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Monday, December 31, 2012

JUSTICE FOR THE BUSBY FAMILY (MURDERED BY HANK SKINNER ON 31 DECEMBER 1993)



           19 years ago on this day (31 December 1993), Twila Busby and her two adult sons were murdered in Texas. I will give my condolences to the Busby family and also write a rebuttal essay to the abolitionists.


            As usual, “innocent, innocent, innocent” propaganda, there is a website in support of that killer, ‘Justice For Hank Skinner’ http://www.hankskinner.org/#. Since I became a supporter of the death penalty, I researched the court transcripts and victims’ rights websites; I will NOT even waste a second to read that dishonest anti-death penalty garbage.
            I got this information about the case from:  


Henry Watkins Skinner lived with Twila Busby and her two adult sons, Randy Busby and Elwin Caler, both of whom had mental retardation. Between 10:15 and 10:30 p.m., on December 31, 1993, Howard Mitchell came to the residence to take Skinner and Twila to a New Year's Eve party. Howard found Skinner asleep on the couch and was unable to wake him. Skinner had apparently been drinking. Leaving Skinner on the couch, Twila and Howard went to the party, but Twila soon asked to be taken home because her uncle, Robert Donnell, was drunk and was following her around, making rude sexual advances, and generally agitating her. Howard drove Twila home between 11:00 and 11:15 p.m., and left. At around midnight, Elwin showed up on a neighbor's porch with stab wounds, from which he subsequently died. Twila was found dead on the living room floor of her home, and Randy's dead body was found lying face down on the top bunk bed in the sons' bedroom. Skinner was found by police at Andrea Reed's house, located three-and-a-half to four blocks away, at around 3:00 a.m. When the police found him, Skinner was standing in a closet and wearing clothing that was heavily stained in blood on both the front and back. At trial, Andrea testified that Skinner arrived at her house at around midnight and that they conversed for three hours. She did not know how he entered her trailer, but when she saw him, he took his shirt off and laid it on a chair. Skinner had a bleeding cut in his right hand. He heated up sewing needles and attempted to bend them to sew up his hand, and then he asked her to sew it, and she agreed. At some point, he went to the bathroom by himself. During their conversation, Andrea attempted to leave the room and call the police, but Skinner stopped her and threatened to kill her. Skinner told Andrea multiple stories about what happened at his home. He claimed that a Mexican came to the door and pulled a knife, that Twila was in bed with her ex-husband with whom Skinner got into a fist-fight, that Skinner thought he had killed Twila by trying to kick her to death, that Ricky Palmer broke into the house, and that cocaine dealers were looking for Twila and wanted her really bad. The medical examiner found that Twila had been strangled into unconsciousness and subsequently beaten at least fourteen times about the face and head with a club. DNA testing matched the blood on Skinner's clothing to Twila and Elwin. Three bloody handprints matching Skinner's were found in the house: one in the sons' bedroom and two on doorknobs leading out the back door. A toxicological test of Skinner's blood, conducted at 5:48 a.m., showed that Skinner had 0.11 milligrams of codeine per liter of blood and a blood alcohol level of 0.11. Defense counsel presented three defenses at trial. First, defense counsel focused on the State's failure to test some of the DNA evidence to show that the State engaged in a sloppy investigation. Second, defense counsel painted Robert Donnell as an alternate suspect who could have committed the murders. Finally, defense counsel presented evidence that Skinner was too incapacitated by his intoxication to have committed the murders. Dr. William Lowry, the defense toxicologist, testified that most people at Skinner's level of intoxication would be comatose or asleep, and in any event, between 12:00 and 3:30 a.m., Skinner would have been in a stupor, with impaired consciousness, general apathy, and an inability to stand or walk. Dr. Lowry believed that Skinner was too incapacitated to travel to different rooms to kill the victims. However, Dr. Lowry was surprised that Skinner could locate Andrea's house at midnight and that he asked her to sew up his hand. Skinner was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death. 

I also encourage those who truly care for the victims and their families to read the following sites:

My response to the Abolitionists:
The killer, Hank Skinner married Sandrine Ageorges while on Texas death row in 2008. Sandrine Ageorges-Skinner, a French national, has been an anti-death penalty activist for more than 30 years—well before she met Skinner. She has corresponded with numerous death row inmates and has participated in numerous protests against the death penalty. Sandrine Ageorges-Skinner was banned from visiting or corresponding with Mr. Skinner because of violations of prison policies—a charge both claim was fabricated but, because the Texas Department of Criminal Justice refuses to release records, the claim cannot be supported or contradicted. Sandrine Ageorges-Skinner has received the official support of the French Government in her persistent efforts to save her husband from execution and prove his innocence. France generally opposes the death penalty in all cases.

I would like to say several things to Sandrine Ageorges:

“You have your own criminals to deal with in your own country, why do you want the French government and the European Union to interfere with Texas? Even the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott told the EU to leave them alone.

“Do you know you are bringing pain to Lisa Busby and her family members? Please be sensitive to their feelings, what if it was your family member who was murdered instead?”

“If you love to correspond with Death Row Inmates, why can you not go to Islamic countries or other Asian countries? Why? It is because I know the government there will kick you out for sure.”

“I heard you once calling Texas, ‘killing fields’ because they execute murderers. No way, the real killing fields are countries with high homicide rates like Brazil, Mexico and South Africa.”

“Whenever the abolitionists use former exonerated Death Row inmates to speak, they are not telling you that one of them, Joseph Green Brown has just murdered his wife. On April 8, 2010, former death row inmate Timothy B. Hennis, once exonerated in 1989, was reconvicted of a triple murder, thereby dropping him from the list of those exonerated. He was sentenced to death by military court-martial 15 April 2010.”

Please think of the Busby family and ignore those abolitionists in Texas. When I hear them shout, “Stop executions now!” and carry that slogan.

I wonder if they would bother doing that at the embassies of the following countries for these criminals:

Indian Embassy for Ajmal Kasab?

Indonesian Embassy for Amrozi?

Iran Embassy for The Black Vultures?

Japanese Embassy for their violent criminals?

United Arab Emirates Embassy for Al Rashidi?

            Anyway, here is the latest news:

Attorney General: DNA tests implicate Hank Skinner in 1993 murders
Posted: 11.14.2012 at 3:12 PM
Updated: 11.15.2012 at 8:40 AM
New DNA testing further implicates convicted murderer Henry "Hank" Skinner for the crime, according to the Texas Attorney General. 

Pronews 7 obtained the documents on Wednesday afternoon which were filed in a Gray County State District Court. 


Skinner was convicted in 1995 for the 1993 Pampa murders of Twila Busby, his live-in girlfriend and her two grown sons. The murder happened on New Year's Eve.

Initial DNA testing in 1995 implicated Skinner by showing that he was at the crime scene.

The new DNA results showed Skinner's blood in the back bedrooms of the home where the murder happened.

Skinner's DNA, according to the Attorney General's advisory, was also found on the handle of a bloody knife taken from the front porch of the home. At least one other contributor's DNA was also on the knife, according to the Attorney General.

While Skinner has not contested that he was at the crime scene, he maintained his innocence. He said he was unconscious and intoxicated on the couch at the time of the murders.

Skinner's attorney said the results should not have been released since the testing is still in progress.

"We find it troubling that the Attorney General's Office has seen fit to release partial results of the DNA testing and submit its 'advisory' to the court while the DNA testing is still in progress," said Rob Owen, attorney for Hank Skinner. "The partial results which have been produced by the initial round of DNA testing show that at least one person other than Hank Skinner and the victims may have been present in the house on the night the murders took place, and may have had contact with one of the weapons used in the killings."

Skinner was sentenced to the death penalty. He once came within one hour of being executed. Several times, the execution was postponed.

Skinner had contended that new DNA testing would show that he was innocent. Starting in 2000, he pleaded for more DNA testing.

"We have requested additional DNA testing that could improve the quality of the unknown DNA profile from the carpet sample, to allow authorities to submit it to CODIS, the national law enforcement DNA database, to search for matches there," Owen said. "We have also requested additional DNA testing of the stains from the knife, likewise hoping to develop further the DNA profile of the third contributor."

Click the video below to see archived footage from the 1993 murders.


 

Monday, December 24, 2012

THE CARNATION MASSACRE [PRO DEATH PENALTY QUOTE OF THE WEEK (VICTIMS’ FAMILIES IN THE U.S.A II) ~ SUNDAY 23 DECEMBER 2012 TO SATURDAY 29 DECEMBER 2012]




            Five years ago on Christmas’s Eve (24 December 2007), six people were murdered in Carnation, Washington. I will give the information from Wikipedia, before giving my comments and condolences to the grieving family. 



Sara Van Wyk and Pam Mantle
The Carnation Massacre was a mass murder that occurred on December 24, 2007, near Carnation, Washington, a small rural town 25 miles east of Seattle. The murders took place in the home of Wayne Scott Anderson and Judy Anderson. Six people were killed:
  • Wayne Scott Anderson, 60, a Boeing engineer
  • Judy Anderson, 61, postal worker, and wife of Wayne Scott Anderson
  • Scott Anderson
  • Erica Anderson, wife of Scott
  • Olivia Anderson, 6-year old daughter of Scott and Erica
  • Nathan Anderson, 3-year old son of Scott and Erica
Arrested and indicted as the perpetrators of the killings were Michele Kristen Anderson and her boyfriend, Joseph Thomas McEnroe, both aged 29. Michelle is the sister of Scott Anderson. Investigators have not pinpointed a motive for the slayings, but believe that a dispute over money may have led to the killings. The suspects waived their right to appear in court. Court papers say they have admitted the killing. 

According to official documents, Michele shot her father, and her brother and sister-in-law. According to the Seattle Times, if Michele Anderson is convicted, she may become the first woman in Washington State's history to receive the death penalty.

QUOTE: Sara Van Wyk has changed from being opposed to the death penalty to a strong supporter. In 2007, six members of her family including her sister Erica Anderson were murdered in Carnation, Wash. The accused murderers confessed and one even asked that she be put to death. Yet, nearly 4 years later the case still has not gone to trial. The defense bill to date is $3.2 million.

“When you lose a loved one so quickly and tragically without any warning” says Van Wyk. "There’s no way to factor the cost.” [Thursday 1 September 2011]

AUTHOR: Sara Van Wyk and Pam Mantle - Inside Mantle's Snohomish (U.S state of Washington) home, framed photos of Olivia and Nathan sit next to the television and on the kitchen counter, inches from a stack of Christmas cards and rows of fresh-baked chocolate-chip cookies. The photos are among the few images Mantle has left of the children who were slain on Christmas Eve two years ago (2007). Olivia, 5, Nathan, 3, and their parents, Erica and Scott Anderson, were among six people shot to death at the Carnation-area home of Scott's parents, Wayne and Judy Anderson, who also were killed in one of the state's worst mass slayings. Erica was Mantle's daughter. Michele Anderson, 31, Scott's sister and the daughter of Wayne and Judy Anderson, and her former boyfriend, Joseph McEnroe, 31, have been charged in the killings. Mantle and her daughter, Sara Van Wyk, say they are flooded with memories of Erica, Scott and the children. But only recently have they been willing to sit down and talk about the deaths and their impact on their family.

COMMENTS & CONDOLENCES:
            Sara Van Wyk and Pam Mantle, I am sorry for your losses. Like every other victims’ families who are in favor of the ultimate punishment, I support and pray for you all. I hope this blog here will comfort you. Sara Van Wyk, I like you was a former opponent of the death penalty, but the murder of Sally Anne Bowman and Amrozi’s execution (together with several other reasons) transformed me to a strong supporter of the death penalty.
            I do not trust the abolitionist group, ‘WCADP’. If they claim that the death penalty is too expensive, they are not honest at all. Even if the death penalty is eliminated, life without parole will become more expensive and they will ask for it to be abolished next. You can learn more here (Please also see the Californian Death Penalty Cost).
            When Cal Coburn Brown was executed in Washington on 10 September 2010, the victims’ families were satisfied that justice was served. Serial Killer, Robert Lee Yates is another Death Row inmate that most people want to see him die. If you want to see the death penalty retain in your State, ask prosecutors, police association and any victims’ rights group to start a campaign similar to Vote No on Proposition 34 in California.