TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — The United States on Thursday carried out its second federal execution this week, killing by lethal injection a Kansas man whose lawyers contended he had dementia and was unfit to be executed.
Wesley Ira Purkey was put to death at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. Purkey was convicted of kidnapping and killing a 16-year-old girl, Jennifer Long, before dismembering, burning and dumping her body in a septic pond. He also was convicted in a state court in Kansas after using a claw hammer to kill an 80-year-old woman who had polio.
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Jennifer was also unfit to be executed. To hell with the scum who cheer for murderer's lives while aborting babies.
ReplyDeleteGood. I see where John Lewis finally croaked yesterday. So there is some good news after all
ReplyDeleteJohn Lewis, toes up. Who's next in the Democrat death poll? Oh, Plugs gets unplugged or Ghislaine goes full Arkancide?
DeleteI'm pulling for Roof. It may be too late already for Trump and McConnel to get a replacement in but it's worth a shot.
DeleteDementia?
ReplyDeleteHe can run for president or maybe even be Joe's running mate.
I fail to see why having dementia makes a person unfit for execution. Just get rid of the bastard.
ReplyDeleteExactly, tell him its a Disney ride.
DeleteHe showed no mercy, or even common decency to those two women. Therefore, we show no mercy.
ReplyDeleteI don't give a shit what his mental state is now; what I care about is is mental state when he committed those crimes. And as far as I'm concerned, he's been stealing food and oxygen for the last twenty years.
Fuck him! And his family!
ReplyDeleteNo, Mr. Attorney, he was unfit to continue living. The only real question: why the hell did it take so long?
ReplyDeleteSome more of the story: the girl was 16 years old and was kidnapped in Kansas City, Missouri and taken to Purkey's home in Lansing, Kansas, (about 40 miles away) where he raped and murdered her. Kidnapping across state lines made it a federal crime. Lansing is home of the Kansas State Penitentiary. In 1965 the two murderers chronicled in Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" were hanged at Lansing. They were ex-cons (from Lansing) who brutally murdered a farmer and his family in western Kansas in the late '50s.
ReplyDeletePurkey's other murder conviction was by the state of Kansas because the crime was committed solely in Kansas.
Hmmmm.....can they kill him a couple more times?.....
ReplyDeleteTwo white guys so far. Blacks are not going to get executed, for obvious reasons. Just watch, once they reduce the number of whites on death row, by killing them, The Usual Suspects will bitch about “disproportionate percentage of African-Americans on death row.”
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