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    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
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    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    The state of Missouri has executed David Zink for the for the 2001 murder of 19-year-old Amanda Morton.
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    Demor I hope you have now found the peace and justice you and Amanda deserve. I pray Amanda can now rest in peace.

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    Inmate lauds death penalty before being executed

    A Missouri man who sexually attacked a 19-year-old woman before tying her to a cemetery tree and killing her was executed Tuesday after the U.S. Supreme Court and the governor declined to intervene.

    David Zink, 55, was put to death at a state prison near Bonne Terre, south of St. Louis, hours after the nation's high court rebuffed his last appeals and Gov. Jay Nixon rejected his clemency request. Corrections Department spokesman Mike O'Connell said the lethal injection began at 7:33 p.m. and Zink was pronounced dead at 7:41 p.m.

    Zink began breathing haltingly shortly after the injection began. His right hand twitched several times before he eventually became motionless.

    In a final written statement, Zink said he hoped his execution would bring peace to the family of the woman he killed, Amanda Morton. "I offer my sincerest apology to Amanda Morton's family and friends for my actions."

    He added a message to other inmates on death row.

    "For those who remain on death row, understand that everyone is going to die. Statistically speaking, we have a much easier death than most. So I encourage you to embrace it and celebrate our true liberation before society figures it out and condemns us to life without parole and we too will die a lingering death."

    Authorities said Zink abducted Morton in 2001 after hitting her car from behind on a highway exit ramp a mile from her Strafford home. Morton was driving home after visiting a friend.

    Just months before the slaying, Zink had been released from a Texas prison after serving 20 years on rape, abduction and escape charges. Fearing that his drunken fender-bender with Morton could violate his parole and send him back to prison, Zink abducted Morton, taking her to a motel.

    "If I think that you're going to pose a threat to my freedom, it is set in my mind I want to eliminate you," Zink said in his videotaped confession.

    The motel's manager later saw a televised news report about Morton's disappearance, recognized her as the woman who had checked in with Zink, and gave investigators Zink's name and license plate number from motel registration.

    Zink, after being arrested at his parents' home, led authorities to Morton's buried body in a cemetery, confessing matter-of-factly and at times laughing on videotape that he had tied her to a tree there and told her to look up. When the bewildered Morton begrudgingly glanced skyward, Zink said, he snapped her neck, choked her with his hands and a rope, and stuffed her mouth with mud and leaves.

    Worried that Morton might regain consciousness, Zink admitted, he used a knife to sever her spinal cord at the neck.

    An autopsy showed Morton had eight broken ribs and 50 to 100 blunt-force injuries. She also had been sexually assaulted.

    Zink had appealed to stop his execution. A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday declined, without comment, his claims that the death penalty was unconstitutional. On Monday, the St. Louis-based court had rejected his challenge of the drug process used during lethal injections.

    His appellate attorneys did not accept requests by The Associated Press for interviews this week.

    Messages left Monday with Morton's mother and sister were not returned.

    Zink became the fifth man executed this year in Missouri and the 17th since November 2013. Only Texas has executed more inmates over that span.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/inmate-d...eing-executed/
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    what he said about getting the needle is a much easier death than most is very true....I was just looking at all the inmates who have died in jail just in Florida in 2015 so far, and it was 2 pages worth.......

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    Mr. Zink's last words were powerful indeed.

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    Thanks for all the support. We can finally have some peace.

    Attending the execution was a surreal experience. Our family is a lot smaller now than it was when Amanda died.All four of her grandparents are gone. Only her dad, sister, myself, three cousins, an aunt and two uncles attended. We had to be at the prison at 4:15 to get checked in for the scheduled 6 o'clock execution time. Of course it was delayed over an hour. We waited in a small room with coffee, water and a few cookies. They did have games (the younger generation played cards) and lots of magazines. When the order finally came down we were escorted into a dark room with two rows of chairs. The death chamber was in front of us. We were not allowed to speak or make noise of any kind. The curtains were opened and he was lying on the table, covered with a sheet up to the neck. He didn't speak at all and only turned his head toward where his family would have been (no one came from his family). He was very heavily sedated. Shortly after the curtains were opened his eyes closed and he didn't move again. He was pronounced dead at seven minutes after the curtains opened.

    Anyone who thinks lethal iniection is a cruel punishment needs to witness an execution. All of Amanda's grandparents had much harder deaths then he did.

    The best part of the experience was being able to talk to the original detectives who worked the case when she went missing. They were happy to have the whole ordeal over for all of us. They spoke to the press afterwards. I had planned to make a statement but changed my mind.

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    Demor Amanda must have been with you as justice was served. Rest assured that she knew just how much she was loved and missed. I hope you have now found peace to remember and honor you daughter despite the frustration and disappointment you endured waiting for justice to be served you are still in my prayers.

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    Appeals Court Throws Out Challenge To Missouri’s Execution Protocol

    A legal challenge to Missouri’s execution protocol brought by four taxpayers has been rejected by the Missouri Court of Appeals.

    In a decision today, the appeals court upheld a lower court’s dismissal of the taxpayers’ claims just days after they filed their lawsuit.

    The lawsuit sought to halt the scheduled execution by lethal injection of convicted murderer David Zink. The execution went ahead as scheduled, on July 14, 2015.

    Zink had been found guilty of first-degree murder, kidnaping and rape in the 2001 death of 19-year-old Amanda Morton.

    The lawsuit was brought by Joan Bray, a former Missouri lawmaker; Jeanette Oxford, also a former Missouri lawmaker and now executive director of Empower Missouri, a social justice advocacy organization; Elston McCowan, a Baptist minister; and Mary Ann McGivern, a member of the Sisters of Loretto.

    The four argued that Missouri’s lethal-injection execution method violates federal regulations barring the compounding of pentobarbital, the injection drug used in Missouri executions.

    The circuit court dismissed the case on three independent legal grounds. It found that the taxpayers lacked standing to sue, that the Missouri Supreme Court had exclusive jurisdiction over the case and that the taxpayers failed to state a claim upon which relief could be granted.

    The appeals court upheld the third finding without addressing the other two.

    Oxford said she was disappointed by the decision.

    “We still continue to think that we raised important issues that deserve attention,” she said. “When your state isn’t following normal FDA protocols around how they obtain drugs to use in something as irreversible and serious as the execution of a prisoner, it’s a very serious matter.”

    The other plaintiffs could not be reached for comment.

    The case is one of several that have challenged Missouri’s execution protocol, including another one filed by Bray.

    In March, a Cole County judge ruled that the Missouri Department of Corrections deliberately violated the state’s Sunshine Law when it refused to turn over records identifying the suppliers of lethal injection drugs. The state has appealed the decision.

    http://kcur.org/post/appeals-court-t...tocol#stream/0
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