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Source: BBC
25 August 2017 US & Canada
A white supremacist convicted of racially motivated murders three decades ago in Florida has been executed by lethal injection.
Mark Asay is the first white man in state history to be executed for killing a black victim, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
The 53-year-old had been found guilty of two 1987 murders in Jacksonville. The execution took place at 22:22 GMT.
It was the first time a new drug cocktail was used.
A jury found that Asay shot his victims - Robert Lee Booker, a black man, and Robert McDowell, 26, a white-Hispanic man - on the same night after making racist comments.
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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41043810
Jake Stern
(3,145 posts)Gotta sate that bloodlust.
GaryCnf
(1,399 posts)Oh, and almost every word you have read about Mark Asay is a lie, including the parts about him being a white supremacist.
WhiteTara
(29,722 posts)what is his story?
ornotna
(10,807 posts)GaryCnf
(1,399 posts)Over twenty years ago when he was in state capital post conviction. I'm black. I knew him for more than three years. He was not a white supremacist and was less racist than any of his prosecutors, judges, the governors who kept signing his death warrants and most of our presidents. The prosecutors created the race angle out of whole cloth and threatened or paid off witnesses to support it. The courts signed off on it. Asay was their "proof" that neither capital punishment, nor the Jacksonville DA, were racist.
Asay was tatted up by the Aryan Brotherhood when he thrown into Beto I for joyriding a motorhome when he was barely 18. The gang members who put them on him described him during post conviction as the worst AB ever and that he would hang out with black inmates instead of them. His black boyfriend from when he was in prison in Florida for another property crime also testified for him, going over their disciplinary reports from the times they got caught. He called him the least racist white person he had ever known.
The crime itself was the confluence of massive amounts of alcohol, the State's star witness likely killing the first and only black victim, and a guy whose mind was fucked up by a psychopath of a father who used to count the slices of bread and then tie his kids up and beat them with a 2 X 4 if a piece went missing.
Tonight I wish Mark peace.
I wish every person who participated in his death and everyone who cheered it never sleep again.
ornotna
(10,807 posts)I knew nothing of the case or the man, just quoted from the article. Once again, thanks for the education. Florida prisons are brutal. May he Rest In Peace.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)But the state has no business deciding who.
When will be join the civilized world? If ever.