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    Wayne Robert Felde - Louisiana Execution - March 15, 1988


    Officer Glen Thompkins


    Summary of Offense: Convicted of shooting a policeman in the back in Shreveport in 1978 while handcuffed and on his way to jail for drunkenness.

    Victim: Officer Glen Thompkins

    Time of Death: 12:14 a.m.

    Manner of execution: Electric Chair

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    March 15, 1988

    A Vietnam Veteran Who Said He'd Kill Again Is Executed


    ANGOLA, La., Tuesday, March 15 (AP) — Wayne Robert Felde, who had pleaded with a jury to sentence him to death to keep him from killing again, was executed in the electric chair early today for the 1978 slaying of a rookie policeman.

    Mr. Felde, who was 38 years old, died at 12:14 A.M. after the Supreme Court refused by a 7-to-2 vote on Monday to stay the execution.

    Mr. Felde was convicted of shooting a policeman in the back in Shreveport while handcuffed and on his way to jail for drunkenness. A Vietnam veteran, Mr. Felde contended at his trial that his wartime experience had made him insane. He was the first person in Louisiana to use his Vietnam service as the basis for a criminal insanity plea.

    The execution occurred less than a day after the inauguration of a new Governor, Charles E. (Buddy) Roemer. Mr. Felde's lawyers had planned to ask the Governor to stop the execution until a new pardon board could consider the case.

    Governor Roemer had said earlier he would not intervene.

    Upon his conviction for first-degree murder in 1980, Mr. Felde pleaded with the jury for his own execution. ''It's happened twice in eight years,'' he told the jury, referring to an earlier manslaughter conviction in Maryland.

    But he withdrew the request after the trial, and his appeal to the Supreme Court was based in part on his contention that he was denied competent representation because his lawyer joined him in his appeal for execution.

    http://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/15/us...xecuted&st=nyt

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