Robert Leroy Bryan OK RIP

[softheart]

I will be screaming from the mountain tops they day I don't have any of these to post.

softie




OKLAHOMA----execution

Oklahoma Executes Man Who Gunned Down Aunt


Oklahoma executed a man on Tuesday who killed his aunt with a gunshot to
the head despite appeals to have his death sentence stayed on the grounds
that the murderer suffered from mental illness.

Robert Leroy Bryan, 63, was given a lethal injection of chemicals at the
state's death chamber in McAlester for killing his aunt Mildred Inabell
Bryan in 1993.

Attorneys for Bryan had tried to have the execution stayed, arguing that
their client is mentally incompetent and should not be executed.

The execution was delayed for about 80 minutes as the U.S. Supreme Court
considered a last-minute appeal before allowing the execution to go
forward, said Jerry Massie, a spokesman for the Oklahoma prison system.
"I've made peace with my maker," Bryan said in a barely audible voice in
his final statement. "I'll be leaving here shortly."

There were about 15 family members and friends on hand for the execution.

Bryan becomes the 5th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in
Oklahoma, and the 74th overall since the state resumed capital punishment
in 1990. Oklahoma trails only Texas (322) and Virginia (91) in the number
of executions carried out since the death penalty was re-legalized in
America on July 2, 1976.

Bryan becomes the 29th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in
the USA and the 914th overall since America resumed executions on January
17, 1977.

(sources: Reuters)

[Phil in Paris]

May you rest in peace Mr Bryan

Phil

[Kyla]

This breaks my heart once again. They put all these men ALL of them in a cage last week in OK, there was 43 men all together for 3 days, and they treat them ALL terrible, and then they kill them.

May Mr. Bryan rest in peace, and I pray for his family and friends, that are now victims as well. This is so sad.

[Keltria]

He was 63 years old, could they just not let him die of old age instead. This is sad - may you rest in peace Mr bryan - my thoughts are with you and your family