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Eugene

(61,593 posts)
Fri Jul 17, 2020, 05:33 PM Jul 2020

Iowa meth kingpin is 3rd executed by US government this week

Source: Associated Press

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — The U.S. government on Friday put to death an Iowa chemistry student-turned-meth kingpin convicted of killing five people, the third execution by the federal government in a week.

Dustin Honken, who prosecutors said killed key witnesses to stop them from testifying in his drugs case, received a lethal injection at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. Two others were also put to death during the week after a hiatus of nearly 20 years, including Kansan Wesley Purkey. His lawyers contended he had dementia and didn’t know why he was being executed.

The first in the spate federal executions happened Tuesday, when Daniel Lewis Lee was put to death for killing a family in the 1990s as part of a plot to build a whites-only nation. Lee’s execution, like Purkey’s, went ahead only after the U.S. Supreme Court gave it a green light in a 5-4 decision hours before.

Honken, of Britt, Iowa, had been on death row since 2005 and was the first Iowan with a death sentence imposed by Iowa jurors to be executed since 1963. Iowa struck the death penalty from state statutes in 1965, but Honken was eligible for the death penalty under U.S. law because he was tried in federal court.

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By MICHAEL TARM
16 minutes ago


Read more: https://apnews.com/824b3ba56e1be497e98100b9e7b91420




FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2004 file photo, Dustin Honken is led by federal marshals to a waiting car after the second day of jury selection in federal court in Sioux City, Iowa. A federal judge has denied the Iowa drug kingpin's requests to delay his execution, which is scheduled for Friday, July 17, 2020. U.S. District Judge Leonard Strand wrote Tuesday, July 14 that he would not intervene to delay Honken's execution date due to the coronavirus pandemic. He said the Bureau of Prisons was in the best position to weigh the health risks against the benefits of carrying out the execution. (Tim Hynds/Sioux City Journal via AP, File)
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Iowa meth kingpin is 3rd executed by US government this week (Original Post) Eugene Jul 2020 OP
cranking up the carnage, more red meat to the christofascist base. Thomas Hurt Jul 2020 #1
Was there a Los Pollos Hermanos involved in this? Initech Jul 2020 #2
That was my first thought too. LeftofObama Jul 2020 #4
Republicans love killing people. louis-t Jul 2020 #3
I'm far from a Republican, but this shit stain had it coming. Read up on him. nt Progressive Jones Jul 2020 #5
facts of the case VladmireTrumpkins Jul 2020 #6
Isn't spending every moment behind bars like a caged animal idziak4ever1234 Jul 2020 #7
I think one would have to experience both to truly know. OneCrazyDiamond Jul 2020 #8
Did he deserve it? Yes. Should we be doing it? No. Mr. Ected Jul 2020 #9
+100. dware Jul 2020 #10

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
1. cranking up the carnage, more red meat to the christofascist base.
Fri Jul 17, 2020, 05:39 PM
Jul 2020

a little authoritarian crackdown, increase the executions...what next?

louis-t

(23,199 posts)
3. Republicans love killing people.
Fri Jul 17, 2020, 06:08 PM
Jul 2020

They feel it is their lot in life to punish people. It's a sickness.

VladmireTrumpkins

(370 posts)
6. facts of the case
Fri Jul 17, 2020, 07:02 PM
Jul 2020

While out on bond in his drugs case in July 1993, Honken and his girlfriend Angela Johnson kidnapped Lori Duncan and her two daughters from their Mason City, Iowa, home, then killed and buried them in a wooded area nearby. Ten-year-old Kandi and 6-year-old Amber were still in their swimsuits on the hot summer day when they were shot execution-style in the back of the head.

Their primary target that day was Lori Duncan’s then-boyfriend, Greg Nicholson, who also lived at the home and was also killed. He and Lori Duncan were bound and gagged and shot multiple times.

As the investigation into Honken continued, he killed another drug dealer working with him, Terry DeGeus, beating him with a bat and shooting him.

NO SYMPATHY FROM ME!


https://apnews.com/824b3ba56e1be497e98100b9e7b91420


OneCrazyDiamond

(2,029 posts)
8. I think one would have to experience both to truly know.
Fri Jul 17, 2020, 08:22 PM
Jul 2020

Beyond that impossibility (sorry to all who believe in reincarnation), I think it would still be subjective. It's a freaky world.

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
9. Did he deserve it? Yes. Should we be doing it? No.
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 08:37 AM
Jul 2020

The only punishment that truly fits the crime is to be completely, 100% separated from all of society, imprisoned in solitary without human interaction (except for remote access to legal assistance), as he has demonstrated that human life is of no value to him whatsoever, AND society deserves to be protected from him and his soulless recklessness.

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