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Saturday, June 8, 2013

PRISON GUARD KILLER: WILLIAM G. ZUERN, JR. (EXECUTED IN OHIO ON JUNE 8, 2004)



            On this date, June 8, 2004, a Prison killer, William G. Zuern, Jr. was executed by lethal injection in Ohio for the June 9, 1984 murder of Philip Pence, a Hamilton County Sheriff’s Deputy. He was such a dangerous person to be kept alive, he can even murder people behind bars. I got the information from clarkprosecutor.org. I would like to rebut the protestor, Tina Bush’s ideas.


William G. Zuern

Inmate #: 181416
Inmate: William G. Zuern
Race: White
Gender: Male
DOB: 12/5/58
County of Conviction: Hamilton
Received at DOC: 10/05/84
Offenses: COERCION. AGGRAVATED MURDER, AGGRAVATED MURDER 


William G. Zuern, 45, was convicted of killing a Hamilton County sheriff's jail officer in 1984. Zuern was found guilty of aggravated murder for stabbing officer Phillip Pence in the chest on June 9, 1984, with a dagger-like piece of metal. 

In July of 2003, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a lower court ruling in favor of Zuern, which could have provided a new trial for him. Hamilton County sheriff's officers said they received a tip from another prisoner that Zuern had a homemade knife in his cell and that he had threatened to kill a prisoner. When officers arrived to search for the weapon, Zuern, who had been told they were coming, stabbed Pence, officers said. Prosecutors said he had prior intent to kill the officer. A prisoner who testified as a prosecution witness said that several weeks before the stabbing, he saw Zuern sharpening part of a metal bucket hook and heard Zuern express hostility toward jail officers for not allowing him a full five minutes of telephone time. 

UPDATE: For nearly 20 years, a former jailhouse officer has carried a copy of the death warrant for the man convicted of murdering one of his best friends, hoping to one day witness the man's execution. "That would be kind of a cathartic way of closing the book on this," Gary Roush said Monday. The Ohio Supreme Court has set a June 8 execution date for William G. Zuern, 45, who killed jailer Phillip Pence with a homemade knife on June 9, 1984. A federal judge has put the execution on hold. While an appeals court considers whether to let the state proceed, the Ohio Parole Board holds a hearing Tuesday in Columbus to determine whether to recommend that Gov. Bob Taft grant clemency. "I was at several days of the trial, including the death penalty phase, and what Zuern said has stuck in my head for 20 years," Roush said. "He said, 'I have no desire to beg or plead; do with me what you will.' "He waived all mitigating factors. It was kind of like a spit in the eye. I'd tell the parole board, why not fulfill his wishes?" Roush plans to attend Zuern's execution, if the appeals court allows it to go forward. "Our policy is family members have the first option," said Andrea Dean, spokeswoman for the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. "If they choose not to attend, they can name a friend or someone who has something to do with the case." 

Roush was a 22-year-old jailer at the Community Correctional Institution, a Civil War-era prison known as "the Workhouse," when Zuern killed Pence. Roush, Pence and two other jailers, acting on a tip, had gone to "A" block to inspect two cells for weapons just after the 10 p.m. lockdown. They found Zuern standing in his cell, naked, Roush said. When the cell door swung open, Zuern lunged at Pence. "I was only about 6 feet away from him when he was killed," Roush said. "I saw everything."
Prosecutors got a quick conviction, and Roush was not asked to testify at Zuern's trial. He left the Hamilton County sheriff's department in 1990 to work in the suburban Miami Township police department in Clermont County, east of Cincinnati. Pence's only local relative, half sister Sherry Behler, said she would not attend the clemency hearing because her husband was scheduled for medical tests. She said Roush would read her letter to the parole board. "I understand there are people in jail who are innocent," Behler said. "With DNA testing and all they have now, those people often go free. I feel with him, with all those eyewitnesses, the appeals shouldn't have gone on so long." Behler said she would make it to Zuern's execution, if that occurs. "His first execution date was Feb. 5, 1985," she said. "He should have gone ahead and taken his punishment at that time." 

Court records show that Zuern fashioned a dagger-like knife, known as a shank, out of a bucket hook and used it to stab Pence in the chest. Another jailer slammed the cell door shut, locking Zuern inside, as deputies helped Pence to a picnic table where inmates played cards. "All we saw at first was a little bitty spot of blood on his T-shirt. I said, 'Damn, Phil, you got stuck,'" Roush said. "He turned ash gray and his knees buckled." Roush learned later that the shank had pierced three holes in Pence's heart. Zuern was convicted of aggravated murder and sentenced to death for killing Pence. But he also is serving a life prison term for his guilty plea to fatally shooting a Cincinnati man, Gregory Earls, 24. Zuern was awaiting trial for the shooting when he stabbed Pence, a month after shooting Earls. Defense attorney Kate McGarry has declined to say if Zuern has any living relatives, or what attorneys would present at the clemency hearing. In past appeals, the defense has argued that prosecutors failed to turn over a memo that would have indicated that Zuern wanted to kill a fellow prisoner, rather than a jailer. They contend that would have showed the lack of premeditation needed for a capital conviction. 

REBUTTAL TO TINA BUSH:
Outside the prison, death penalty opponents gathered and prayed. They set up signs of protest and drawings and photographs of previously executed Ohioans. Tina Bush, a member of the Cleveland Coalition Against the Death Penalty, has been active protesting capital punishment since 1999, when Ohio reinstated its death penalty. "We are against the execution of any people. I do not believe that because a person takes a life that the state should take another life. Two wrongs do not make a right, and all killing is wrong," she said. Bush said her opposition to state-sanctioned killing is not meant as any lack of sympathy for victims. "Phillip Pence should not have died at William Zuern's hand. William Zuern should not die at the state's hand," her hand-made sign read.

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Rebuttal: Were you praying for the murdered victims and their families when their loved ones were murdered? Rather than disgracing yourselves by showing photos of previous executed Ohioans, show photos of the innocent unborn babies and photos of murdered victims. 

I wonder if they would bother doing that at the embassies of the following countries for these criminals:

Indian Embassy for Ajmal Kasab



People hold a placard and pictures of Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, as they celebrate in Ahmedabad November 21, 2012.
REUTERS/Amit Dave  
Indonesian Embassy for Amrozi?

Iran Embassy for The Black Vultures?

Japanese Embassy for their violent criminals?

United Arab Emirates Embassy for Al Rashidi?

Will they cry for the Eight Executed Terrorists?

Will they moan and groan for Nazi War Criminals?



Nazi War Criminals at the Nuremberg Trials.
<< "We are against the execution of any people. I do not believe that because a person takes a life that the state should take another life. Two wrongs do not make a right, and all killing is wrong," she said. Bush said her opposition to state-sanctioned killing is not meant as any lack of sympathy for victims. "Phillip Pence should not have died at William Zuern's hand. William Zuern should not die at the state's hand," her hand-made sign read.>>

Rebuttal: All killing is wrong? It is better to tell that those abortionists (who kill the innocent unborn babies) and those criminal rights activists who let the murderers go free to kill. You need to teach that killing is wrong to murderers and not to the State who is protecting its people. Are you going to tell the Seal Team Six members that it was wrong to assassinate Osama Bin Laden? Are you telling our soldiers not to fire at enemy soldiers if America was invaded?

            If you truly have sympathy for victims, please hear what the late President Ronald Reagan said.


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