Woman dies in Alabama's electric chair for murder of policeman
The Associated Press
05-10-2002

Political extremist Lynda Lyon Block became the first woman executed in Alabama in 45 years, dying in the electric chair early Friday for the 1993 murder of a policeman.

Block died at 12:10 a.m. Friday, said John Hamm, corrections spokesman.

Block wore a prison outfit with her shaved head covered by a black hood. She wore light makeup, with mascara and a pale shade of pink lipstick.

There was no final statement.

The widow, mother and sister of Block's victim, Opelika Police Officer Roger Motley Jr., witnessed the execution.

Block made no request for a final meal, corrections spokesman John Hamm said Thursday evening, because she had been fasting on milk and water for religious reasons since noon on Tuesday.

Her religious beliefs were not specified, but Hamm said Block met with her spiritual advisor, former Tutwiler Prison chaplain Sally Micheaud.

Block also met with three friends, Juan Aldriotico Sr., Juan Aldriotico Jr., and Alcira Aldriotico. The nature of the family's relationship with Block was unknown.


Woman dies in Alabama's electric chair for murder of policeman

State sanctioned murder is murder - another black day in Alabama's history.

YES, ANOTHER NEEDLESS DEATH

I read this about what the mother said:

"The Bible says when murder happens and a person has no sorrow, they are
to be immediately executed," said Anne Motley, the victim's mother.

I am not that up on my Bible, but I have never read anything of this type. Has anyone else?

NO, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW BOOK/VERSE- MANY TIMES VERSES ARE MISINTERPRETED

It is a crazy debate when people pull out scripture to back thier arguments. For every scripture that is pulled to make a point or law another one can be found to counter it. I don't know why people continue this madness.

The scripture they use is Romans 13:1-5
Which also calls on the Bible believers to kill a few other people.

It's Old testment which most larger religious cults throw out any way but pull out a verse or two when it suits them. Such as to condemn homosexuls and keep women subordinate. They used Biblical verses to keep slavery into law. It was an misinterpreted verse that allowed the torture and burning women alive at the stake for false witchcraft accussations.

Scary...... scary...... scary Anything done because the bible has a verse that causes men to make a law makes me weary.

Thank God we have seperataion of church and state or we would be in a lot of trouble right now.

I believe the best way to fight and over turn the death penalty is not to flame the fires of moralty. It just won't work because it is too emotional. Everyone has this decsions already made either rationaly or not.

Fight the Death Penalty on money issues! Higher taxes always gets the politicions listening especially around elections time.

From this; the cost of keeping a 25-year-old inmate for 50 years at present
amounts to $805,000. Assuming 75 years as an average life span, the
$805,000 figure would be the cost of life in prison. So roughly it's
costing us $2 million more to execute someone than it would cost to
keep them in jail for life. This is just the dollar cost.
I bet they could save that much more in not having to use so much CS GAS four or time a day. I want to look up the cost of gassing death row inmates for a year! ha ha

THe numbers for TExas:
"A 1991 study of the Texas criminal justice system estimated the cost of
appealing capital murder at $2,316,655. In contrast, the cost of housing
a prisoner in a Texas maximum security prison single cell for 40 years is
estimated at $750,000."
(Punishment and the Death Penalty, edited by Robert M. Baird and Stuart E.
Rosenbaum 1995 p.109 )

Unfortunately, this is what our world has come to. No one cares if it is right or wrong morally. The death penalty would be overturned if everyone in Texas were to tell the governor that if he didn't over turn the death penalty, they would not vote for him in the next election.

It's all about votes and putting people in power.
A sad day in this world:(

There is a place in bible that says that eye for an eye stuff but if you read on down it says that the murder must have been witnessed by more than one person and that family of murder victim is the one that should be doing the murder of the perp not the state government

(Beisides abolishing capital punishment and until they do)
I think the question should be asked, of the victim's family members, when the sentence is handed out. "Who will pull the switch?" If they can't do it then no one should do it.

>>>eye for an eye stuff<<<

It is also written, that Jesus said, those without "sin" to throw the 1st stone.

Torrey, you got it!!!

Torrey, I agree that most Pro-death Penalty people quote the Old Testament. What they forget (calling themselves Christians) is that we no longer live under the Old Testament Laws. If we did, read the book of Lamentations. There are so many laws there that NO ONE could follow them all. This is the reason that Jesus gave his live for us.

We now live under GRACE, not the Old Testament Laws. I wish there were a way to get these people to really understand this. What a lot of people do today when they quote a specific verse in the Bible is just that. Quote one verse. They do not take the time to look at the verses before and after that verse or to look at what was going on in that entire chapter of the Bible. This is why there are so many different denominations today. Because EVERYONE interprets what they read differently.

Just my opinion.

Tracy

I do not believe that any "verse" was ment to stand alone!

Basicly because when translating from an original to another language, sometimes words are choosen that closely matches the original because there's no other choice, thereby, one needs a broader picture in order to understanding the whole.

I was taught that taking anything as a stand alone, was basicly out of context. Not a bad rule of thumb to follow!

Excellent point BRay.

Hey guys I agree with you all. I tried to find something to post it but they didnt put in online but it was in Sat's paper here where the police officers's wife was there to witness Lynda's execution along with his mother and his sister. BEFORE the execution started she had one of the corrections officers to take her out of there. She couldnt even watch it. She made a statement to the press saying she felt sorry for Lynda and that she was sure that her years had been lonely years. One of the reporters asked her if she had changed her opinion of the death penalty and she would NOT give him an answer. I believe with all my heart IF I believed in the death penalty and someone had killed my husband and I had NOT changed my opinion I could have answered that question rather quickly.

YOU ALL ARE SO VERY CORRECT.... IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, IT DOES SAY "AN EYE FOR A EYE AND A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH." BUT, REMEMBER, JESUS WAS BORN IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. HE TAUGHT LOVE AND CARING FOR YOUR FELLOW MAN.... HE STOOD ON THE MOUNTAIN, FEAD 5,000 PEOPLE WITH TWO LOAVES OF BRREAD AND FISH...... HE TAUGHT THAT WE SHOULD LOVE OUR NEIGHBOR AS OURSELVES. HE TAUGHT FORGIVENESS AND HOW TO TREAT EACH OTHER.... WE TEND TO FORGET THAT TO BE CHRISTIAN, WE MUST BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST..... IF WE ARE CHRISTIAN, THEN WE WILL FORGIVE AND STOP TAKING LIVES...

DONNA

this is sooooo true Donna soooooo true

"AND THE GREATEST OF THESE IS LOVE"..........