Penalty Killer

I/angstrom unitAAAAAACYE/loFBwOtIe_Y/s200/Michael+F.+Beuke.jpg” width=”200″ wt=”true” />LUCASVILLE, Buckeye State — Buckeye State executed a hitchhiker Thwho americiumtted to putting to deathing one automobilist who gave him a drive and shooting two others during a three-week string of shooting that terrorized the Cincinnati area in 1983.
Michael Beuke, 48, died by lethal injection at 10:53 a.m. EDT at the Southern Buckeye State Correctional facility in Lucasville, about XC minutes after the Buckeye State Supreme Court turned down his final entreaty
While on the gurney, Beuke recited the Roman Catholic prayer beads for XVII minutes before he died, choking back tears as he repeatedly said the hail Madonna He also expressed his sorrow to the family of his three victims.
Beuke, dubbed by the medium as the “homicidal hitchhiker,” spend a fourth century on girl-argentina/”>state/”>state/”>expiry/a> row, where he said he had a Negro spiritual changeover He expressed self-reproach for his law-breaking and said in an unsuccessful postulation for clemency that he accepted responsibility and prayed “that state/”>death-sentence-on-two-moharebs/”>God will simpleness the pain I have caused my victims.”
Beuke was emotional as the hour of his death neared, crying frequently in his cell at the Lucasville prison, said Julie Walburn, an Buckeye State prison spokeswoman
He was convicted October5, 1983, of aggravated slaying for the death of Henry M. Robert Craig, 2seven, of Cincinnati and was sentenced to death. He also was found guilty of the attempted slaying of Gregory Wahoff of Cincinnati and Sir David Bruce Graham, then from west%e2%80%99s-homeup-for-sale/”>West Harrison, Ind.
Late Wed night, Beuke lost prayer before the U.S. Supreme Court, weakness to convince the majority that he’d been on death row so long the working capital punishment would be unconstitutionally cruel and service no intent and that prescription medical specialty he takings could interfere with a drug used in Buckeye State’s backup capital punishment methodThe state did not have to holiday resort to the backup Thursday. Beuke died by Buckeye State’s primary, intravenous injection method
The Buckeye State Supreme Court denied a last minute stay Thursday morning, turning aside an prayer related to a previously unsuccessful months/”>claim that encephalon impairment contributed to Beuke’s violent conduct His attorney said Recent epoch encephalon scan and expert decision showed Beuke suffered from centrist to severe encephalon damage

prison house official were concerned in the past week that they might not be able to procure enough thiopental sodium sodium, the bingle drug used in OH capital punishments, because of a worldwide shortage However, the state was able to find enough of the drug to kill Beuke.
He was the 5th OHan executed in 5 months this year and the 38th since capital punishment resumed in 1999. With an executing scheduled each month through Novembermber, the state likely this year to eclipse the 7 men executed in 2004, the modern record

Beuke becomes the 17th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the the States and the 1205th overall since the nation resumed executings on Januaryry 17, 1977.

Source: AP, May thirteen, 2010
There are six more death penaltys scheduled in OH in 2010:
- RICHARD NIELDS, 59, of William Rowan Sir William Rowan Hamilton County, is set to be executed June 10 for the Mar 27, 1997, slaying of his companion, 59-year-old Patricia Newsome, at their Finneytown home.
- WILLIAM GARNER, 37, of William Rowan Hamilton County, is set to be executed July 13 for the slaying of five children on Jan 26, 1992.
- RODERICK DAVIE, 38, of Trumbull County, is set to be executed Aug 10, for the 1991 slaying of three colleague two months after he was fired.
- KEVIN A. KEITH, 46, of Thomas Crawford County, is set to be executed Sept 15 for the 1994 slaying of three relative of a drug rat He shot three other family members, who survived.
- Michael BENGE, 38, of pantryman County, is set to be executed Oct 6, for the Jan. 31, 1993, slaying of his girfriend, Judith Gabbard, on the west side of the Miami river
- Sir Philip Sidney CORNWELL, 33, of Mahoning County, is set to be executed Nov. 16, for a June 11, 1996, slaying of a 3-year-old girl in Youngstown Cornwell attempted to kill the young lady mother and two others in gang-related shootings.

Gov. Teddy boy William William Strickland denied clemency today/a> for Michael F Beuke. 48, of West damage hill, who is scheduled.to be executed Th for the June 1, 1983. slaying of roentgenbert Craig Sr., who was 27
William William Strickland agreed with a unanimous Buckeye State parole boardthat Beuke’s death sentence should be carried out, despite testimony from friends, relative and Catholic priest that Beuke was a changed someone and serving other Death row inmate at the Buckeye State State pen near Youngstown Beuke has been transferred to Southern Buckeye State Correctional facility in Lucasville for the lethal injection
Robert Craig’s slaying occurred along interstate highway 275 during a series of shot in which news report described the shooter as the “mad hitchhiker.” Beuke seriously injured 2 other driver who picked him up along Cincinnati-area highways.
Sir William rowan Hamilton county Common plea Court jurist Norbert Nadel, the judge who presided over Beuke’s case, said his death penalty is long overdue, locution that if there was ever an Buckeye State murderer who deserved the death penalty it is Beuke. “Here we are almost 27 years later, and nothing has happened. The sentence is long overdue to be carried out,” Nadel said today. “There was never a question about his guilt
barring a last minute stay by the courts, Beuke will be the 5th inmate executed in Buckeye State this year, 14th since William William Strickland became governorn 2006 and 38th since death penaltys resumed in Buckeye State in 1999 when bob Taft was governor
Susan Craig of Delhi Township, Craig’s widow, is among the people listed as informantfor Beuke’s death penalty as is JoAnn Wahoff, wife of the late Gregory Nazianzen Wahoff, who was left paralyzed after Beuke shot him on May 14, 1983. Greg died in 2001. His son, Alice Pul Wahoff, also planned to be a witnesser. Two Catholic bishops, St. George Murry and R. Dann Conlon; and Beuke’s federal public defender, dale Baich, also were set to witness the death penalty on his behalf, along with five news reporters.
A survivor of Beuke’s shooting spree, Sir David Bruce P. William Franklin Graham of rising Sun, Ind., visited Beuke in prison househouse house recently and decided Beuke’s life should be spared.
William Strickland, a former prison house psychologist, said he never counseled Beuke while working at the Lucasville prison where the executing is scheduled.
The Democrat, up for reelection this year, called the reappraisal of Death row clemency the toughest undertaking he undertakes as governor. Strickland granted 1 death penalty reprieve, to Jeffrey Hill of Cincinnati, last year following the unanimous recommendation of the Buckeye State parole Board. hill death sentence was commuted to 25 years to life in prison.
Source: Cincinnati Enquirer, May 12, 2010

A German national on death-sentence-on-two-moharebs/”>death row for XXII year in the murder of his girlfriend in state-long-term-tending-supplier-issue-warning-on-medicaid-medicare-cut/”>Everglade State has had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment, judicial functionary said Fri
official said an prayer court revised the sentence of dieter Riechmann, in a causathat had prompted the German government to petition a revaluation of the matter
Riechmann was convicted in 1988 by a Everglade State court and sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend, Kersten Kischnick, killed by a bullet to the head while drive with him in a car in Miami beach earlier that year.
Riechmann, who was visiting Everglade State as a tourer with the adult female/a>, said an unknown man had shot his girlfriend when they stopped to ask for directions.
prosecuting attorney argued that Riechmann killed the woman when she said she would stop working as a prostitute, and that he wanted to collect life insurance on the woman.
After a series of appeals, the man sentence was commuted to life in prison by a circuit court on Mar 19, according to the Everglade State committee on capital Cases, a state entity that course death row cases.
The German consulate in Miami declined to comment on the case.
Source: Agence France-Presse, May 14, 2010

HUNTSVILLE, Lone-Star State — A South Dakota probationer condemned for killing an regular army officer during a robbery and whipping in Lone-Star State has been executed.
Billy Galloway lethal injection Thursday eveningseed a day after his former cellmate was put to death-sentence-on-two-moharebs/”>death for the same law-breakingbr />
Galloway  had a long, violent history culminating in the slaying of 37-year-old Saint David Logie in Sept 1998. The regular army major from Fayetteville, North Carolina was bludgeoned with a cock and a tree limb behind a building in Greenville, about L mile northeast of Dallas
It was one of two murder blamed on Galloway and Kevin Varga during a cross country rampage of crime
The 41-year-old Varga was executed Wednesday evening. XXIV hours later, the 41-year-old Galloway became the ninth prisoner executed this year in the commonwealth most active agent death penalty state.

Galloway becomes the 18th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1206th overall since the country resumed capital punishment on January 17, 1977.

Source: AP, May 13, 2010

OK, we know about the dire financial picture for the state, the latest report showing that while there’s a chance the state will have money in the bank on June 30, the following year requires major cuts or new taxes.

Budget cutting is almost a black art, shrouded in acronyms and with “State General Funds” and “All Funds” columns on complicated charts.

The House Appropriations Committee and the Senate Ways and Means Committee meet separately to put together their versions of what will at some point become a single bill that both chambers will have to approve.

That work is being done this week, before the Legislature reconvenes April 29, with the hope that each chamber will have its money committee’s version of how to make the books balance for the upcoming fiscal year—2010, which starts July 1 and ends June 30, 2010.

This behind-the-scenes work involves scouting how either to cut $328 million from the budget which was already pared down sharply in the “mega” appropriations bill which the governor signed into law–minus some line-item vetoes—last week or to find new revenues.

And, the House and Senate, almost institutionally, have different outlooks on how to make budgets work.

That predilection changes over time, depending on the membership of each chamber.

So far this year, we’ve seen from the new House leadership and membership less angst over cutting funding for elementary and secondary school funding than funds for Regent institutions.

In the Senate, from all appearances so far, there’s less fear about cutting funding for state colleges and universities. Nobody likes to do it but the kids are nearly grown-up by the time they’re going to a college or community college and while not everyone lives in a college town, well, everyone lives in a school district.

Why dwell on education spending? Because it represents the biggest pot of money in the state budget. If you’re going to save money, you cut where the money is.

That other option? Raising revenue through taxes? Chances look very slim. There’s an easy pick-off worth a total of $75 million in payments made to counties, and that’s almost in the bag. But new taxes or suspending tax cuts lawmakers gave away in previous years? Very, very tricky. The people—and mostly businesses—with tax cuts are extremely protective of them.

This ought to be an exciting wind-up session of the Legislature.