On
this date, July 17, 2002, a Cop Killer, Tracy Alan Hansen was executed by lethal
injection in Mississippi. He was convicted of shooting Trooper David Bruce
Ladner on April 10, 1987, the trooper died 2 days later on April 12, 1987. I will
post the information about him from clarkprosecutor.org
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Tracy Alan Hansen
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INTERNET SOURCE: http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/hansen785.htm
Summary: On Friday, April 10, 1987, Mississippi
Highway Patrol Officer David Bruce Ladner, was patrolling on Interstate 10,
when he pulled over a Lincoln driven erratically and speeding. Hansen was driving
the Lincoln and his girlfriend, Anita Louise Krecic was also in the vehicle.
During the stop, Trooper Ladner asked for permission to search, and both Hansen
and Krecic consented, giving fictitious names. In the process, Ladner took the
keys to the Continental and placed them in his pocket. It is unclear exactly
what happened next, but, at some point, Hansen drew a .38 caliber pistol and
shot at Trooper Ladner. To avoid the fire, Ladner ran around the car and
dropped to the ground, in an apparent attempt to roll underneath. Hansen
managed to get off two shots at close range, each striking Ladner in the back.
Still, Ladner managed to get up and make it to the median strip, where a
passing motorist took him to the hospital. He died two days later. Hansen had
10 prior felony convictions and had served time in Florida. Krecic was also
convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Final Meal:
Broiled
lobster, shrimp, scallops and crab meat served with clarified butter and
cocktail sauce, fried fish fillet and oysters with tartar sauce, a Pepsi and
chocolate morsels.
Final Words:
Hansen
gave a rambling speech and prison officials finally removed the microphone,
beginning the lethal injection process even as he continued speaking. "I
don't mind dying if it gives you closure. I'm guilty. I shot the guy. I
panicked. I was running from the law. I shouldn't have had a gun. I didn't want
to kill him. I'm sorry, but I know sorry doesn't mean much to some
people."
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Tracy Alan Hansen
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Cop
killer Tracy Alan Hansen is scheduled to be put to death July 17, which would
make him the 1st inmate executed in the state since 1989. On Monday, the state
Supreme Court set the execution date. The date was set one week after the U.S.
Supreme Court denied Hansen's appeal. "No legal impediment exists to deter
the resetting of an execution date," the state's highest court said in its
order Monday, signed by Justice George C. Carlson Jr. Hansen has exhausted his
court appeals, said Assistant Attorney General Marvin 'Sonny' White, who
handles capital murder appeals for the state. The chances of Hansen's execution
being carried out July 17 are "highly likely now," White said. The
execution is set for 6 p.m., Department of Corrections spokeswoman Jennifer
Griffin said. Previous executions in the state occurred after midnight. After
the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Hansen's appeal, the state attorney general's
office requested an execution date from the state Supreme Court.
Hansen
is sentenced to die for the April 10, 1987, shooting death of Mississippi
Highway Patrolman Bruce Ladner. Ladner died from gunshot wounds in the neck and
back after he pulled over Hansen's car on April 10, 1987, for speeding in
Harrison County. The American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi has said
Hansen shouldn't be executed because he was represented by an unqualified and
unprepared lawyer. Hansen would become the 1st person in the state to die by
lethal injection. On July 1, 1998, state law made lethal injection the form of
execution for death row inmates. Hansen has been on Mississippi's death row for
almost 15 years for the April 10, 1987, shooting death of Mississippi Highway
Safety Patrol Officer Bruce Ladner. Mississippi's last execution was in 1989,
when Leo Edwards, 36, was put to death in the gas chamber for killing a
convenience store clerk during a robbery in Jackson.
Brandon
Ladner, who lost his father when he was 11 years old, hopes justice is near.
"We have been told so many times that it would be this year, then the next
year but it would drag on," said Ladner, 26, a deputy with the Harrison
County Sheriff's Department. "Our family is all pro-death penalty, of
course, and we are excited that there may be closure." Brandon Ladner said
the family has been afraid Hansen would escape before he was ever executed.
Family members were told Hansen had planned to escape from Unit 32 at the State
Penitentiary on May 28, 2000, with Roy Harper and John Woolard. Harper and
Woolard got away but were later recaptured. Hansen never escaped. Ladner was
killed after he pulled over Hansen and his ex-girlfriend Anita Krecic during a
routine traffic stop on I-10 in Harrison County. Hansen and Krecic were wanted
in connection with a robbery in Florida. After Hansen shot Ladner, he and
Krecic stole the officer's gun and left the scene in Ladner's patrol car. They
were captured a short time later in Hancock County. Both were convicted of
murder in Harrison County, but Krecic did not receive the death penalty and
remains in prison. Hansen had an appeal denied by the 5th U.S. Court of Appeals
in New Orleans in November 2001. At the time, Hansen claimed he was denied
effective legal assistance during the penalty phase of his case and had key
testimony in his defense excluded.
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