JOHN HUMMEL EXECUTED IN TEXAS ON JUNE 30, 2021

            On this date, June 30, 2021, John William Hummels was executed by lethal injection in Texas, for the December 2009 killing of his pregnant wife, 5-year-old daughter and father-in-law.

   

This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows John Hummel. Hummel, convicted of capital murder in the deaths of his wife and father-in-law, is set to be executed on Wednesday, June 30, 2021, at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. Hummel's attorney did not plan to file any last-minute appeals. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)

Texas inmate executed for killing wife, father-in-law

By JUAN A. LOZANO and MICHAEL GRACZYKtoday

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas inmate was executed Wednesday evening for an attack that killed his pregnant wife, 5-year-old daughter and father-in-law more than a decade ago.

John Hummel received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the December 2009 killings.

Authorities say Hummel stabbed his wife, Joy Hummel, more than 30 times, then used a baseball bat to beat to death his daughter, Jodi Hummel, and his 57-year-old father-in-law, Clyde Bedford, who used a wheelchair. He then set their home on fire in Kennedale, a Fort Worth suburb.

Hummel, strapped to the death chamber gurney, said a brief prayer that ended with him saying he would “be with Jesus when I wake.”

“I truly regret killing my family,” he said, then thanked friends for their prayers and support.

“I love each and every one of you,” he added.

As the lethal dose of the sedative pentobarbital began to take effect, he took a half-dozen breaths, then began snoring quietly. About a minute later, all movement stopped, although his eyes didn’t completely close. He was pronounced dead at 6:49 p.m. CDT, 13 minutes later.

“It was too easy,” Cecil Bedford, whose brother was among those killed, said after watching Hummel die. “It was like going to sleep.” He said a punishment more severe would be more appropriate. “A rope, a guillotine, a firing squad. There’s all kinds of good stuff to kill people. They should get what they deserve. An eye for an eye. I’m sorry. I’m old school.”

Prosecutors say he killed his family because he wanted to run off with a woman he met at a convenience store. After the fire, Hummel fled to Oceanside, California, near San Diego, but was later arrested. Investigators say he confessed to the killings.

Hummel, 45, who had worked as a hospital security guard, was convicted of capital murder for the deaths of his 34-year-old wife and father-in-law. He was not tried for his daughter’s death.

   

Killer John William Hummel and Victims, Jodi and Joy.

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His attorney, Michael Mowla, did not file any last-minute appeals before his execution, saying all available legal avenues had been exhausted.

Appeals courts rejected Mowla’s attempts to stop his execution because Hummel had not been properly assessed on whether he would be a future danger — a question Texas juries must answer in death penalty cases. Mowla also unsuccessfully argued the appearance of impropriety as Hummel’s trial lawyer now works for the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office, which convicted him.

Hummel had been scheduled to be executed on March 18, 2020, but it was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Bedford’s sister, Cylinda Bedford, said her family still doesn’t understand why Hummel killed his family. She described Joy Hummel, who worked as a massage therapist, as outgoing and bubbly. Jodi had been excited about starting school and Clyde Bedford, who was better known by his nickname Eddie, “loved that grand baby,” Cylinda Bedford said.

“Come on, your own baby. You gotta be some kind of monster,” Cylinda Bedford, 54, a retired body shop technician, said of Hummel. “I don’t have no closure. And him being put to death, is not going to be closure either because then we’ll never know why.”

Hummel’s attorney also argued that his client suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and other issues related to his military service that caused him to “snap” one night.

But Miles Brissette, a prosecutor at Hummel’s trial, said authorities discovered Hummel had previously tried to kill his family by putting rat poison in a spaghetti dinner.

On the night of the killings, Hummel stood in his kitchen for 30 minutes so he could “psych himself up” for what he was about to do, and after killing his wife, he caught his breath before fatally beating the others, Brissette said.

“This guy senselessly took the life of a beautiful mother, a beautiful child and a grandfather that just did everything for them. For him to want to be single and just kill them this way is senseless,” said Brissette, who is now a defense attorney in Fort Worth.

Hummel was the second inmate executed this year in Texas and the fifth in the U.S. Last month, Texas resumed executions after nearly a year. But it didn’t go as planned: The execution was performed without media witnesses. An investigation blamed the mistake on several factors, including new personnel and procedures, along with insufficient oversight.

Media witnesses Wednesday evening were escorted to the death chamber without incident, although the punishment was delayed briefly as prison technicians had some difficulty inserting the needles into Hummel’s arms, agency spokesman Jeremy Desel said.

Cylinda Bedford said nothing will make up for the loss her family still feels at Christmas or on birthdays. And a piece of her history was lost when Hummel burned down the family home where her father was born and raised and where her parents raised their children. Her family sold the land where the home stood but nothing new has been built there.

“It’s still an empty lot,” Bedford said.

Lozano reported from Houston.

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Executing a murderer is the only way to adequately express our horror at the taking of an innocent life. Nothing else suffices. To equate the lives of killers with those of victims is the worst kind of moral equivalency. If capital punishment is state murder, then imprisonment is state kidnapping and restitution is state theft. – Don Feder

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http://soldierexecutionerprolifer2008.blogspot.com/2013/04/mcveigh-puts-capital-punishment-in.html

OTHER LINKS:

https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/death_row/dr_info/hummeljohn.html

See also

• List of offenders executed in the United States in 2021
• List of people executed in Texas, 2020–present

THE PEELIAN PRINCIPLES

           

Robert Peel - Project Gutenberg etext 13103 From The Project Gutenberg eBook, Great Britain and Her Queen, by Anne E. Keeling

            The Metropolitan Police Act 1829 (10 Geo.4, c.44) was an Act of Parliament introduced by Sir Robert Peel. The Act established the Metropolitan Police of London (with the exception of the City), replacing the previously disorganized system of parish constables and watchmen. The Act was the enabling legislation for what is often considered to be the first modern police force, the "bobbies" or "peelers" (after Peel), which served as the model for modern urban police departments throughout Britain. Until the 1829 Act, the Statute of Winchester of 1285 was cited as the primary legislation regulating the policing of the country since the Norman Conquest.

It is one of the Metropolitan Police Acts 1829 to 1895.

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence. - Robert Peel

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I will present the Nine Peelian Principles and quotes from Sir Robert Peel:

 

Nine principles were set out in the "General Instructions" issued to every new police officer in the Metropolitan Police from 1829. Although Peel discussed the spirit of some of these principles in his speeches and other communications, the historians Susan Lentz and Robert Chaires found no proof that he compiled a formal list. The Home Office has suggested that the instructions were probably written, not by Peel himself, but by Charles Rowan and Richard Mayne, the joint Commissioners of the Metropolitan Police when it was founded.

The nine principles were as follows:

1.     To prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by military force and severity of legal punishment.

2.     To recognise always that the power of the police to fulfill their functions and duties is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behaviour, and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect.

3.     To recognise always that to secure and maintain the respect and approval of the public means also the securing of the willing co-operation of the public in the task of securing observance of laws.

4.     To recognise always that the extent to which the co-operation of the public can be secured diminishes proportionately the necessity of the use of physical force and compulsion for achieving police objectives.

5.     To seek and preserve public favour, not by pandering to public opinion, but by constantly demonstrating absolutely impartial service to law, in complete independence of policy, and without regard to the justice or injustice of the substance of individual laws, by ready offering of individual service and friendship to all members of the public without regard to their wealth or social standing, by ready exercise of courtesy and friendly good humour, and by ready offering of individual sacrifice in protecting and preserving life.

6.     To use physical force only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and warning is found to be insufficient to obtain public co-operation to an extent necessary to secure observance of law or to restore order, and to use only the minimum degree of physical force which is necessary on any particular occasion for achieving a police objective.

7.     To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

8.     To recognise always the need for strict adherence to police-executive functions, and to refrain from even seeming to usurp the powers of the judiciary of avenging individuals or the State, and of authoritatively judging guilt and punishing the guilty.

9.     To recognise always that the test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, and not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with them.

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OTHER LINKS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles

https://citizenpolicing.com/2015/01/14/sir-robert-peels-nine-principles-of-policing/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Peel

SELF-STYLED SATANIST JAIME OSUNA BEHEADED HIS CELLMATE

            A self-styled Satanist, Jaime Osuna had beheaded his cellmate, Luis Romero in March 9, 2019. Another good reason why murderers will kill behind bars. Keep in mind, Osuna was serving a life sentence for the killing and torture of Yvette Pena, 37, at a Bakersfield motel in 2011. With face tattoos and flair for Charles Manson-like satanic antics, he became a dark figure during the 2017 trial, mocking the victim’s family and bragging to a television news reporter of his love of torturing people.

            I suspect that even Prisoner Rights Activists will be too shock to talk about this case. Hopefully, he will get the death penalty like other Prison Killers.

   

Osuna is just 31 years old.  He’ll kill again if he gets the chance!

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Self-styled satanist beheaded his cellmate in Central Valley prison, but guards didn’t notice, state reports say

by: Associated Press

Posted: May 27, 2021 / 08:32 AM PDT / Updated: May 28, 2021 / 10:38 AM PDT

Shortly after the sadistic torture slaying and beheading of a convicted killer in a California prison, apparently at the hands of his cellmate, prison guards making their rounds reported that both men were alive, according to two new reports from the state inspector’s general office.

The reports on California lockups raise new questions about the heinous attack at Corcoran State Prison in March 2019 that has prompted investigations and a lawsuit by the family of the victim, Luis Romero, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday.

Jaime Osuna, 31, is accused of using a makeshift knife to decapitate and dissect Romero, removing an eye, a finger and a portion of the man’s lung, state documents show.

One of the reports faults the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for conducting a shoddy investigation and delaying disciplinary action against the guards.

Why the officers did not discover the grisly scene earlier is not detailed in the reports, the Times said. But a lawsuit by Romero’s family says the bars were covered by a white sheet, suggesting the guards failed to make a thorough check of the cell.

The Department of Corrections disputed the findings of the reports, saying in a statement it had conducted a “thorough and complete investigation from the very beginning.”

The family’s lawsuit also questions why Romero was in a cell with Osuna, a convicted killer and “self-styled satanist” with a history of attacking his cellmates, according to the newspaper.

“The idea that my client had to sue in order to get basic questions answered about her son’s death is disheartening,” said Justin Sterling, the attorney for Romero’s mother.

The guards were meant to check the cell every so often, Sterling told the Times, and the crime would have taken hours to commit. If the guards had been doing their required checks, Romero would be alive today, he said.

Romero, who had spent 27 years in prison, was put in the cell with Osuna after arriving from Mule Creek State Prison, according to the lawsuit. He was convicted of second-degree murder after fatally shooting a woman in Compton when he was a teenager and associating with gang members. He was nearing parole eligibility.

His new cellmate, Osuna, was serving a life sentence for the killing and torture of Yvette Pena, 37, at a Bakersfield motel in 2011. With face tattoos and flair for Charles Manson-like satanic antics, he became a dark figure during the 2017 trial, mocking the victim’s family and bragging to a television news reporter of his love of torturing people.

Sometime in the early hours of March 9, 2019, Osuna methodically tortured and killed Romero, authorities said.

Using a razor-style blade attached to a handle, Osuna ultimately cut Romero’s head. He also posed the body, slicing Romero’s face open on either side of his mouth to resemble an extended smile, according to an autopsy.

Guards found Osuna wearing a necklace made of Romero’s body parts, the Times said.

Kings County Executive Assistant Dist. Atty. Phil Esbenshade called it the most heinous slaying he had ever seen. “We do believe that the victim was conscious during at least a portion of the time,” he said.

Osuna has been transferred to Salinas Valley State Prison’s psychiatric inpatient program. He has been diagnosed with unspecified schizophrenia spectrum, antisocial personality disorder and borderline personality disorder, according to the newspaper.

A judge has ruled that Osuna is not competent to stand trial for Romero’s death.

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https://www.facebook.com/LifesparkJustice/posts/2934227216897634

https://ktla.com/news/california/self-styled-satanist-beheaded-his-cellmate-in-central-california-prison-but-guards-didnt-notice-reports-say/

    

When liberals argue against the Death Penalty, are they worried that a lying witness ~ might ~ condemn a man to death, – are they trying to be “Christian” and make themselves feel good, or are they totally ignoring the true evil which lives in some men?

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California killer accused of beheading, torturing cellmate

By DON THOMPSON April 27, 2019

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — One convicted killer has been accused of beheading another in what authorities call an exceptionally sadistic torture slaying at a California prison.

Corcoran State Prison inmate Jaime Osuna removed several body parts from his cellmate, Luis Romero, Assistant Kings County District Attorney Phil Esbenshade said Friday. Charges accuse Osuna, 31, of repeatedly cutting Romero last month using what the prosecutor called a sharp metal object wrapped in string and attached to a handle.

It’s not clear how much happened while Romero, 44, was still alive or whether anyone heard the overnight assault, but “we do believe that the victim was conscious during at least a portion of the time,” Esbenshade said in an email. “This is the most gruesome case that I have seen in terms of heinousness in the slaying.”

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is conducting an internal investigation, spokeswoman Terry Thornton said. Officials wouldn’t provide more details on how prisoners are overseen overnight.

Osuna pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges at his first court appearance Thursday. They include several special circumstances that could bring the death penalty, including that the slaying “was especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel, manifesting exceptional depravity.”

Defense attorney Melina Benninghoff was appointed to represent him but was home sick Friday and did not respond to telephone and email requests to comment on his behalf.

Osuna also is charged with torture, mayhem and weapons possession. The torture charge alleges that he acted “with the intent to cause cruel and extreme pain and suffering for the purpose of revenge, extortion, persuasion and for a sadistic purpose.”

The state corrections department said guards found Romero dead in his cell about 7:30 a.m. March 9 at the prison, which houses more than 3,300 inmates about 220 miles (354 kilometers) south of Sacramento.

Romero bled to death from “multiple sharp force trauma injuries,” and his body was mutilated, according to an autopsy report released Friday.

Osuna was sentenced to life without parole after pleading guilty in 2017 to killing Yvette Pena, 37, at a Bakersfield motel in 2011, according to media reports at the time.

Romero also was serving a life term for a Los Angeles County slaying, but with the possibility of parole.

Osuna has been transferred to a Stockton prison for inmates needing medical or mental health care, though officials wouldn’t say why, citing privacy laws.

INTERNET SOURCE: https://apnews.com/article/california-694230bcd84f43cabe913b7a04cccd8c

   

   

Jaime Osuna is seen during his sentencing for murder in Bakersfield, Calif., in May 2017. New inspector general reports suggest officers didn't realize Osuna had allegedly killed his cellmate during a check in March 2019

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Murderer mocks victim's family as he's sentenced to life without parole

• BY JASON KOTOWSKI jkotowski@bakersfield.com
• May 14, 2017 Updated Apr 26, 2019
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For the family of Yvette Pena, Monday's court hearing was an opportunity to speak about the enduring loss they feel in connection with Pena's brutal slaying in 2011.

For Jaime Osuna, the man who tortured and killed Pena, it was one last chance to mock the family. He rolled his eyes and smirked as Pena's relatives addressed the court.

Osuna, 29, gave a thumbs-up sign as Judge John S. Somers sentenced him to life without parole. And he waved at Pena's relatives before deputies took him away.

Danielle Gonzales, Pena's younger sister, told the court there's no such thing as closure when someone you love dies in "such a tragic way." The pain she feels is the same as it was when she was first notified of the killing, she said.

"Five years, six months and two days later the hurt is still just as bad as the night I got that knock on my door," Gonzales said. 

Osuna pleaded guilty in March to five charges including first-degree murder. 

Pena's body was found Nov. 13, 2011, at the El Morocco Motel. Osuna was arrested five days later after officers surrounded an apartment he was staying at in the 400 block of Real Road.

Coroner's officials ruled Pena died of blunt force injuries, sharp-force injuries and asphyxia. Prosecutor Nicholas Lackie declined to go into the details of what he described as "truly horrific" injuries inflicted upon the victim.

Lackie said Osuna's behavior Monday was much the same at each earlier court hearing. He said Osuna appeared amused by the process and acted as if he enjoyed the attention.

"It's truly reprehensible," Lackie said.

The heavily tattooed Osuna, who goes by the nickname "Lokito," admitted in an interview with KBAK Channel 29 he was one of the last people with Pena, but denied killing her. He said the motel room was used for prostitution and to get high on methamphetamine.

Osuna claimed he knew the names of the other people who were with him and Pena the day she died, and would give those names in court. He never did, and Lackie said there is no information to take action regarding his allegations.

While rehabilitation is one of the purposes of prison, Osuna indicated he will not change. 

Gonzales, during her comments to the court, said Osuna has smiled during the 12 court hearings she attended in the case. She said she hoped one day he would feel remorse.

Osuna immediately shook his head and repeatedly mouthed, "No."

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Notorious killer Jaime Osuna pleads not guilty to murder in cellmate's grisly slaying

Apr 26, 2019

CBS47 KSEE24

HANFORD, Calif. (KGET) -- Notorious Kern County killer Jaime Osuna pleaded not guilty Thursday to murder and other counts filed against him in the grisly slaying of his cellmate. Prosecutors confirmed that Osuna's cellmate, Luis Romero, was decapitated and suffered other dismemberment. His body was found March 9 in the cell he shared with Osuna at Corcoran State Prison. Osuna, 31, faces the death penalty in connection with the killing, described in documents as "especially heinous, atrocious, cruel, manifesting exceptional depravity." Romero, 44, had been convicted of second-degree murder in Los Angeles in 1993. Osuna is already serving a sentence of life without parole for the murder of Yvette Pena, a woman he called an acquaintance, in 2011. Pena's murder was also committed with torture, according to investigators.

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OTHER LINKS:

https://rabidrepublicanblog.com/a-classic-case-for-the-death-penalty/

https://soldierexecutionerprolifer2008.blogspot.com/2013/05/prison-killer-juvenile-gangster-rogelio.html

Here are some Killers on Ohio death row who had murdered their inmates, they may kill a Corrections Officer too:

1. August A. Cassano - Ohio Death Row Summary of Offense: On October 21, 1997, Cassano murdered his cellmate, 22-year-old Walter Hardy, at Mansfield Correctional Institution. Cassano stabbed Hardy 75 times with a homemade knife. Cassano was serving a life sentence for an aggravated murder in 1976 and had previously stabbed another cellmate in 1992, according to the corrections department. http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/showthread.php?3021-August-A-Cassano-Ohio-Death-Row

2 to 7. Keith LaMar - Ohio Execution - November 16, 2023 Summary of Offense: During the riot at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (Lucasville), LaMar murdered five prison inmates, Darrell Depina, Bruce Vitale, William Svette, Dennis Weaver and Albert Staiano, whom LaMar believed were snitches. When prison inmates held prison guards and other inmates hostage, LaMar formed a group of prison inmates, called the "Death Squad," to kill snitches. Between April 11, 1993 and April 21, 1993, on five separate occasions, Lamar and his followers beat, strangled and stabbed each victim to death. At the time, LaMar was serving a sentence for a 1989 murder conviction. LaMar received the death sentence for the aggravated murders of Mr. Depina, Mr. Vitale, Mr. Svette and Mr. Weaver. Also sentenced to death for murders committed during the riot were Jason Robb, Carlos Sanders, George Skatzes and James Were. http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/showthread.php?3085-Keith-LaMar-Ohio-Execution-November-16-2023

8. James Galen Hanna - Ohio Execution - May 18, 2022 Summary of Offense: On August 22, 1997, Hanna attacked his 43-year-old cellmate, Peter Copas, at the Lebanon Correctional Institution. Hanna thrust a sharpened paintbrush into Mr. Copas' eye and hit him in the head with a padlock placed in a sock. Mr. Copas died as a result of his injuries on September 10, 1997. http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/showthread.php?3053-James-Galen-Hanna-Ohio-Execution-May-18-2022

9. On this date, May 18, 2020, Joel Drain was sentenced to death for the murder of his inmate, Christopher Richardson in 2019. Drain was already serving a life sentence where Court records indicate that he strangled Randy Grose, 56, while stabbing him numerous times in the head and stomach. Another good reason why murderers will kill behind bars.

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