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    Didn't they do McVeigh in the morning??
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    Yes 7.00am.
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    US execution planned of killer who said witchcraft drove him

    CHICAGO (AP) — A former U.S. soldier who said an obsession with witchcraft led him to slay a Georgia nurse in a bid to lift a spell he believed she put on him is the first of two more inmates the federal government is preparing to put to death this week.

    William Emmett LeCroy, 50, on Tuesday would be the sixth federal inmate executed by lethal injection this year at the U.S. prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. Another is scheduled for Thursday of Christopher Vialva, who would be the first African-American on federal death row to be executed this year. LeCroy is white, as were four of the five inmates executed earlier. The fifth was a Navajo.

    Critics say President Donald Trump’s resumption of federal executions this year after a 17-year hiatus is a cynical bid to help him claim the mantel of law-and-order candidate leading up to Election Day. Supporters say Trump is bringing long-overdue justice to victims and their families.

    Lawyers asked Trump in a recent petition to commute LeCroy’s sentence to life in prison, citing, among other things, that LeCroy’s brother, Georgia State Trooper Chad LeCroy, was killed during a routine traffic stop in 2010, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

    “The pain and sorrow felt by the LeCroy family at potentially losing two of their sons is unimaginable,” the petition said.

    LeCroy broke into the Cherrylog, Georgia, mountain home of 30-year-old Joann Lee Tiesler on Oct. 7, 2001, and waited for her to return from a shopping trip. When she walked through the door, LeCroy struck her with a shotgun, bound and raped her. He then slashed her throat and repeatedly stabbed her in the back.

    LeCroy had known Tiesler because she lived near a relative’s home and would often wave to her as he drove by. He later told investigators he’d come to believe she might have been his old babysitter he called Tinkerbell, who LeCroy claimed sexually molested him as a child. After killing Tiesler, he realized that couldn’t possibly be true.

    Two days after killing Tiesler, LeCroy was arrested driving Tiesler’s truck after passing a U.S. checkpoint in Minnesota heading to Canada.

    Authorities found a note LeCroy wrote before his arrest in which he asked Tiesler for forgiveness, according to court filings. “You were an angel and I killed you,” it read. “I am a vagabond and doomed to hell.”

    LeCroy, who joined the Army at 17 but was soon after discharged for going AWOL, later spoke about an interest in witchcraft that began during a previous stint in prison for burglary, child molestation and other charges.

    LeCroy said he ruminated for days before the slaying about how Tiesler was Tinkerbell and that assaulting her would reverse a hex she put on him. After he cut her throat, he went to Tiesler’s computer to search for books about witchcraft, filings say.

    Jurors in 2004 convicted LeCroy on a federal charge of carjacking resulting in death and then recommended a death sentence.

    LeCroy’s lawyers have sought to halt the execution on appeal on multiple grounds, including that his trial lawyers didn’t properly emphasize evidence about his upbringing and mental health that could have persuaded jurors not to impose a death sentence.

    None of those appeals have succeeded, though lawyers could continue to ask for court intervention up to the hour of his scheduled execution. Last-minute legal appeals by the previous five death-row inmates all failed.

    The petition to Trump notes that the man who killed LeCroy’s brother, Gregory Favors, pleaded guilty in state court and received a sentence of life in prison, arguing that the two cases show how capital cases can often be arbitrary.

    “The wildly disparate impact of local federal prosecutors’ use of their discretion to apply the death penalty is a compelling reason for an act of mercy toward the LeCroy family that has already suffered such a great loss,” the petition said.

    The vast majority of executions in recent decades have been carried out by states. Over previous 56 years, before the Trump administration’s reboot of executions in 2020, the federal government had executed just three people — all in the early 2000s. Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was among them.

    https://apnews.com/ad069e143126b4abb8ac65a1482cb13a

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    SCOTUS denied a stay of execution.

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    I've been reading his appeals and during trial his attorneys in describing what happened said that the rape and murder were an "irrational criminal act in the middle of a burglary".
    "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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    William LeCroy has been executed. Death was pronounced at 9:06 PM EDT
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    US government executes killer obsessed with witchcraft

    By MICHAEL TARM
    The Associated Press

    The U.S. government on Tuesday executed a former soldier who said an obsession with witchcraft led him to kill a Georgia nurse he believed had put a spell on him.

    William Emmett LeCroy, 50, was pronounced dead at 9:06 p.m. EDT after receiving a lethal injection at the same U.S. prison in Terre Haute, Indiana where five others have been executed in 2020 following a 17-year period without a federal execution.

    Lawyers had asked Trump in a petition to commute LeCroy’s sentence to life in prison, saying that LeCroy’s brother, Georgia State Trooper Chad LeCroy, was killed during a routine traffic stop in 2010 and that another son’s death would devastate the LeCroy family.

    Another execution, of Christopher Vialva, is scheduled Thursday. He would be the first African-American on federal death row to be put to death in the series of federal executions this year.

    Critics say President Donald Trump’s resumption of federal executions this year is a cynical bid to help him claim the mantel of law-and-order candidate leading up to Election Day. Supporters say Trump is bringing long-overdue justice to victims and their families.

    LeCroy broke into the Cherrylog, Georgia, mountain home of 30-year-old Joann Lee Tiesler on Oct. 7, 2001, and waited for her to return from a shopping trip. When she walked through the door, LeCroy struck her with a shotgun, bound and raped her. He then slashed her throat and repeatedly stabbed her in the back.

    LeCroy had known Tiesler because she lived near a relative’s home and would often wave to her as he drove by. He later told investigators he’d come to believe she might have been his old babysitter he called Tinkerbell, who LeCroy claimed sexually molested him as a child. After killing Tiesler, he realized that couldn’t possibly be true.

    Two days after killing Tiesler, LeCroy was arrested driving Tiesler’s truck after passing a U.S. checkpoint in Minnesota heading to Canada.

    Authorities found a note LeCroy wrote before his arrest in which he asked Tiesler for forgiveness, according to court filings. “You were an angel and I killed you,” it read. “I am a vagabond and doomed to hell.”

    “Today justice was finally served. William LeCroy died a peaceful death in stark contrast to the horror he imposed on my daughter Joann,” the victim’s father, Tom Tiesler, said in a statement.

    “I am unaware that he ever showed any remorse for his evil actions, his life of crime or for the horrific burden he caused Joann’s loved ones,” the statement read.

    As she waited near the prison to enter and witness the planned execution, LeCroy’s spiritual adviser, Sister Barbara Battista, held a bag of caramel chocolate that she said was LeCroy’s favorite. She was scheduled to speak to him before the execution and then stand nearby when the lethal injections began. She last spoke to LeCroy seven days ago and quoted him as saying he had been contemplating his likely death, adding he sounded resigned to it.

    “He said, ‘You know, once we were not and then we are and then we are not,’” she said. “He was reflective. He didn’t seem agitated.” She said he wasn’t sure he would have last words, telling her he didn’t like “how the process is all theater.” ’

    LeCroy, who joined the Army at 17 but was soon was discharged for going AWOL, later spoke about an interest in witchcraft that began during a previous stint in prison for burglary, child molestation and other charges.

    LeCroy said he ruminated for days before the slaying about how Tiesler was Tinkerbell and that assaulting her would reverse a hex she put on him. After he cut her throat, he went to Tiesler’s computer to search for books about witchcraft, filings say.

    Jurors in 2004 convicted LeCroy on a federal charge of carjacking resulting in death and recommended a death sentence.

    LeCroy’s lawyers sought to halt the execution on appeal on multiple grounds, including that his trial lawyers didn’t properly emphasize evidence about his upbringing and mental health that could have persuaded jurors not to impose a death sentence.

    The petition to Trump noted that the man who killed LeCroy’s brother, Gregory Favors, pleaded guilty in state court and received a sentence of life in prison, arguing that the two cases show how outcome of capital cases can be arbitrary.

    The vast majority of executions in recent decades have been carried out by states. Over previous 56 years, before the Trump administration’s reboot of executions this year, the federal government had executed just three people — all in the early 2000s. Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was among them.

    https://apnews.com/ad069e143126b4abb8ac65a1482cb13a
    "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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    He can play all the witchcraft games he wants now. Good riddance!

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    WAITING TO DIE: WILLIAM LECROY

    TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI)- On September 22nd, William Emmett LeCroy Jr, said his final words and took his final breath. At 9:06 p.m. ET, he was officially pronounced dead by the Vigo County Coroner.

    According to court documents, LeCroy robbed, sexually assaulted, and stabbed 30-year-old Joann Lee Tiesler to death.

    After painful years of waiting and suffering, Tiesler's family says in a statement, justice has finally been served.

    I arrived at the media training center right at 4 o'clock. I was one of the first out of four journalists to arrive.

    As I entered the building my temperature was taken and I was asked a series of questions relating to COVID-19 symptoms.

    After receiving my I.D. badge, I walked towards a table with a piece of paper that labeled my name. On the table rested a form, hand sanitizer, disinfectant wipes, and a plastic bag and marker.

    After filling out the form and returning it to officials, we were escorted into a white van.

    From there, we went through a security screening, much like an airport process. My jewelry was removed, I was asked to remove my mask to check the inside, and I walked through a cylinder machine that x-rayed my body.

    After all of the screening, we got back on the bus only to return to the media training center. I knew at this point, that something must have been off with the scheduled execution as time was ticking and we were not moving towards the execution chambers.

    A legal back-and-forth battle caused a delay, leaving us to sit inside the center for an additional two hours. I watched 6 o'clock pass by, the time originally scheduled.

    I was becoming more anxious as I waited. Officials walked passed me, but none of them mentioned why we were still waiting. We were offered water and bathroom breaks in the meantime.

    Finally, after two and a half hours, at 7:40 p.m., we re-entered the white vans. We headed towards the execution chamber and immediately stopped. Again, we sat, not knowing the reason why.

    Around 8:35 p.m., we made our way towards the chambers. When we arrived guards opened the van doors and we walked through yet another security measure.

    When entering the death chamber, the first thing I noticed was the smell. It lingered disinfectant and hospital smells. I also noticed how small the room was. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but the room was very small. I could count at least 9 chairs within the room, it felt very cramped.

    The entire process was long except for the physical execution. It started before I even realized it. Another journalist tapped my shoulder to show me that the curtain had been raised.

    On the gurney, laid LeCroy. His body type was much heavier than what I was expecting. The first thing I noticed was the mint green sheet covering his feet and his stomach that stuck out from under it.

    He looked much different than his mugshot taken twenty years ago. His facial hair was long and portions were brown and gray.

    His right arm was bent with an IV inserted at the arm crease and his fingers were in the shape of an 'OK' symbol. His other hand also had an IV going into it. Four different clear IV lines came from a small square in the wall behind him.

    An official came over the speaker and announced LeCroy's crimes. He was asked if he had a final statement to which he responded confidently, "Sister Battista is about to receive in the postal service my last statement."

    According to another journalist who spoke with Battista, LeCroy did not want to read the statement because he did not like journalists. Allegedly he said he didn't want to make a theatrical out of it.

    From there, the lethal injection process began but it was not announced. My watch read at 8:48 p.m. At first, LeCroy seemed calm and unphased. However, that quickly changed as his body received a lethal cocktail.

    His stomach started going up and down intensely. His mouth quivered as he was gasping for air. His eyes slowly closed, his mouth dropped and opened, and his body stayed still. I could see his chest moving but with each breath, it became less noticeable. His lips began to change from pink to almost a nude color. I could tell he was losing grasp of his life by the color of his lips and fingertips. His fingers became a tint of blue, I could tell the blood was no longer reaching them as the veins enlarged.

    I checked my watch again, five minutes had passed but it felt like an eternity. I continued to keep my eyes glued to LeCroy, watching his every movement. His eyes remained partially open and his hands continued to change colors. I checked my watch again. It read at 9:05 p.m.

    A minute later, it came over the speaker "That concludes the execution of Inmate LeCroy, time of death, 9:06 p.m." As the curtain came back down, I couldn't process what just happened. My hands and legs were shaking as I tried to collect myself.

    We were then escorted out of the room back into the van. Once we arrived at the media center we were issued a written statement by the victim's family. A portion of it read, "Today justice was finally served. William LeCroy died a peaceful death in stark comparison to the horror he imposed on my daughter Joann."

    I was told by another journalist, that Sister Battista anticipates receiving LeCroy's final statement by Wednesday. If she shares it, we will be sure to provide that information.

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