Child Rapist-Killer Publicly Executed by Shan Ethnic Armed Group

     

Convicted child rapist-murderer Phyo Htet Aung is escorted to court on March 23, 2018. Photo: Mon State News

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            The above quote is accurate. The Shan State Progress Party (SSPP) has publicly executed a man for raping and killing a six-year-old girl. While I do not endorse their political party at all, I feel that that paedophile should be executed and it was done in a swift and sure manner.

The paedophile does not deserve to live. And Clint Eastwood is absolutely right when he said:

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society. – Clint Eastwood 

  

Child Rapist-Killer Publicly Executed by Shan Ethnic Armed Group

Yangon — The Shan State Progress Party (SSPP) has publicly executed a man for raping and killing a six-year-old girl.

24 December 2020Nan Lwin Hnin Pwint

Burma

Child Rapist-Killer Publicly Executed by Shan Ethnic Armed Group

Shan State Progress Party members. / SSPP

Yangon — The Shan State Progress Party (SSPP) has publicly executed a man for raping and killing a six-year-old girl.

The SSPP is one of at least 21 ethnicity-based armed groups in Myanmar fighting for equality and self-determination. The armed group is still in the process of negotiating with the central government to sign the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA).

Ethnic groups control governance and judicial processes in their territories.

“He confessed and there was evidence against him. We delivered the verdict at the trial in front of community leaders and observers. We gave the sentence to protect the rule of law and as a deterrent,” said Sai U Hein, a legal officer at the SSPP’s central court.

The six-year-old from Wan Nwat village in Hsipaw Township was raped and killed by a 30-year-old from the same village on Dec. 9, the court heard. The perpetrator then disposed of the body.

He was arrested by the SSPP the following day and handed the death sentence on Tuesday.

“This is the first child rape case [in our territory] and the first death sentence given for child rape. Under the Penal Code applied by [Myanmar’s] government, life sentences are given for rape and murder. Our citizens were deeply shocked by the crime. We give the death sentence in cases that disrupt community peace and tranquility,” said Sai U Hein.

Hsipaw Township state parliamentarian Nan San San Aye said: “We cannot intervene in the verdict. As the victim is a child, harsh action must be taken as a deterrent.”

It is uncommon for ethnic armed groups to publicly announce trials and death sentences. However, the SSPP released a statement about the execution.

Myanmar amended Article 376 of the Penal Code in March last year, increasing the prison sentence for the rape of under-12s and disabled women to at least 20 years.

Civil society organizations and the public have frequently called for death sentences for child rapists. A proposal submitted to the Union Parliament to allow the execution of child rapists was rejected.

No death sentence has been carried out in Myanmar since 1988, although it remains on the statute books.

Translated from Burmese by Thet Ko Ko.

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If a dog can be put to sleep for attacking children, then so should all paedophiles!

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The Shan State Progress Party said the death penalty was 'the only option' for the 30-year-old, who assaulted the girl before throwing her body off a cliff. (Shwe Phee Myay News Agency)

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Shan armed group sentences child murderer to death

December 23, 2020

“The girl’s parents demanded we give him the death sentence – just like he did to their daughter,” a party spokesman said.

By AFP

An ethnic Shan armed group that unofficially controls a swathe of Shan State in northeastern Myanmar has sentenced a man to death for the kidnap, rape and murder of a six-year-old girl.

An official from the Shan State Progress Party said Wednesday the death penalty was “the only option” for the 30-year-old, who assaulted the girl before throwing her body off a cliff.

Shan State is home to several armed ethnic groups who are allowed unofficial autonomy in an uneasy agreement with Myanmar’s military.

The region is part of the golden triangle – including Thailand and Laos – that is frequently described as lawless, and where huge quantities of the world’s heroin, speed and crystal meth are produced.  

“This is the lesson to give to the people, so they don’t commit the same crime in the future,” said party spokesman Sai Than Aung.

“The girl’s parents demanded we give him the death sentence – just like he did to their daughter.”

Yangon-based lawyer and women’s rights activist Hla Hla Yee said the crime was abhorrent, but said the death penalty was a severe punishment.

“There’s scope with the death penalty that it can be handed to an innocent person and injustice can be carried out,” she said.

Non-governmental organisations say child rape is common in Myanmar, and Hla Hla Yee called for a ramp-up in child protection and sex education programs – particularly targeting online pornography.

“People here don’t have sex education knowledge, so they target the kids around them,” she said. 

Armed groups drawn from marginalised ethnic minority communities control an estimated third of Myanmar’s territory. Civilian and legal administration in these areas often sits outside the government’s jurisdiction.

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LEZMOND MITCHELL EXECUTED BY THE U.S FEDERAL GOVERNMENT (AUGUST 26, 2020)

Death row inmate Lezmond Mitchell executed in Indiana

Navajo Nation opposed death row sentencing as a violation of their sovereignty

By Caitlin McFall | Fox News

Lezmond Mitchell, a Native American, became the fourth person to die on death row from a lethal injection this year, for the killings of a woman and her 9-year-old granddaughter in 2001.

The Supreme Court denied Mitchell’s request to stop his execution, Mitchell’s lawyer also had a clemency request pending before President Trump that went unapproved.

The Navajo Nation opposed the execution of Mitchell, saying it violated the Native American group’s sovereignty.

But the family of the 9-year old girl, Tiffany Lee, rejected the Navajo Nation’s stance. “An eye for an eye,” Daniel Lee, her father, told the Associated Press.
“He took my daughter away, and no remorse or anything like that. The Navajo Nation president, the council, they don’t speak for me. I speak for myself and for my daughter,” he added.

Authorities described that Tiffany was hit in the head with rocks by Mitchell and co-defendant Johnny Orsinger, because she did not immediately succumb to her throat having been slit.

SUPREME COURT DENIES KILLER LEZMOND MITCHELL’S STAY REQUEST; EXECUTION SET FOR WEDNESDAY

Tiffany’s grandmother, 63-year-old Navajo woman, Alyce Slim, was stabbed 33 times on a Navajo reservation located in the northeast of Arizona.

Tiffany and Slim were then placed upright in the back seat and driven to an abandoned sheep farm where their bodies were reportedly mutilated and found in a shallow grave.

Mitchell allegedly stole her vehicle for a robbery.

DEATH ROW INMATES' LAST WORDS

Slim had offered Mitchell and Orsinger a ride as they hitchhiked in the Navajo Nation.

Mitchell, 38, was pronounced dead at 6:29 pm Wednesday. When asked if had any last words for his family, he responded, “No, I’m good.”

He received a lethal injection of pentobarbital in a death chamber at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. The injection reportedly took 26 minutes before Mitchell was pronounced dead.

Orsinger was a minor at the time of the crime, and therefore does not face death row, but rather life in prison without parole.

Three other federal executions were conducted in July for the first time in 17 years.
Keith Nelson, who was convicted of the abduction, sexual abuse and killing of 10-year Pamela Butler in 1999, is scheduled to be executed on Friday.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr directed the federal Bureau of Prisons to schedule death row executions starting in mid-July.

The Associated Press and Dom Calicchio contributed to this report.

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WALTER BARTON EXECUTED IN MISSOURI (MAY 19, 2020)

                On this date, May 19, 2020, Walter Barton was executed by lethal injection in Missouri. He was convicted of the murder of Gladys Kuehler in October 9, 1991.

  

'They are executing an innocent man': Last statement of Missouri murderer who was put to death by lethal injection for beating, sexually assaulting and stabbing a woman, 81, in 1991

·         Walter Barton, 64, died by lethal injection on Tuesday for killing Gladys Kuehler

·         It was the first execution since Nathaniel Woods in Alabama on March 5 

·         DNA testing showed that a stain on Barton's clothing was Kuehler's blood 

·         But new testimony, countering blood spatter evidence from the state, is said to have left some jurors 'uncomfortable' with the death penalty they recommended

·         In his final statement released prior to his execution, Barton said: 'I, Walter 'Arkie' Barton, am innocent and they are executing an innocent man!!' 

·         Missouri said it was moving ahead with plans to execute Barton, unlike other states that have postponed executions during the coronavirus pandemic  

·         A federal appeals court on Sunday overturned a 30-day stay of execution

·         Republican Missouri Gov. Mike Parson said Monday that he had not heard anything to make him reconsider the execution

·         Here’s how to help people impacted by Covid-19

By Lauren Fruen and Leah Simpson For Dailymail.com

Published: 09:44 AEST, 20 May 2020 | Updated: 16:06 AEST, 20 May 2020 

A Missouri inmate on Tuesday became the first person to be executed since the coronavirus pandemic took hold.

Walter Barton, 64, died by lethal injection for killing Gladys Kuehler, 81, in 1991. A jury recently said that 'compelling' new evidence made them feel 'uncomfortable' about the conviction and he had long maintained his innocence.  

His case had been tied up for years due to appeals, mistrials and two overturned convictions but his fate was sealed when neither the courts nor Gov. Mike Parson intervened.

Barton breathed heavily five times after the lethal drug entered his body Tuesday evening, then suddenly stopped. In his final statement released prior to his execution, Barton said: 'I, Walter 'Arkie' Barton, am innocent and they are executing an innocent man!!'

A federal appeals court on Sunday overturned a 30-day stay of execution granted by a judge two days earlier. 

Republican Missouri Gov. Mike Parson said Monday that he had not heard anything to make him reconsider the execution which will 'move forward as scheduled.' 

One of Barton's attorneys, Fred Duchardt Jr., had previously said Parson may not have the time to consider clemency because of the attention he must pay to dealing with the coronavirus. 

Barton was executed in Bonne Terre, Missouri, about 60 miles south of St. Louis, at a prison that has no confirmed cases of the virus. Strict protocols were in place to protect workers and visitors from exposure to the coronavirus.

Everyone entering the prison had their temperatures checked. Face coverings were required, and the prison provided masks and gloves for those who didn’t have them.

Witnesses were divided into three rooms. Those witnesses include an Associated Press reporter and other journalists and state witnesses, and people there to support Barton. No relatives or other supporters of the victim attended. 

The execution made Barton the first person executed in the US since Nathaniel Woods was put to death in Alabama on March 5. 

Soon after that, efforts to limit the spread of the coronavirus shut down the US economy and led to strict limits on social distancing, including inside prisons. Three states have put aside executions over the past two-and-a-half months.

Gladys Kuehler operated a mobile home park in the town of Ozark, Missouri, near Springfield. In October 1991 she was found dead in her bedroom. She had been beaten, sexually assaulted and stabbed more than 50 times.

Barton has long said he was innocent, and his case has been tied up for years due to appeals, mistrials and two overturned convictions.

Other states, including Ohio, Tennessee and Texas, have postponed executions after attorneys argued that pandemic-related closures prevented them from securing records or conducting interviews for clemency petitions and court appeals.

Attorneys also expressed concerns about interacting with individuals and possibly being exposed to the virus. And, they've argued that the execution process, which includes placing prison workers and witnesses in close proximity to each other, could lead to spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.

There have been no confirmed cases of the virus in the prison housing Missouri's execution chamber in Bonne Terre, about 60 miles south of St. Louis.

Barton often spent time at the mobile home park that Kuehler operated. He was with her granddaughter and a neighbor on the evening of October 9, 1991, when they found Kuehler dead in her bedroom.

Police noticed what appeared to be blood stains on Barton's clothing, and DNA tests later confirmed it was Kuehler's. Barton said the stains must have occurred when he pulled Kuehler's granddaughter away from the body. 

The granddaughter first confirmed that account but testified that Barton never came into the bedroom. A blood spatter expert at Barton's trial said the three small stains likely resulted from the 'impact' of the knife.

The first attempt to prosecute Barton ended in a mistrial in 1993 after his attorney objected that prosecutors had failed to endorse any trial witnesses. Another mistrial was declared that same year after another jury deadlocked.

Barton was convicted in 1994 and sentenced to death. The state Supreme Court overturned the conviction over objections to the prosecutor's final arguments. Barton was convicted again and sentenced to death in 1998, but another new trial was ordered when a judge found that the prosecution had failed to disclose the full background of one of its witnesses, among other improprieties.

At his fifth trial, in 2006, Barton was convicted for the third time. The state Supreme Court upheld that conviction and death penalty in 2007, but Barton has continued his appeals.

In recent court filings, Barton's attorney, Fred Duchardt Jr., cited the findings of another blood spatter expert. Lawrence Renner examined Barton´s clothing and boots and concluded the killer would have had far more blood stains.

Duchardt said three jurors recently signed affidavits calling Renner's determination 'compelling' and saying it would have affected their deliberations. The jury foreman said that based on the new evidence, he would have been 'uncomfortable' recommending the death penalty.

One of those on the jury went as far to say they had 'serious questions' about Barton's guilt even at the trial.

Barton's attorney previously told The Kansas City Star: 'It is a worse nightmare because evidence, never heard by the jury who rendered judgment, undermines the key evidence used to convict.'

The expert said the killer could not have worn the clothes used in the evidence against Barton. 

'I don't know how anybody could look at the evidence now and convict him,' Duchardt said.

But former prosecutor Ron Cleek, who tried Barton's fifth trial, disagreed.

'He had fair trials. He really did receive his whole due when it came down to it. This last trial that I did was very clean,' he told KSPR. 'The victim gets her just due. I think it was the right decision then. It's the right decision now. His life will be ended so that no one else could be hurt. He is not an innocent man.'

The last execution in Texas, the nation's busiest capital punishment state, was February 6. 

Seven executions that were scheduled since then have been delayed. Six of the delays had some connection to the pandemic while the seventh was related to claims that a death row inmate is intellectually disabled.

The next execution in Texas is set for June 16. Officials have instituted a process requiring witnesses to be be subject to the same screening required of prison employees before entering the facility, Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jeremy Desel said. 

The screening involves questions based on potential exposure to the coronavirus and health inquiries.

Texas' death chamber is not a heavy traffic area and is isolated from all parts of the prison in Huntsville, and it is constantly cleaned, Desel said.

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Walter Barton was executed Tuesday, in the first since Nathaniel Woods in Alabama on March 5

Walter Barton executed for 1991 murder of southwest Missouri woman; pronounced dead at 6:10 pm

State News May 19, 2020May 20, 2020 Alisa Nelson

At 6:10 p.m. on Tuesday, May 19, 2020, convicted murderer Walter Barton, 64, was pronounced dead at the state prison in southeast Missouri’s Bonne Terre. Barton was convicted of first-degree murder for the 1991 brutal stabbing death of 81-year-old Gladys Kuehler of southwest Missouri’s Ozark.

His death makes Missouri the first state in the nation to follow through with an execution since the coronavirus began wreaking havoc on the U.S. According to CBS News, COVID-19 concerns have led to other states postponing executions among death row inmates. The Death Penalty Information Center lists Alabama as carrying out the last execution – on March 5.

Missouri Department of Corrections spokesperson Karen Pojmann tells Missourinet social distancing measures were taken to protect those involved in the execution. She says the nine witnesses were divided into three rooms big enough for them to stay 6 feet apart. According to Pojmann, everyone who entered the prison was screened, with a temperature check, before being allowed to enter, and everyone was given a face cover and hand sanitizer.

Pojmann says no staff or inmates at the maximum-security prison have tested positive for COVID-19.

For nearly 30 years, Barton’s case has been working its way through the court system by way of five different trials. His attorneys attempted to have their client’s execution overturned by claiming the man is innocent and is also incompetent to be put to death due to a brain injury. The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court denied Barton’s appeals and Gov. Mike Parson told reporters Monday that he did not foresee any reason to intervene.

Despite Parson’s comment, death penalty opponents went to Jefferson City today to urge the governor to grant clemency to Barton. A caravan of vehicles drove by the Governor’s Mansion honking and flashing their vehicle lights. A press release from the organizers says key testimony against Barton came from a jailhouse snitch with a long criminal history of crimes of dishonesty such as fraud, bad check writing, forgery, escape, and the use of aliases. The release says the state agreed to drop a pending charge against that witness in exchange for her testimony against Barton.

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