Rest In Peace:Tortured child-victim turned justifiably enraged serial killer of 5,Gary Allen Walker become the ultimate martyr,as your ultra-diseased society murders him,in OK
Joe1orbit
Okay folks, I have another VERY busy day ahead of me, and the news wires are
just HOPPING with interesting items, so I have decided to SERIOUSLY limit my
commentaries, just for today, so that I can squeeze in a DECENT number, at
least 4-6 posts, during this very busy day.
You DISEASED and INSANE society has done it again, legally murdering TWO of
it's victimized creations, who are now SUPREME martyrs, yesterday and last
night, a double murderer in TX, and a GENUINE serial/spree killer, 46 year old
TORTURED child and MENTALLY ILL victim Gary Allen Walker, in OK, who harvested
FIVE people during a 3-4 week long rampage WAY back in 1984. I CONDEMN both of
these acts of murder by your EVIL society, in the strongest possible way. And I
THANK you diseased creatures for providing all of us surviving societal
victims, with two new martyrs to AVENGE, in whatever manner our justifiably
enraged True Realities allow/dictate.
I am SAD that Gary has been murdered, but I am even SADDER that he chose to
ACCEPT his murder without FIGHTING for his life, and without delivering a FINAL
verbal message of RAGE and HATE towards his society and towards his murderers.
You had NO NEED to ask ANYONE for forgiveness, Gary. You owed no apology to
ANYONE. It was your SOCIETY and all of it's members that needed to FALL to
their knees and BEG YOU to forgive them, for having subjected you to a lifetime
of abuse, brutalization, and injustice, from the MOMENT of your birth onward.
Rest In Peace, Gary, you WILL be AVENGED!
Take care, JOE
The following appears courtesy of today's Reuters news wire:
Oklahoma executes killer of five
McALESTER, Okla., Jan 13 (Reuters) - Gary Allen Walker, who murdered four
women and a man in a 1984 killing spree was executed early Thursday by lethal
injection, an Oklahoma prisons spokesman said.
Walker, 46, was pronounced dead at 12:20 a.m. CST, four minutes after receiving
an injection of fatal chemicals at the state prison here, Oklahoma Department
of Corrections spokesman Jerry Massie said.
``I can only ask for your forgiveness,'' Walker said to his victims' relatives
in a final statement.
About 30 family members of the victims were on hand, more than the witness room
-- with space for a dozen -- could hold. Those who could not get in watched
from inside the prison on closed-circuit television, Massie said.
``The hate you have towards me, let it go,'' Walker said. ``I am sorry . I
don't know if I can even get the words out.''
``And now I am ready to go and the warden is ready to send me,'' Walker
concluded.
His last meal consisted of three cheeseburgers, three sliced tomatos, french
fries and a strawberry malt.
Walker was executed for the murder of Eddie Cash, a native of Broken Arrow,
Oklahoma. He was also convicted of killing Tulsa radio newswoman Valerie
Shaw-Hartzell, 25, and three other women -- Jayne Hilburn, Janet Jewell and
Margaret Bell Lydick -- apparently in a string of random encounters.
It was the state's 21st execution since Oklahoma reinstated the death penalty
in 1977 and resumed executions in 1990.
02:59 01-13-00
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The following appears courtesy of today's Associated Press news wire:
Texas, Okla. Execute Killers
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - A man who strangled a woman and child who lived next
door to him was put to death Wednesday, the 200th execution in Texas since
capital punishment resumed in the state in 1982.
Earl Carl Heiselbetz Jr., 48, was executed by injection for the 1991 killings
of Rena Rogers and her 2-year-old daughter, Jacy. Early Thursday, a convicted
killer was executed in Oklahoma.
Strapped to a gurney before the execution began, Heiselbetz looked at his
mother and father, who were watching through a window nearby, and said: ``Love
y'all. See you on the other side.''
Heiselbetz had said he could not remember killing the woman and child, who were
his closest neighbors in a secluded area near the Sabine National Forest in
east Texas.
Mrs. Rogers and her daughter disappeared after returning home from a midmorning
trip to the grocery store. Their remains were found a month later in a barn.
Prosecutors said Heiselbetz confessed after the bodies were found. They said
Heiselbetz, an unemployed truck driver, had gone over to the Rogers house to
make 1-900 calls for a sweepstakes and might have been caught there when the
woman and her daughter came home.
Texas leads all states in executions since the Supreme Court allowed the death
penalty to resume in 1976. Virginia is second with 72.
In McAlester, Okla., a man who strangled five people in 1984 was executed by
injection as nearly three dozen of his victims' relatives watched.
Gary Alan Walker, 46, was executed for the murder of his first victim. Eddie
Cash, a 63-year-old widower, had been beaten with a brick and strangled with a
vacuum cleaner cord.
Walker, 46, killed Cash on May 6, 1984. By the month's end, Walker had murdered
four other people.
Testimony in Walker's defense told of beatings as a child at the hands of his
stepfather and of an incestuous relationship with his mother.
Experts said Walker, a former mental patient, suffered a psychotic episode and
killed Cash while confusing him with his abusive stepfather. The jury rejected
the insanity defense.
AP-NY-01-13-00
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The following two news articles both appear courtesy of the 1/13/00 online
edition of The Tulsa World newspaper:
Serial killer Gary Walker executed
By LINDA MARTIN World Staff Writer
1/13/00
McALESTER -- Gary Alan Walker, whose 1984 killing spree left five victims'
families grappling with more than 15 years of grief and unrest, paid the
ultimate price with his own life shortly after midnight Thursday.
Walker was given lethal injections at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary for the
May 6, 1984, death of Eddie O. Cash, 63, of Broken Arrow.
The Cash family, consisting of two sons, their wives, one daughter and her
husband, and four grandsons and two of their wives watched through a large
window in a room adjacent to the execution chamber. The room seats only 12
people.
Family members of the other four victims' -- Tulsa newswoman Valerie
Shaw-Hartzell, 25; Margaret Bell Lydick, 37, of Poteau; Jane Hilburn, 35, of
Vinita; and Janet Jewell, 32, of Beggs -- watched on closed-circuit television
as Walker, strapped to a gurney, was given the injections.
Witnessing on Walker's behalf were a cousin who raised him and a sister,
according to Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson.
Walker was found guilty Nov. 14, 1984, of killing Cash by striking him several
times in the head with a brick before strangling him with a vacuum cleaner
cord. Cash had given Walker, who was hitchhiking, a ride to Owasso earlier in
the day while he was on his way to Collinsville. Walker later went to Cash's
Broken Arrow home with the intent of burglarizing it.
Walker's execution ends what has been a long and often halting road to justice
for the victims' family members.
Emilie Pearson, Shaw-Hartzell's mother, said before the execution that family
members had toured death row.
"You know. It didn't affect me," she said. "It was just a long hall with
nothing to see."
Pearson attended the execution with her husband, James, her daughter and her
husband, Valerie's uncle and the family's pastor.
Pearson said that as she got closer to McAlester on Wednesday she began getting
nervous that "surely nothing can happen now at this late date."
Edmondson apprised the victims' families of the legal status of Walker's case,
he said. He expected no last-minute appeals.
Asked about the mood among the other victims' family members as midnight grew
nearer, Pearson said: "I think everyone is glad it has finally gotten here.
It's taken too long."
She continued: "Everybody's hugging each other. We may not have met, but we
know what each other's gone through."
For herself, she said, she hopes the execution "will finally put an end to this
16-1/2 years of pain, grief and sadness. We'll never forget Valerie, and this
certainly won't bring her back."
Eileen Stephens, Shaw-Hartzell's cousin, defined the execution as "the end to
the ultimate battle of good and evil -- good triumphant over evil finally 15
years later."
"The death penalty is the ultimate protection for the-law abiding citizens of
our society from murderous and violent criminals," Stephens said.
She suggested that instead of protesting the death penalty, "we need to use our
energies to prevent child neglect and abuse and promote better mental health
care for all our citizens."
Cash's family members also expressed their feelings about death penalty
protesters.
Dorna Cash, the wife of Eddie Cash's grandson, Lewis Cash, said, "The
protesters of the Walker execution should be given the chance to be scared to
death and tortured and bought near to death by strangulation, then right before
death be allowed to live. Then see if they still feel the same way."
James Crane, another of Cash's grandsons, said, "I don't know if killing Walker
is right or wrong, justice or vengeance. All I know is that he will never kill
anyone ever again."
Tulsa County Sheriff Stanley Glanz, who also attended the execution, said
Walker "admitted to killing all five people on the Saturday evening he was
arrested."
He remembered a sleep-deprived Walker being almost relieved to talk about the
crimes, he said.
Glanz, chief detective for the Tulsa Police Department at the time, said that
on the day after Walker's arrest Walker led Glanz and other officers to
Shaw-Hartzell's and Jewell's bodies.
Aside from the death penalty, Walker ultimately received five life terms and
530 years in prison for other crimes committed in 1984.
The death sentence Walker received June 1, 1985, for the strangulation death of
Shaw-Hartzell was overturned on appeal. Walker pleaded guilty in a subsequent
retrial and received life without parole and 500 years for kidnapping.
But Edmondson said the death penalty is more than appropriate for this case.
The fact that 31 family members attended the execution "symbolizes the
devastation" Walker's killing spree brought to this state that cost the lives
of five people," he said.
Walker continues to pose a threat to society, Edmondson said, a fact that's
substantiated "through his own words and confessions."
Walker said during the retrial for Shaw-Hartzell's death that if he were free
he would kill again.
Shaw-Hartzell's sister, Vicki Chiavetta, said it's taken far too long for
justice to be served.
She said she didn't know if justice or Walker's death will "bring any peace to
my heart, but I hope it does."
Edmondson said that while the families of Walker's five murder victims have
endured a "15-year- search for justice," a 1995 change in the law to expedite
the appeals process will possibly cut the appeals time for new death penalty
cases to approximately seven years. However, it will have little to no affect
on cases filed prior to the change.
In the meantime, one of Oklahoma's three women on death row moves a step closer
to execution.
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals has denied Wanda Jean Allen's appeal,
according to the Attorney General's Office. Allen's only remaining avenue for
appeal is to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review her case.
If the Supreme Court declines to hear the case, Allen's execution could be
scheduled for late this year or early next year.
Allen, 40, killed her lover, Gloria Jean Leathers, after an argument on Dec. 1,
1988.
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals has also denied Floyd Allen Medlock's appeal.
Medlock murdered a 7-year-old Yukon girl in 1990. The U.S. Supreme Court is
Medlock's only remaining avenue for relief. If denied, he, too, could be
scheduled for execution late this year or early next year.
Meanwhile, Michael Donald Roberts, who murdered 80-year- old Lula Mae Brooks in
her Oklahoma City home in 1988, is scheduled to die Feb. 10.
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Finally finding some peace
By BARBARA HOBEROCK World Capitol Bureau
1/13/00
McALESTER -- Five-time killer Gary Alan Walker found peace in the days before
he was executed early Thursday, said his Oklahoma City attorney, Gloyd McCoy.
In a Dec. 28 interview, Walker said he was not a spiritual person but wished he
could believe in something.
Walker, 46, said last month that people try to use the Bible to justify
arguments that can go either way.
"The Bible says `Thou shalt not kill,' " Walker said. "It does not say `Thou
shalt not kill unless.' "
Walker's comments generated calls and letters to McAlester's Oklahoma State
Penitentiary, where he had been held for 15 years on death row.
"Gary received about 30 letters from people expressing the hope that he would
find inner peace and salvation," said McCoy, who last saw his client face to
face on Tuesday.
"It is my belief that their concerns were appreciated by him and that he has
made peace with the Almighty and that probably his statement about not having
spirituality is no longer true. I think he has found his salvation. He looks
forward to a better place.
"He wanted to express appreciation for those who wrote him directly and wrote
the warden on his behalf."
Walker was put to death for the 1984 slaying of Eddie Cash, 63, of Broken
Arrow. But he also confessed to killing four Oklahoma women.
Walker spent the last four years corresponding with a pen-pal from Holland,
Marie- Therese Gobbels.
"I know for sure that he does believe in something," Gobbels said. "It is one
of the things that has kept him going."
"I see Mr. Walker as someone who has managed to overcome the feelings of hatred
toward his past, the same feelings that caused him to commit the crimes he was
convicted of," Gobbels said. "I know that he deeply regrets having caused
others so much pain.
"I have learned that Mr. Walker is not the cold- blooded killer as some have
described him, but a human being who has feelings and who genuinely cares about
people. I believe that he, too, is a victim."
Outside the prison gates, people on both sides of the death penalty held
vigils.
Tulsan Anna Brandon showed up to support the victims. Brandon's son was killed
in Tulsa in 1988. It was her third time to show up outside the penitentiary
during an execution to show her support for victims.
She said she hoped Walker found peace, but she doubted that he would.
"In a way, this is all alike. It is all equally bad," said Tulsan Michael
Johns, a regular at the vigils. "It is not about the number of people he
killed. It is about what we as a state do in our name."
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