Iowa drug kingpin who killed 5 people in 1993 to be executed

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Ryan J. Foley, Associated Press
Updated 12:16 pm CDT, Thursday, July 16, 2020

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A ruthless Iowa meth kingpin who killed five people, including two young girls, in 1993 to thwart his prosecution for drug trafficking is set to become the third federal inmate to be executed this week.

Dustin Honken, 52, would become the first Iowa defendant to be put to death since 1963 if he is executed as scheduled on Friday. Iowa abolished the death penalty in 1965, but federal prosecutors sought to execute Honken for killing government informants and children.

Honken is set to die by lethal injection at the prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, where he's been on death row since 2005 and two other men have been put to death since Tuesday after a 17-year hiatus in federal executions. His appeals to delay the execution have so far been denied.

“He does deserve what he’s getting. I can tell you that. He deserved it a long time ago,” said Susan Torres, 54, who plans to attend the execution with other victims' relatives.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/article/Iowa-drug-kingpin-who-killed-5-people-in-1993-to-15412762.php

[SharonClark]

1. I'm against the death penalty but I make an

exception for Honken. He is chillingly amoral and unremorseful.

[marble falls]

3. Stand strong against the death penalty. The fact that someone can pick out a "poster child" ...

for execution demonstrates the impossibility of equal imposition of it.

State sanctioned murder is murder.

[Yeehah]

4. Then you are not against the death penalty.

I oppose the death penalty because I don't want the government to have the power of life and death. Our state and federal governments are full of malicious, corrupt imbeciles.

[Progressive Jones]

2. This prick ought to be executed by being skinned alive. nt

[Damn Yellowdawg Dem]

5. Iowa Drug Kingpin

I can honestly say this is the first time I've seen those three words together.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

7. It's not uncommon.

Louie Fratto
Charles Gioe

Iowa has a history of organized crime and extreme meth use.

[The Mouth]

6. Good riddance.

Flame away.