Death penalty opponents are all over the botched execution in Oklahoma. I say the only problem is that the bastard didn't suffer more than he did. Death by bonfire was called for. You hear about the messy execution but you don't hear about the crime. Check this out....
You never hear about the victims. All you hear about is the guys who are wanting one more day of life after committing a horrendous crime.
You can't ignore the victims if you want to have an honest discussion about this issue. The guy deserved to die. Nuff said.
Almost 15 years ago, on June 3, 1999, Clayton Lockett, 23, Shawn Mathis, 26, and Alfonzo LaRon Veasey Lockett, 17, planned on robbing Bobby Lee Bornt, 23, at his house in Perry, Okla.Read the whole thing here.
They tied up Bornt and beat him. Bornt’s nine-month-old son was present.
Stephanie Neiman, 18, was dropping off her friend Summer Bradshaw at that house, and Lockett and his accomplices tried to take the keys to her new Chevy truck. Neiman, who graduated from high school only two weeks earlier, fought back, and the men covered her mouth with duct tape and beat and sexually assualted her. They also covered her 18-year-old friend’s mouth with duct tape, and beat and sexually assaulted her. Both were abducted, along with Bornt and his son. Lockett and his accomplices drove the four people they kidnapped west of Ponca City. Lockett asked Neiman if she planned to call the police. She would not say no, and Mathis spent 20 minutes digging a grave over which Lockett shot Neiman twice with a sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun, the three other victims later told authorities.
You never hear about the victims. All you hear about is the guys who are wanting one more day of life after committing a horrendous crime.
You can't ignore the victims if you want to have an honest discussion about this issue. The guy deserved to die. Nuff said.
