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Only problem is that they went to such extraordinary trouble to make sure it was a painless and non-scary death. Why do we owe these slime that? No need to cause them extreme suffering, but no need to treat them with kid gloves either. Easier to line them up against a wall in front of a firing squad. Sorry if that upsets them.
Donnie Lee Roberts executed in Texas for killing girlfriend Vicki Bowen in 2003
AP/ November 1, 2012, 7:57 AM
HUNTSVILLE, Texas Donnie Lee Roberts, convicted in his girlfriend's 2003 slaying in Texas, was executed Wednesday for fatally shooting the woman and taking items from her home to sell or trade to support his drug habit.
Roberts, 41, became the 12th inmate to be put to death this year in the nation's most active capital punishment state. He was given a lethal injection for the killing of Vicki Bowen at her East Texas home.
Roberts' punishment came after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review his case earlier this week, and no additional appeals were filed to try to block the lethal injection.
At the time of his arrest for the October 2003 slaying of the 44-year-old Bowen, Roberts had violated his probation for a robbery conviction in Louisiana by fleeing to Texas after dropping out of a drug treatment program.
Authorities said he apparently met Bowen, a dental assistant, at a bar and moved in with her at her Lake Livingston home, about 75 miles northeast of Houston. Their relationship soured because Roberts wasn't working and was abusing drugs and alcohol, investigators said, and he shot Bowen after she refused his demand for money.
Roberts was arrested at a suspected crack house in the town of Livingston when a truck missing from Bowen's home was spotted there the same day Bowen's body was discovered.
Roberts told authorities he made several trips from the house where Bowen was shot, collecting property that he took into town to sell and trade for crack.
He also surprised detectives by confessing to the shotgun death of a man that happened a decade earlier in Natchitoches Parish, La. Louisiana authorities initially believed the victim, Al Crow, had died of asphyxiation in a fire at the camper trailer where he was living but reopened the case following Roberts' disclosure, found shotgun pellets and determined it was a homicide.
Bowen didn't show up for work on Oct. 16, 2003, and a co-worker who went to check on her found her body wrapped in a blanket and lying in a pool of blood. A medical examiner determined Bowen was killed with two gunshots to her head.
Evidence at trial showed Roberts had a record for battery while being held in jail in Fulton County, Ga., that he'd threatened his wife to give him money for drugs, and that he warned there would be another killing if he didn't get a single-person cell in Polk County when he was jailed for Bowen's murder.
His robbery conviction in Louisiana was for a Mother's Day 2001 convenience store holdup in Baton Rouge, La., where the knife-wielding Roberts threatened to slice the throat of the female clerk.
Three more Texas prisoners are set to die in November, including one next week.
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That's right. Government owns you and your body. They can tell you what to put into it. They can tell you if you get to live or die. Bow down. They own you.
The government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it away.
Government does not grant you your rights. You get them automatically at birth as an individual.
The right to life is the most important right of all. The other rights are meaningless without it.
It's always entertaining to watch the hand-wringing do-gooders insist that, if we can't have absolute 100% perfection, then it's better to let the murderers run wild, and merely offer to support them for the rest of their lives if we catch them.
Putting them in jail doesn't seem like running wild imo.
Yea so what if a mistake is made and they are killed. They are only human beings.
Government does not grant you your rights. You get them automatically at birth as an individual.
The right to life is the most important right of all. The other rights are meaningless without it.
And if you violate that right, you should be punished appropriately, in a suitably severe way.
The moral of this story......if you are going to kill someone don't do it in Texas.
About 4 years ago, there was a guy who killed a woman in IL specifically because he knew he wouldn't get the death penalty and would only get life. Free health care, free dental, free food, tv, newspapers...not a bad deal for a convicted, admitted murderer.
Aint IL great!
I'm at odds with the death penalty. I actually support it, but I don't like the government having that kind of power in case it ever becomes corrupt.
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