The prisoner of the suicide bombers Roy Lee Ward will be executed on Friday in the Indiana state prison in the Michigan city after it exhausts all legal options to stop his execution.
Governor Mike Brown made a brief statement on September 29 that he would follow the recommendations of the Council on the conditionally -related exemption of the state of Indiana in order to move forward from the execution.
“After a thorough consideration of the unanimous recommendation of the Council on the conditionally -related release in Indiana, I decided to allow the execution of Roy Lee Ward, as planned on October 10,” Brown said in a statement.
The Council on the conditional release of Indiana unanimously recommended that Brown denies Ward's request for a negotiation about his death sentence, the chairman of the Council for the conditionally release of Indiana Gwendolin Hort wrote in a letter in Brown on September 24.
In July 2001, Ward went to the 15-year-old house of Steysi Pace in Dale and convinced her to let him inside, according to the trials.
The younger sister of Staisi, who was dozing upstairs, woke up from the screams of Staisi. Her sister saw a man on the top of Staisi, while Staisi begged him to stop, according to the trials.
After her sister called the police, the city marshal arrived and saw that Ward was in the doorway inside the house holding the knife. According to court protocols, after coming to the handcuffs, the marshal discovered Steisi on the floor in a massive blood pool, conscious and traumatic injuries, corresponding to rape and knife blows.
The local hospital was not prepared for the treatment of Steisi injuries, so she was taken to the hospital of the University of Louisville, where she died about five hours after Ward entered her house, according to the judicial protocols.
After recognizing himself guilty of rape and murder, Ward was sentenced to death twice – first the jury of Spencer County in 2002, and then the jury of the Clay County in 2007, after the Supreme Court of Indiana abolished the initial sentence.
Hort was written by Hort, the “cruel character” of the arrival of rape and murders committed against Payne, “pondered”. During the public hearings at the request of Ward, the board heard the testimony that Staisi “was aware and realized throughout her attack and her last hours living with the injuries that Roy Lee Ward inflicted on her,” Khort wrote.
“The nature and circumstances of the crime of the Ward were largely considered by this advice on the recommendation,” Hort wrote. “Frankly, this council is considering thousands of cases a year, many with terrible facts, but the victimization of Steisi Pace stood out for us.”
The board received the petition of Ward to have a pardon in order to abandon his death sentence for a sentence in a prison without conditional release on September 5, Hort writes.
Ward had to interview the rule on September 19, but the board received in advance an email that Ward had refused an interview, but still wanted to pursue a pardon, Hort wrote.
“Unable to discuss the facts and circumstances of the crime with the city of Ward, as we often do in the process of pardon, the Council could not get additional information to understand what could lead to these terrible actions,” Hort wrote.
The board held a public hearing on September 22 and heard from the legal team of Ward and the state. Hort writes Hort wrote that Ward's legal group told the board that Ward was incorrectly diagnosed with an antisocial personality disorder and an output of the autism spectism was diagnosed.
Ward's lawyer said that the biggest difference between the two diagnoses is that someone with an antisocial personality disorder does not feel remorse, but someone with an autistic spectrum disorder feels remorse, wrote Hort. His legal team said that Ward expressed repentance in conversations with his lawyers, she wrote.
In the second trial of Ward, his lawyer called him a “heavy psychopath”, based on pre -trial psychiatric assessments, writes Hort.
During the public hearing, Capital Chronicle reported that the lawyers Ward Michelle Law and Larry Computer spent about 80 minutes before the Council on conditionally -war release.
“Roy is not a psychopath,” said Lowe. “His own lawyers called him that before … But Roy has feelings, and he himself admitted that he has disability and problems for which he wanted to help.”
But, writes Hort, the board gave “little weight” to any diagnosis. The diagnosis does not give details about why the crime occurred, she wrote.
The Staisi family testified before the rule of the remaining suffering, according to the Capital Capital Capital Chronicle.
“We will never hear her voice, we never have the joy of watching how she turned into an incredible woman whom she was supposed to be. Woe not just breaks our hearts, it changes what we are, and we cannot return, ”said her mother, Julie Weringer. “We must learn to exist in the world without stasis.”
In the consideration of Ward's petition for pardon, the board read out documents from the jury, appeal processes and proceedings for assistance after the invitation, as well as an expanded application for executive pardon with the documents of the Warda lawyer on his psychological estimates.
Ward has both youth and adult criminal offenses, Hort wrote, including public obscenity and persecution, as well as a trial period as a minor. Being an adult, Ward has an “extremely long” criminal story – with crimes covering Indiana, Kentucci and Missouri, including cases of batteries, thefts, thefts with hacking, fakes, drug crimes, obscene effects and public obscenity, she wrote.
As a prisoner, Ward was registered 14 times for incidents, including sexual behavior, the use of a controlled substance and a battery against a criminal, writes Hort.
“This scheme of behavior reflects its criminal story and has a tendency to report that Mr. Ward is still fighting any suffering, forces him to behave like that,” Hort wrote.
The Warda Lawyers team continues to dispute the use of the drug Pentobarbital in the executions, referring to the evidence that this can cause pulmonary pulmonary edema and the feeling of drowning, the Chronicle Indiana Capital Chronicle reports.
They point to the execution of Benjamin Richie in May, when the witnesses were reported, they saw the prisoner “upward, as if to him, in a spasm” after injection, the reaction, according to them, is “incompatible with the normal consequences of an unused pentobarbital,” reports the capital of Indiana.
In anticipation of the federal trial represented by Ward, the Indiana General Prosecutor's Office confirmed last week that the department of correctional institutions received three sets of pentobarbital.
The guard from the Indiana state prison Ron Neil said in the jury submitted by the judge of the Northern District that two of these sets expire at the end of October, and the third set expires in March 2026.
