On this
date, October 26, 2010, a Prison escapee and repeat offender, Jeffrey Landrigan
was executed by lethal injection in Arizona. This is another perfect example of
letting a dangerous killer be kept alive.
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Fried okra
French fries
Strawberry shake
Dr. Pepper
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Summary: Chester
Dean Dryer was a 42 year old man who worked in a health club and was known to
pick up men and take them home. Dyer called friends to tell them he was having
sex with a man named Jeff. He was later found strangled by an electrical cord
and stabbed to death in his apartment. A deck of pornographic playing cards
were strewn over the bed. Landrigan's shoes matched a footprint left in sugar
in Dyer's apartment. He told police that he had beaten Dyer after Dyer made
sexual advances, but that another man had done the killing. Landrigan was
uncooperative and disruptive during his trial, and at sentencing told the Judge
"If you want to give me the death penalty, bring it on, I'm ready."
Landrigan was
abandoned by his parents as an infant. His birth father, whom he never met face
to face, died on death row in Arkansas. His grandfather was shot to death by
police while robbing a drugstore. In 1982, when he was 20, Landrigan lived in
Oklahoma and stabbed to death a childhood friend. He was found guilty of
first-degree murder and sentenced to life, but the conviction was overturned on
appeal and Landrigan entered a plea agreement to second-degree murder and a
20-year prison term. In 1989, Landrigan escaped from a minimum security work
crew and headed for Arizona.
ProDeathPenalty.Com
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Jeffrey Timothy Landrigan, aka Billy Patrick Wayne Hill, was convicted of first
degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment for the fatal stabbing of his
best friend, Greg Brown, after they and some friends had smoked marijuana and
drank whiskey at a trailer park in Dewey, Oklahoma, on August 24, 1982.
According to
testimony presented at trial, Landrigan, accompanied by his wife and son,
arrived at the trailer home of Gordon Aiken at about 8 p.m. that evening. Soon
after they arrived, Landrigan, his family and Aiken went to purchase a fifth of
whiskey. On their way back to the trailer park, the group picked up Landrigan's
brother-in-law, Robert Martinez. When they returned to the trailer, Landrigan,
Greg Brown, David Detjan and Donna Favier began drinking whiskey and smoking
marijuana cigarettes. Landrigan and Greg Brown began calling one another a
"punk," and began arguing whether Landrigan could beat the victim in
a fight. As Landrigan started to leave, Greg Brown pushed him against the
trailer wall, and told Landrigan, "if you want to settle the argument, we
can take it outside." Brown went outside, followed by Landrigan.
According to Aiken's
testimony, Landrigan was holding a knife behind his back. Aiken testified he
rushed to a bedroom to find his rifle. In the meantime, however, Landrigan
lunged at Brown and stabbed him in the chest. Aiken returned to the living room
with the rifle. Detjan took the rifle, pointed it at Landrigan and told him to
"back up or I'm going to blow your head off." Landrigan escaped
between two cars as his victim collapsed on the ground. Landrigan ran to the
machine shop of Alvin Burns and told Burns that he had "wasted a
guy." He later told Washington County Undersheriff Jim Eppler, "Jim,
I tried to kill the m____ f____. I don't take that shit off nobody. I cut him
twice. I think I cut him twice." Landrigan testified on his own behalf
that as the men continued to drink, he could see that what began as friendly
teasing was now making the victim angry. Landrigan testified that, as he was
leaving, the victim grabbed him by the throat and threatened to "whip my
ass." Landrigan said the men went outside. He also testified that he
attempted to go back into the trailer, but someone inside pointed the shotgun
in his direction. Landrigan jumped at Brown, but did not know he had a knife in
his hand when he hit the victim. However, Brown did have a knife as he
approached Landrigan, according to Landrigan's testimony.
In 1986, while in
custody for Greg Brown's murder, Landrigan repeatedly stabbed another inmate
and was subsequently convicted of assault and battery with a deadly weapon.
Three years later, Landrigan escaped from prison and murdered Chester Dean Dyer
in Arizona.
An Arizona jury found
Landrigan guilty of theft, second-degree burglary, and felony murder for having
caused the victim’s death in the course of a burglary. At sentencing,
Landrigan's counsel attempted to present the testimony of Landrigan's ex-wife
and birth mother as mitigating evidence. But at Landrigan's request, both women
refused to testify. When the trial judge asked why the witnesses refused,
Landrigan's counsel responded that "it's at my client's wishes." When
counsel tried to explain that Landrigan had worked in a legitimate job to
provide for his family, Landrigan interrupted and stated "if I wanted this
to be heard, I'd have my wife say it." When counsel characterized
Landrigan's first murder as having elements of self-defense, Landrigan
interrupted and clarified: "He didn't grab me. I stabbed him."
Responding to counsel's statement implying that the prison stabbing involved
self-defense because the assaulted inmate knew Landrigan's first murder victim,
Landrigan interrupted to clarify that the inmate was not acquainted with his
first victim, but just "a guy I got in an argument with. I stabbed him 14
times. It was lucky he lived." At the conclusion of the sentencing
hearing, the judge asked Landrigan if he had anything to say. Landrigan made a
brief statement that concluded, "I think if you want to give me the death
penalty, just bring it right on. I'm ready for it." In later appeals,
Landrigan alleged that his lawyers had failed to explore mitigation evidence.
I think the whole Landrigan gene pool needs wiped out (LOW-KEY).
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