BREAKING: The U.S. carried out its second federal execution this week, killing by lethal injection a Kansas man whose lawyers contended he had dementia and was unfit to be executed. Wesley Ira Purkey was put to death in Terre Haute, Indiana. https://t.co/OekPwIJZxu
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 16, 2020
7月16日电 据美国全国广播公司(NBC)报道,当地时间16日上午,美国一名68岁男子在印第安纳州被执行注射死刑,这也是美国在本周执行的第二次联邦死刑。
Wesley Ira Purkey was convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a 16-year-old girl and using a claw hammer to kill an 80-year-old woman who suffered from polio. https://t.co/OTFH1dfoMa
— WLBT 3 On Your Side (@WLBT) July 16, 2020
这名被处死的罪犯名叫韦斯利·伊拉·普基(Wesley Ira Purkey)。 2003年,他被指控强奸和谋杀一名16岁女孩,将其尸体肢解、焚烧后扔进化粪池。此外,他还曾在堪萨斯州用锤子杀害了一名80岁的老妇人。
Wesley Ira Purkey violently raped and murdered a 16-year-old girl, and then dismembered, burned, and dumped the young girl’s body in a septic pond. He also murdered an 80-year-old woman. His execution will occur on July 15, 2020. pic.twitter.com/0WFhYXsgje
— The Ocean of Crimes (@ocean_crimes) July 14, 2020
受害女孩
接受处决前,普基忏悔称,对自己给受害者家人带来的痛苦和折磨深感后悔:“我非常抱歉,也后悔给自己的女儿带来了痛苦,我非常爱我的女儿。”之后,普基于16日早上8点19分被执行死刑。
普基的律师此前辩称,普基从小多次遭到性侵,并被诊断出患有精神分裂症,躁郁症和其他精神疾病。而且,普基的病情已严重恶化,以至于他本人已经无法理解自己为什么要被处决。
Daniel Lewis Lee, who tortured and murdered a couple and their eight-year-old daughter and dumped them in water, was executed at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana https://t.co/uQZvlXqUwK
— SkyNews (@SkyNews) July 14, 2020
报道指出,这是美国政府17年来执行的第二次联邦死刑。14日,美国白人至上主义者丹尼尔·李于也被处决。他曾于1996年谋杀了一家三口,其中包括一名8岁儿童,并因此被联邦法院判处死刑,后被关押在印第安纳州的死囚牢房长达20多年。
今年4月,美国联邦上诉法院裁定,批准美国政府通过注射药物执行死刑。之后,美国司法部计划在7月13日至8月28日之间对4名死囚逐一行刑。
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