye's
jacket, said Assistant District Attorney Jason Parker. "He deserves
it," Parker said, recounting events that led to Frye taking $5,000 from
Childress and spending it on drugs in 3 days. "They're trying to say one
of his lawyers was drunk," Parker said. "I sat in court with him for
three weeks and never smelled a drop." Frye said he never noticed the
smell or effects of alcohol on his attorney, Thomas Portwood, but said the two
didn't talk much. Parker said defense lawyers did introduce evidence through a
psychologist that Frye was abused as a child and abused drugs and alcohol.
"You should see what he did to the old man," Parker said. "He
tortured him trying to find out where his money was." Christy Hollowell,
Childress' niece, said of her uncle, "He was the most wonderful person.
He was an invaluable part of my family, who was taken away tragically by the
cold-heartedness of Ronald Frye. I have been told Mr.
Frye was abused as a child, but my Uncle Ralph did not abuse him," she
said. "It is always disheartening to hear about child abuse, but being
abused as a child does not give the right to kill as an adult. As
sad as it is to say, many children are abused. However, most do not grow up
and choose to murder another person," Hollowell said. "Our family
has been changed forever by the act of Mr. Frye ... Nothing will ever be the
same again because of Mr. Frye's decision to murder Uncle Ralph. It was his
decision. He decided that night to murder Uncle Ralph, knowing the
consequences that may follow. Giving up his rights and facing the death
penalty was a risk he was apparently willing to take," she said. |
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03/22/04 |
