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Thread: Joshua Daniel Bishop - Georgia Execution - March 31, 2016

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    Georgia Executes Man for 1994 Beating Death

    Georgia has executed a man convicted in the beating death of another man while trying to steal his car keys after a night of drinking and drug use.

    Authorities say 41-year-old Joshua Bishop was pronounced dead at 9:27 p.m. Thursday at the state prison in Jackson following an injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital. Bishop was convicted of the 1994 killing of Leverett Morrison in Milledgeville, central Georgia.

    Bishop, Morrison and another man, Mark Braxley, had been drinking and smoking crack on June 24, 1994, according to prosecutors. They say Bishop tried to steal car keys from Morrison, who was sleeping, and he and Braxley beat Morrison to death when he awoke.

    http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/l...death-38052970
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Condemned man's last words: 'Our Father . . .'

    Joshua Bishop nodded an acknowledgment to the men who sent him to prison, mouthed "I love you" to his attorney and then uttered his last words Thursday night.

    "Our Father . . ." and his voice trailed off as he slipped into unconsciousness, unable to continue the Lord's Prayer aloud as the poison entered his bloodstream.

    At the age of 19, Bishop beat a man to death with a curtain rod. Twenty-two years later, at 41, he was put to death at the Georgia prison in Jackson.

    As he lay on the gurney, Bishop apologized "to the people of Baldwin County," where his crimes took place, and to the family of the man he killed.
    "I am the warden! Get your warden off this gurney and shut up! You are not in America. This is the island of Barbados. People will see you doing this." Monty Delk's last words.

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