Texas to execute inmate convicted in 1990 murder and rape

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AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas inmate Rickey Lewis is scheduled to be put to death on Tuesday for murdering a man in 1990 and then raping the dead man's fiancée.

A dozen Texas convicts are scheduled to be executed before the end of July. Texas has executed more people than any other U.S. state since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976 and last year put 15 people to death.

If Lewis' lethal injection is carried out on Tuesday evening, it would be the second execution this year in Texas and the sixth in the United States, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

He was convicted of shooting to death George Newman, 45, while burglarizing Newman's home in East Texas.

After the shooting, Lewis, then 28, raped Newman's fiancée and stole her vehicle, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The fiancée later climbed out of a bathroom window and drove to a store to call police, according to the department.

DNA analysis showed that Lewis' blood and semen matched traces found at the scene, according to an account of the case from the state attorney general's office.

Lewis already had a long criminal record, including a conviction for assaulting an 18-year-old who had gotten in the way of his attempt to burglarize her family's vehicles.

Lewis has claimed that he has mental disabilities, and those claims delayed a 2003 execution date, but his execution was later rescheduled.

Texas to execute inmate convicted in 1990 murder and rape
 
Yeah... we been off to a slow start this year. No worries, we'll get all caught up before you know it. We're scheduled to knock off the next 13 by the end of July.

Just an interesting tidbit for those who think Texas is #1 in executions. This is true in numbers but when you look at it from a per capita stance, Oklahoma has us beat by twice as much.
 
Its sad that your one of them that will execute this convict tonight. Your pretty much a murderer. Don't forget State of Texas (That is the people of State of Texas) vs convicted felon.

NitroHonda said:
Yeah... we been off to a slow start this year. No worries, we'll get all caught up before you know it. We're scheduled to knock off the next 13 by the end of July.

Just an interesting tidbit for those who think Texas is #1 in executions. This is true in numbers but when you look at it from a per capita stance, Oklahoma has us beat by twice as much.
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diehardbiker said:
Its sad that your one of them that will execute this convict tonight. Your pretty much a murderer. Don't forget State of Texas (That is the people of State of Texas) vs convicted felon.
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Can't wait. I wish they'd do it now instead of tonight. Oh well.

I have no problem with the eradication of a malformed violent offender. None whatsoever.
 
I added the 2 "Likes" for Nitro only after seeing Diehardbiker's comment......:lol:
 
i think stats wrong states excuted far more than 6...all you doing is giving someone date and time of something we all going to face and his death be lot more painless than millians of others that day....
got be better way,locking someone up deprived of any human contact no sky keep their light on permantly allow little sleep also a gun with one bullet let them decide.
 
Here is WHY I oppose death penalty

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/09/justice/arizona-jodi-arias-trial/index.html?hpt=ju_c1


Note her quote about death penalty, she wants it badly...

"Now the odds, I think, shift somewhat in her favor, because it's a very different thing to sentence someone to die than to convict them," CNN senior legal analyst Jeffery Toobin said.

In a television interview minutes after the verdict was announced, Arias said she'd prefer a death sentence.

"I said years ago that I'd rather get death than life, and that still is true today," she told Phoenix television station KSAZ. "I believe death is the ultimate freedom, so I'd rather just have my freedom as soon as I can get it."

See? She wants death than suffer in prison for the rest of life. She views death penalty as freedom from prison life. This is one of two reasons why I oppose death penalty, second reason is two wrongs don't make it right.
 
Sounds like this guy is a monster with a history and plenty of evidence to convict him of his recent crimes.
 
Throw him in maximum security prison and deal with foul smelling shit inside for rest of his life is better punishment than execution.

jonnyghost said:
Sounds like this guy is a monster with a history and plenty of evidence to convict him of his recent crimes.
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diehardbiker said:
Victims and their relatives were tortured too, they can't just die to relieve from the pain of loss. That is where I am looking for true justice. Death is just an escape from reality.
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So we should all be monsters?
 
Wait a minute. You say they should "deal with foul smelling %$^#" because it will punish him more and to me that sounds like you want to torture him. And that the death penalty would be just an escape but then you say that monster support the death penalty?

If you're against the death penalty I understand. We'll just disagree. But I'm a bit confused as to why you think tourture is morally superior to the death penalty.
 
Supposed, you had a kid of your own, and that kid was killed by monster. Will you be free of suffering the loss of your own kid for the rest of your life? Letting the killer go sleep peaceful is justifiable to you?

Secondly, killing whether it is execution or not is still MURDER period and two murders don't make it right.

Here is another good reason why death penalty is not right way to carry the justice.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/01/us/pennsylvania-woman-reappears/index.html?iref=allsearch

That poor husband was suspect at first, he could have been executed while people thought he killed his wife only to find out that his wife was still alive after 11 years. Just think this way, if he was already executed and his wife found later on, what does it looks like on justice system? It would be a real screwed up.


jonnyghost said:
Wait a minute. You say they should "deal with foul smelling %$^#" because it will punish him more and to me that sounds like you want to torture him. And that the death penalty would be just an escape but then you say that monster support the death penalty?

If you're against the death penalty I understand. We'll just disagree. But I'm a bit confused as to why you think tourture is morally superior to the death penalty.
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diehardbiker said:
Supposed, you had a kid of your own, and that kid was killed by monster. Will you be free of suffering the loss of your own kid for the rest of your life? Letting the killer go sleep peaceful is justifiable to you?
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No, nothing would make me free of suffering. But I would want the person responsible to be executed. But I think there is a difference between justice and vengeance. We don't necessarily do what ever the victims want.


diehardbiker said:
Secondly, killing whether it is execution or not is still MURDER period and two murders don't make it right.
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We will disagree on that.
 
diehardbiker said:
Supposed, you had a kid of your own, and that kid was killed by monster. Will you be free of suffering the loss of your own kid for the rest of your life? Letting the killer go sleep peaceful is justifiable to you?

Secondly, killing whether it is execution or not is still MURDER period and two murders don't make it right.

Here is another good reason why death penalty is not right way to carry the justice.

Missing Pennsylvania woman reappears 11 years later in Florida Keys - CNN.com

That poor husband was suspect at first, he could have been executed while people thought he killed his wife only to find out that his wife was still alive after 11 years. Just think this way, if he was already executed and his wife found later on, what does it looks like on justice system? It would be a real screwed up.
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I agree that there are far to many innocent people convicted of crimes in our justice system.
 
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