Child-Killer Scheduled To Be Executed

[The Straight Story]

Child-Killer Scheduled To Be Executed
Man Raped Woman Before Shooting Her Girls


STARKE, Fla. -- A man convicted of shooting two young sisters in the head after raping and shooting their mother is facing execution, the second under Gov. Charlie Crist.

Unless the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes, Richard "Ric Ric" Henyard, 34, will be executed Tuesday by lethal injection at 6 p.m. at Florida State Prison for the murders of 7-year-old Jamilya Lewis and her 3-year-old sister, Jasmine.

Henyard, 34, and a younger accomplice carjacked Dorothy Lewis and her daughters outside a grocery store in the Central Florida town of Eustis on the night of Jan. 30, 1993. Henyard, then 18, raped Lewis and then shot her multiple times at close range, but she survived. He then participated in the shooting deaths of her daughters after they cried out for their mother.


Mark Gruber, one of Henyard's state-paid attorneys, filed two appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court last week, hoping to delay the execution. There are 387 men and one woman on Florida's death row and Crist said he wants to begin executing those who committed the most heinous crimes after they complete their appeals.

http://www.local6.com/news/17537070/detail.html

[babylonsister]

1. No sympathy here. nt

[hobbit709]

2. Nor here

[cali]

6. it's not a matter of sympathy. My opposition to the death penalty

has little to do with sympathy for someone like this.

[babylonsister]

7. Maybe not for you, but I think some people just don't

deserve to share air with me, if it's been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt they're guilty.

[Adsos Letter]

13. For me it is about forfeiting the right to live....

when some one willing takes another life under these circumstances.

[holybarcode]

3. Good riddance.

...

[norepubsin08]

4. I am against the death penalty period!

[Orsino]

16. Ditto.

:scared:

[sharp_stick]

5. It's dirtbags like this

that really try my opposition to the death penalty.

Knowing this is Florida they will likely carry on their tradition of botching executions and I don't feel too bad about it.

[aikoaiko]

8. His admission of guilt and blood stained socks satisfies my need for certainty in applying the DP

No one innocent being executed here. Can anyone say he doesn't deserve the DP?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

9. Nope, still against the DP. Always was, always will be. -nt

[greguganus]

10. Just shoot him in the head like he did the children. n/t

[asteroid2003QQ47]

11. He killed 2 kids, destroyed their mother's life,...

execute him a third at a time!
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I did not get my Spaghetti-O's, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this.
--Thomas J. Grasso, d. March 20, 1995
Executed by lethal injection, Oklahoma
:rofl:

[renate]

12. I admire people who oppose the death penalty even for criminals like this

I honestly do.

I wish I could be that compassionate towards someone who has done nothing to deserve compassion, other than to be a living being--which is a pretty compelling reason to deserve compassion, I admit. But when I think of those terrified, innocent little girls, and their poor equally innocent mother who has suffered so much and for so long, I just can't make myself feel anything about his execution but glad.

I do hope his soul finds peace. I think I can say that honestly. But I can't be sad about this execution. When he chose this action, he chose the consequences.

[anigbrowl]

19. I'm not compassionate

He's a grade-A asshole who deserves to die. But I'm against the government having the power to execute people, because there's ample evidence that that power gets misused.

[msanthrope]

22. Bingo---no sympathy for this shitbag, at all. Just wary of how

the execution power gets used.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

23. The main reason to oppose executing bad people is to avoid executing less bad people.

Whether or not there are some people so wicked that it is just for the state to murder them is debateable.

However, even if there are, the state still shouldn't murder them, because if it does so, it will inevitable also murder other people who either are innocent or are guilty but didn't commit crimes severe enough to deserve the death penalty.

We need to keep people like this alive, as a safety buffer against executing other, less severe criminals (or, possibly, we need to keep people like this alive because he's been wrongly convicted, although that seems unlikely).

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

14. Shame it's taken 15 years to kill him.

[OhioChick]

15. Should've been done sooner. n/t

[bean fidhleir]

17. What a huge difference between this case and Troy Davis's

Yet Davis is to be killed too.

There is no justice.

[Midlodemocrat]

18. Horrible crime, but I still oppose the DP in all cases.

State sanctioned killing. Not right.

[KitchenWitch]

20. As heinous as the crime was, and it was heinous

I oppose killing people for killing people to show that killing people is wrong.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

21. Hope he enjoyed his last meal

Those poor little girls never had a chance to realize their dinner that night would be their last with their mother.

Burn in hell, you miserable coward.