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In reply to the discussion: Amherst County murderer executed by electric chair [View all]geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)11. This guy needed to be killed. Had to die.
Gleason was serving life in prison for the 2007 fatal shooting of a man when he became frustrated with prison officials because they wouldn't move out his new, mentally disturbed cellmate. Gleason hogtied, beat and strangled 63-year-old Harvey Watson Jr. in May 2009 and remained with the inmate's body for more than 15 hours before the crime was discovered.
"Someone needs to stop it," he told The Associated Press after Watson's death. "The only way to stop me is put me on death row."
While awaiting sentencing at a highly secure prison for the state's most dangerous inmates, Gleason strangled 26-year-old Aaron Cooper through wire fencing that separated their individual cages in a recreation yard in July 2010. As officers tried to resuscitate Cooper - video surveillance shows had been choked on and off for nearly an hour - Gleason told them "you're going to have to pump a lot harder than that."
Putting this guy behind bars couldn't stop him from killing.
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You're defining any killing as a murder, ergo stripping the word of any meaning.
geek tragedy
Jan 2013
#42
Ok. So, you are implicitly answering those questions you've previously refused to?
harmonicon
Jan 2013
#46
To put it another way--was his execution a prosecutable crime according to the
geek tragedy
Jan 2013
#47
If it is state sanctioned, then it is still illegal, even if it is not considered "murder."
Socal31
Jan 2013
#71
I don't think solitary confinement for the rest of his life would have added much more significant..
Tom Ripley
Jan 2013
#29
So you're okay with the U.S. being the only country in the western hemisphere that has the DP?
BuddhaGirl
Jan 2013
#49