Texas Execution Set for Tonight

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Richard Longoria


Story Created: Sep 22, 2009 at 9:21 AM CDT
Story Updated: Sep 22, 2009 at 9:26 AM CDT

By MICHAEL GRACZYK
Associated Press Writer

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - A convicted hit man is set for
execution for a triple slaying related to drug deals in Houston
almost 14 years ago.

Christopher Coleman faces lethal injection Tuesday evening in
the state death chamber in Huntsville.

He was condemned for being the gunman in a scheme contrived by a
Colombian man who hoped to eliminate an $80,000 cocaine debt by
staging a robbery. Four people wound up getting shot on a dead-end
street in Houston. Three died, including a 3-year-old boy.

Attorneys for the 37-year-old Coleman hope the U.S. Supreme
Court will stop the execution. His lethal injection would be the
18th this year in Texas and the first of two set for this week.

 

[DCortez]

I hope there's a Hell.

 

[cuate]

Lay comfortably on a gurney, clean white sheet, get an IV, go to sleep for eternity.
That is not the maximum punishment by his peers for a horrible crime !!!!
Old Sparky, thousand of volts or better public hanging on the gallows where all his pardnuhs can watch and get an idea of the wages of lawbreaking !!!!

 

[Roscoe]

Sounds like this boy is going to have a bad night; still - its going to be a lot better than what he wakes up to tomorrow morning. Hope he likes hot weather!!!!

 

[Bob Loblaw]

Lay comfortably on a gurney, clean white sheet, get an IV, go to sleep for eternity.
That is not the maximum punishment by his peers for a horrible crime !!!!
Old Sparky, thousand of volts or better public hanging on the gallows where all his pardnuhs can watch and get an idea of the wages of lawbreaking !!!!

Lethal injection is not painless. Also, shouldn't the punishment resemble the crime as little as possible? Otherwise why not match the crime identically? I'm for the death penalty, I just don't understand using it as a form of torture. If we want him to suffer, leave him in a hole, or let's throw rocks at him. But if we want him dead, hypoxia by nitrogen.

 

[Libertarian_Longhorn]

Lethal injection is not painless. Also, shouldn't the punishment resemble the crime as little as possible? Otherwise why not match the crime identically? I'm for the death penalty, I just don't understand using it as a form of torture. If we want him to suffer, leave him in a hole, or let's throw rocks at him. But if we want him dead, hypoxia by nitrogen.

True. The needle does have a stinging sensation.

 

[Stumpy]

I think they oughta still do hangings or firing squads. And they need to be public.

 

[Texas42]

hangings can be very humane, actually. I just prefer the method that sends them to Judgment Day faster. I don't really feel the need to do anything more than arrange the meeting. I think God can handle them.

This whole 14 year crap is what gets me.

 

[Jason]

I voted for Pay Per View on the executions, but no one has listened yet!!!

Recoup some of the $$$$ spent on giving them free room and board while immoral lawyers try to make cases to get their $$$$$...

 

[MadMo44Mag]

Old Sparky, thousand of volts or better public hanging on the gallows where all his pardnuhs can watch and get an idea of the wages of lawbreaking !!!!

+101!!!!

 

[2Shots1Wound]

Time to settle your debt.....

 

[Hoji]

I am okay with the death penalty, I am NOT okay with the government carrying it out. .gov gets too many things wrong to be trusted with life and death.

Look at the huge number of people who have been freed recently due to DNA.

Life without parole is better because if it turns out that they actually were innocent, life w/o parole you can take steps to rectify, once .gov kills you , that is it.


Flame away.