Death wish: Texas executes Danny Bible, who wanted a firing squad or poison gas. He got neither
Danny Bible molested children, raped women and committed four murders
The US state of Texas on Wednesday executed a serial murderer dubbed “the ice pick killer,” who had filed an unusual last-minute appeal asking for execution by a firing squad or lethal gas.
Instead, the state put Danny Bible to death the same way it has six other condemned prisoners so far in 2018 – by lethal injection. Bible died at 6.32pm. He made no final statement.
The condemned man had confessed to molesting several children, raping multiple women and murdering four people. He was sentenced to death in 2003 for the killing of 20-year-old Inez Deaton in 1979. Her body was found near a Houston bayou, stabbed multiple times with an ice pick.
Bible’s execution took place soon after the Supreme Court denied a final appeal Wednesday, in which the inmate’s lawyers claimed Parkinson’s disease and other ailments had left the 67-year-old man’s veins too unreliable for intravenous injection.
We are glad to have witnessed him draw his last breath. I know that he will burn in hell for eternity
They argued his execution would be too painful and suggested the wheelchair-bound convict instead be put to death by firing squad or a lethal dose of gas.
Since Texas law only allows for lethal injections, Bible’s execution effectively would have been delayed for at least a year, had the appeal been granted, until the state’s legislature could consider other methods.
