Michael Alan Foster - A Ramones Fan - RIP
Heiko Gerdes
black and wore a black leather jacket, much like the singer Joey Ramone....
yea yea: long hair = no good!
hg
http://www.prodeathpenalty.com/Pending/02/aug02.htm
Brian Davis was sentenced to die for the brutal murder of a retarded man,
Michael Alan Foster, who was 31 years old at the time. Davis and his
accomplice, Tina McDonald, picked Foster up at a bar and drove him home to
his apartment. Once they gained entry to his apartment, Davis stabbed
Michael eleven times, seven times in the heart. They then stole his black
leather jacket and left. Michael's body was found after three days. Six
days after the murder, the pair picked up another man at a bar, robbed him
and stabbed him with a knife, but this victim survived and testified against
them. Davis had been scheduled for execution in May 2002, but received a
stay. At the time he said, "Any date is serious. I don't want to die. But
the way I look at it is if you ask most people, they'd like to die in their
sleep. I'm going to die like most people want to die. I know when, and I
know how." Though mildly retarded, Michael Alan Foster lived an independent
life. He had his own apartment in Humble, held a steady job and went to
Houston on weekends to see punk rock bands. Foster, 31, loved the Ramones.
He grew his hair long, dyed his blond locks black and wore a black leather
jacket, much like the singer Joey Ramone. He frequented pubs and bars in the
Montrose area, sometimes carrying a pet rat, which earned him the nickname
"Rat" among the bar crowds. One of these excursions led to his brutal death
in 1991. Foster, a gentle man described at his funeral as "a lamb among
wolves," was stabbed seven times in the heart and neo-Nazi slogans were
written on his body. A swastika was drawn in ballpoint pen on his abdomen,
along with the letters "NSSH," for National Socialist Skin Heads. Skinhead
slogans were written on his living room wall near his body. His nose was
broken, consistent with having been kicked with a boot or shoe. Foster was
left for dead, his pockets turned inside out, his pants pulled down. The man
to be executed for the crime, Brian Edward Davis, a former La Porte resident
and divorced father of two teens, at one time confessed to the slaying,
saying Foster failed to pay gas money after being given a ride home. Today,
Davis claims he is innocent and that he took the blame to protect his
ex-wife. That former wife, Tina Louise McDonald, 31, who was divorced from
Davis in 1996 and is now serving a 40-year prison sentence in Gatesville for
a separate aggravated robbery, was never charged in the Foster murder. She
later gave written confessions, one as recently as last fall, saying she
stabbed Foster and claiming her ex-husband was not involved in the crime
-- but she has since recanted. Lawyers, armed with Davis' claim of innocence
and McDonald's written admissions, are working feverishly to delay the
execution. Others who have waited a decade for Davis to die by injection say
they want justice for Foster, a one-time Special Olympics participant who
rode his bicycle around Humble. "I can't wait until this guy's fried," said
Foster's sister, Pat Foster-Kupritz, 50, of Kingwood. "What goes around
comes around, and this guy is definitely getting his turn. ... I just can't
wait." Sister-in-law Molly Foster, 50, of Conroe said Michael Foster was
victimized by people "who took advantage of a wonderful, sweet man." Foster
crossed paths with the couple Aug. 10, 1991, at the Pik-N-Pak bar on Waugh
Drive, a biker-type icehouse where loud punk rock bands played. Mentally
retarded because of a birth defect and having no driver's license, Foster
took a bus into Houston on weekends, where he watched bands, hung out with a
skateboarding crowd and would introduce himself to strangers. Tall and
lanky, he bounced when he walked. His favorite possession was a black
leather jacket with safety pins on the sleeves. "That was his way of trying
to be accepted," said Jean Hatfield, 61, of Humble, a co-worker who helped
Foster with his finances and took him grocery shopping. He was nothing like
Davis, 22 at the time, with long hair, a swastika tattooed on his chest and
a terrific temper. Davis later described himself to police as "like a time
bomb waiting to go off." Davis, who quit school and once worked as a bridge
builder, already had spent time in jail. He was at the bar with McDonald,
whom he had met earlier at the Harris County Jail when she came to visit a
fellow inmate. The couple, who had been married a month, agreed to give
Foster a ride home to his Humble apartment in the 800 block of Wilson Road.
Davis later confessed that once they arrived, he began hitting Foster in the
face with his fists when Foster said he had no cash and offered some of his
records instead. Foster curled up in a ball and asked, "Why are you doing
this? What's the matter with you?" Davis said he thought he stabbed Foster
in the heart because blood shot out in spurts; he drew a diagram of the
apartment for detectives that was accurate, except backward. Today, Davis
says he confessed to protect his ex-wife, but no immunity promises were
made. He says he was too drunk to drive when they left the bar. The last
thing he claims to remember is getting in the back seat so McDonald could
drive. He says she dropped him off at their motel before taking Foster home.
"When I came to the next day, I'm in the motel room. I don't even remember
how I got to the motel," Davis said from death row in Livingston. "I was
pretty toasted. That's the way I lived. Jack Daniels and Budweiser were my
two best friends." He claims not to know whether McDonald had anything to do
with Foster's death, but he describes her as a "wild woman" who was a
skinhead when they met but has since given up any allegiance to the white
supremacy movement. Davis said he does not believe in racial hate, though he
defended his swastika tattoos as support for his own race. "I should never
have done what I did -- I should have never confessed to the crime," Davis
said. Police and prosecutors say evidence showed both McDonald and Davis
were involved in the slaying, but she wasn't charged. "I think it was a
joint effort," said Humble police Detective Charles W. Smith, noting that
Foster was killed with two different knives. "One killer doesn't switch
knives." Red hair, similar to McDonald's, was clenched in the dead man's
hand. Though nothing tied Davis to the scene, a witness saw the married
couple leave the bar with Foster. The witness remembered the tattoo on
Davis' chest. Police later recovered some of Foster's property, his leather
jacket and a Ramones tape, that had been in McDonald's car, along with a
knife with a broken tip. A week after Foster's death, a similar attack
happened at the Road Runner Motel on South Main in Houston, where a
42-year-old man who had met Davis and McDonald in a bar was stabbed in the
throat, chest, abdomen and back. A maid heard his screams, banged on the
door and threatened to call police. The victim ran out of the room and
survived. The couple were arrested in the attack, though Davis denies they
stabbed the man; he claims the real assailant ran away. But McDonald later
pleaded guilty to aggravated robbery for the incident. She was granted
immunity in Foster's slaying as part of a plea bargain, say lawyers trying
to stop Tuesday's execution. She later gave several written statements to
Davis' lawyers, saying her husband was not at Foster's apartment and that
she had killed Foster because he had put his hand on her waist. But in
January, she recanted that story and said her previous confessions were
lies. Prosecutors say her claims of killing Foster by herself were bogus.
"Tina confesses all the time -- she also confesses and says Brian was the
one who did it. It just depends how she feels about Brian at the time," said
Assistant District Attorney Roe Wilson. "There's no evidence to show she did
it by herself. I don't really think she was capable of beating this guy up
and stabbing him 10 times like that." From the moment he was born, Foster
suffered tragedies. His mental retardation was the result of not getting
enough oxygen during his birth, his sister said. He was the youngest of six
children, still in diapers when his mother moved out. The boy later went to
live with doting grandparents, but his grandmother was diagnosed with cancer
and became too ill to care for him when he was 6 or 7. He then went to live
with his mother in Corpus Christi. Tragedy struck again in 1977 when Foster
was 16 and his mother was killed in a car wreck. Police officers who went to
notify the family found the boy home by himself. After returning to Houston,
he lived in a Mental Health Mental Retardation Authority of Harris County
facility until he was able to get an apartment on his own in Humble. In that
small town northeast of Houston, he made his own life and worked for three
years at Valve Liquidators, where he was a reliable employee and rode his
bike to and from work. Hatfield, a mother figure to him, said Foster would
call her when he needed help. She recalled one rainy morning when he knocked
on her back door, and she brought him in and made him pancakes. "He was
always reaching out for someone to love -- that's why I think he would go
into Houston like he did to see the bands," said Hatfield, who lost a
daughter to cancer the same year Foster was slain. "I used to get onto him
about letting people come into his apartment and stay with him. He was like
a 9- or 10-year-old child, I would say. ... To me, he was just like one of
my kids. Every time he had a little problem, he'd call me, and we'd work it
out somehow." Foster likely would have forgiven the people who killed him,
one family member said. Others are not so forgiving. "A lot of people tell
me I'm cold-hearted, but it would not bother me to stand there and watch
that guy die," Hatfield said of Davis. "He was somebody's child -- somebody
loved him -- but he had crossed that line. Once he did that, there was no
going back. And the best thing to do is get rid of him." Davis said he
doesn't want to die, but he's ready if it happens. "I've lived with it for
11 years. I've witnessed a lot of my friends go to the Walls (prison unit in
Huntsville where inmates are executed) and never come back," said the
muscular inmate, who is covered with tattoos received in prison, including
swastikas on his chest and arm. "We're all under a death sentence. When we
were born, we were guaranteed one thing, and that's one day we will die.
Only thing is, I have a date to mine. I know when." Asked whether he will
say anything to Foster's siblings, who plan to attend his execution, Davis
said he probably won't make a last statement. "I feel sorry for them. I feel
bad this has happened," he said. "But what can I say? I'm just as much of a
victim as they are - my family, my boys are, so I can feel their pain. I
don't know what I could say to them. I couldn't tell them, `Hey, I'm sorry,
I apologize,' because I ain't done it. So if that's what they're looking
for, I can't give them that."
Heiko Gerdes
jacket, i would also want that this piece of shit would be hung high!
(but i never would paint my "originally nice blond hair" black to try to
look like joey. i'm butt ugly enough myself, so no need to look like a joey
fake)
hg
Cam
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>http://www.prodeathpenalty.com/Pending/02/aug02.htm
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That article is supposed to be pro death penalty? The guy was
convicted based partly on testimony of someone who later admitted
committing the crime herself. She later recanted, he of course has
recanted his own confession and no one will ever know which version is
the truth. If there is even the slimmest doubt how can any jury apply
the most severe penalty possible? Both of the skinheads should be in
jail for life but no one should die because of an arbitrary decision
to listen to one criminal instead of another.
Texas kills.
Johnny Fudgemonkey
Bono Vox, frontman of Irish Rock Band, U2 was quoted as saying "Quite
simply, without Michael, there would be no U2. They set the rule book for
the rest of us to follow. Yes, I know we said that about the Ramones, the
Clash, the Beatles, Nirvana and the Who, but this time we really mean it. Oh
yeah, and we quite liked that guy from Run DMC too".
ExRamonesFan
he knows he is. an asslicker. a fucking rockstar,
who thinks, he could make this world better.
it would be better he makes no so-called music,
and says no words, than this world is a bit better.
fuck death penalty!
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Heiko Gerdes
locate, mostly all websites are against it (except government, kkk, and
those other rednecks). Anyway.
I do an internet enquiry bout the reason why someone is pro this penalty
(eg, why some US states have this, why some not have this) and came along
that article. I thought "U, Da Ramon-es!"
Maybe we should better say "free Brian Davis" instead of free Joey Ramone,
hey?
hg [eye for an eye]
Robert Penttinen
Penty
WAPW
Loud, Fart, Ramones
ExRamonesFan is also dead, FINALLY !!
LFR
ExRamonesFan
what death penalty means, or what?
when humans start this,
they do the fucking same to the people they
say, they want to punish.
F U C K death penalty.
it's a shame for any human.
i think, you suck, and did not in any way
understand the lyrics of that dee dee-song.
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