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Convicted Central Texas Killer Among 12 On “Death Watch”
A convicted Central Texas killer is among 12 death row inmates whose executions are scheduled over the next six weeks.
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(October 12, 2008)—A convicted Central Texas killer is among 12 death row inmates whose executions are scheduled over the next six weeks.
Denard Manns was sentenced to death in 2002 in Bell County for the 1998 murder of Army Spc. Michelle Robson, who was sexually assaulted and shot in the head and chest.
Prosecutors said Manns took credit cards and cash from the victim’s residence in Killeen and fled in her car.
He was arrested after the murder on an unrelated weapons charge, but was charged in the killing after forensic tests linked the firearm to the murder.
He’s scheduled to receive a lethal injection on Nov. 13.
Two executions are scheduled for next week, two for the week after and two more the week after that.
Six more inmates, including Manns, are set to die in November.
“It's just the way of Texas,” said inmate Alvin Kelly, who’s the first of the 12 set to die when he heads to the state death chamber in Huntsville on Tuesday.
Kelly, unlike some of his fellow prisoners, says he looks forward to dying, but insists evidence in his case was manipulated and that he's innocent of shooting of 22-month-old Devin Morgan to death in East Texas in 1984.
The toddler's parents, Jerry and Brenda Morgan, were gunned down at the same time.
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Marlin - I agree with most of what you say, but what do you mean we have less freedom nowadays? Not arguing, just curious
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To RE in Waco.... We have TOO MUCH FREEDOM!?!?!? No, we don't, we have too little freedom! I am 55 years old and can tell you that the country we have today is NOT as free as it was when I was young. I think that what you meant was "We have too many people excusing criminals today." That we can agree on. When you excuse criminal conduct it makes it that less free for all honest people. Personally, I think that any appeals processes could be completed within five years, then they get the needle (or rope if it were my preference). The prison system should require video taping of the executions and show them on the televisions in the prisons we are forced to allow the criminals (instead of whatever they are showing now). Also, EVERYONE should be held to the same standards in the law. Color, Race, Religion, or anything else should not matter. I personally volunteer to be the one executing the criminals. Do the crime? Die for it!
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Erin, I know where you come from. I want things speeded along, and believe in the Death Penalty. On the other hand I hate the thought of an innocent person getting executed. What WOULD be nice is people owning up to what they did. Admitting thier guilt for a change.
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