Chaos erupts, 2 arrested during Texas execution

[edpc]

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Chaos erupted outside Texas' death chamber when the son of the condemned inmate pounded on the chamber windows, shouted obscenities and threw fists after his father spoke his final words.

Billie Wayne Coble, a Vietnam War veteran who killed his estranged wife's parents and brother and threated to do the same to her in 1989, told five witnesses he selected to attend his Thursday night execution that he loved them. Coble then nodded as they watched from a witness room, saying: "Take care."

When he finished speaking, his son, grandson and daughter-in-law became emotional, and the men swung and kicked at others in the death chamber witness area. Officers stepped in but said the men continued to resist and were eventually moved to a courtyard, where both were handcuffed and arrested.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-set-executed-killing-estranged-wifes-family-050333074.html

[XenaLee]

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Chaos erupted outside Texas' death chamber when the son of the condemned inmate pounded on the chamber windows, shouted obscenities and threw fists after his father spoke his final words.

Billie Wayne Coble, a Vietnam War veteran who killed his estranged wife's parents and brother and threated to do the same to her in 1989, told five witnesses he selected to attend his Thursday night execution that he loved them. Coble then nodded as they watched from a witness room, saying: "Take care."

When he finished speaking, his son, grandson and daughter-in-law became emotional, and the men swung and kicked at others in the death chamber witness area. Officers stepped in but said the men continued to resist and were eventually moved to a courtyard, where both were handcuffed and arrested.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-set-executed-killing-estranged-wifes-family-050333074.html

This is a perfect example of our dysfunctional "justice" system.   Thirty years later, after conviction, this guy is finally put to death... when he should have been executed within the first few years after his first conviction.  There was NO doubt of his guilt.... so it's not like there was any possibility that he was innocent. 

[rustynail]

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!

[Restored]

There was a whole big pile of disconnect in that room.

[edpc]

A prosecutor once described Coble as having "a heart full of scorpions."


Now, it's full of barbiturates and potassium chloride.

[XenaLee]

A prosecutor once described Coble as having "a heart full of scorpions."


Now, it's full of barbiturates and potassium chloride.

IMO, he was allowed to live 25+ years too many on the taxpayer's dime.  And he is just "one" inmate that is doing just that.... for no reason other than that the idiot left loves them some convicted murderers (while hating innocent infants in and out of the womb).

[mountaineer]

I posted this story in Ridiculous News, knowing it was ridiculous, but not sure whether it merited its own thread.