Texas Death Row Inmate Danny Bible Loses at US Supreme Court

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Texas Death Row Inmate Danny Bible Loses at US Supreme Court

By MICHAEL GRACZYK, ASSOCIATED PRESS HOUSTON — Oct 11, 2016, 3:10 PM ET

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday refused an appeal from Texas death row inmate Danny Paul Bible, who was convicted of the 1979 icepick slaying of a woman who went to his house in Houston to use a telephone and was found later stabbed 11 times, raped and dumped on the bank of a bayou.

The high court offered no comment on its rejection.

Bible, 65, does not yet have an execution date.

Court records show Bible has confessed to four killings, including 20-year-old Inez Deaton, whose slaying went unsolved for nearly two decades. He wasn't tied to her death until 1998 when he was arrested in Fort Myers, Florida, for a Louisiana rape and told authorities about killing Deaton in Houston and a woman and her baby west of Fort Worth in North Texas.

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[Lunabell]

1. C'est la vie

Not anti death penalty. Imho he deserves an icepick death after being raped.

[Sam1]

5. And upon who would you inflict trauma caring out that sentence?

[Lunabell]

7. That isn't hard.

You will not change my mind with any arguments as far as heinous crimes go. There are certain "people" who do not deserve to breath the same air. My opinion, but if the states abolished the death penalty, I would not oppose that either. It just isn't on my agenda.

[Skittles]

8. you didn't advocate for the death penalty as carried out by law

you advised he be raped and stabbed

[Lunabell]

9. Yeah

Got carried away. He will just get a nice pain free death with a sweet little cocktail of drugs. Unlike his victims.

[Sam1]

10. My post was not an argument against the death penalty!

Just because someone "deserves it" doesn't mean we should lower ourselves to administer it and besides as a method of execution it would violate the 8th Amendment.

[Lunabell]

11. What?

Ice picking after being raped? I suppose we could call that cruel and unusual. Maybe goes a bit too far. He deserves to be put out of his and our misery. I'm not quite sure there is any humanity in a body like that. We put down dogs who are better than he is.

[Ohioblue22]

2. Wtf for what do we need this murderous monster around

[Yo_Mama]

3. Not the best case he had. Except for all-out opposition to the DP,

which many on DU do display out of moral conviction, there was little in the way of legal argument here.

He was out on parole for his first killing when he committed this murder.

What is with this guy?

Court records show Bible has confessed to four killings, including 20-year-old Inez Deaton, whose slaying went unsolved for nearly two decades. He wasn't tied to her death until 1998 when he was arrested in Fort Myers, Florida, for a Louisiana rape and told authorities about killing Deaton in Houston and a woman and her baby west of Fort Worth in North Texas.

Bible previously served prison time after pleading guilty in 1984 in Palo Pinto County to killing another woman. Texas Department of Criminal Justice records show he arrived in prison with a 25-year sentence for that slaying plus 20 years for a robbery conviction in Harris County but was released in February 1992 to Montana.

[Major Nikon]

4. It doesn't take a moral conviction to be against the DP

Just the realization that it serves no benefit to anyone and has a high cost to society.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

6. He Didn't Lose; He Never Got To The Supreme Court

The Court denied certiorari, meaning they just refused to hear it. So he didn't lose on the merits of his case. The Court refused to hear it at all. Unfortunately, for him, it means the exact same thing, though.