From: Joolz B <joolz_badgirl@y...>
Date: Fri May 10, 2002 1:49 am
Subject: Lynda Lyon Block - murdered

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Two stories below. I am hoping it did not take 9 minutes to kill her (execution started at 12.01 ... she was pronounced dead at 12.10).

May 10



ALABAMA----execution, female

Cop-killer dies in Alabama electric chair; 1st woman executed in state in
45 years


In Atmore, a political extremist convicted of murdering a policeman in
1993 was put to death in the electric chair Friday, becoming the 1st
woman executed in Alabama in 45 years.

Lynda Lyon Block declined to pursue final appeals late Thursday, claiming
the courts were corrupt and lacked jurisdiction in her case. She was put
to death shortly after midnight.

Block, 54, may be the last person forced to die in the state's electric
chair. Under a law that takes effect this summer, condemned inmates in
Alabama will be executed by injection unless they choose the electric
chair.

Block and her common-law husband, George Sibley, were sentenced to death
for killing Opelika police officer Roger Motley Jr. in a burst of gunfire
in a shopping center parking lot. The couple said Motley was reaching for
his gun when they shot him.

Block and Sibley, who decried government controls over individuals and
renounced their U.S. citizenship, were on the run at the time to avoid
being sentenced in the stabbing of Block's former husband in Orlando,
Fla.

"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.

Alabama's electric chair, built in 1927, has been used for 176 executions
since it replaced hanging as the state's primary mode of execution.

Block was the 4th woman put to death in Alabama by electrocution and the
1st since 1957, when Rhonda Bell Martin was executed for poisoning her
husband with arsenic.

Block becomes the 1st condemned inmate in Alabama to be put to death this
year and the 24th overall since the state resumed capital punishment in 1983.

Block become the 26th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in
the USA and the 775th overall since America resumed executions on January
17, 1977.

(sources: Associated Press & Rick Halperin)

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State executes Block


Alabama executed Lynda Lyon Block at 12:01 a.m. Friday for her role in
killing Opelika Police Sgt. Roger Motley in 1993, prison officials said.

She was pronounced dead at 12:10 a prison official reported.

Block and her common-law husband, George Sibley were both convicted for
killing Motley during a gun battle in a Wal-Mart parking lot. She was
convicted of capital murder in 1994 along with Sibley, who remain on
death row. Block may be the last person condemned to die in Yellow Mama,
the states electric chair, which has been in use since 1927. On July 1,
lethal injection becomes Alabamas preferred method of execution, though
inmates can still choose to be electrocuted.

(source: Montgomery Advertiser)

Just saw this. Spencer you know if they hit her with the voltage that they use for that length of time there was nothing left of her. She was a small woman. This makes me so sick.

I don't understand that people can pull over the switch, kill somebody and then claim 'it's my job'? I can't believe they can be proud on their job? what do they tell their children? ' your daddy helps murdering murderers?'

http://www.deathrow.at/polunsky/news/news.html

""One way or the other, I'm going to carry out the court's order"

"Hodges said he reads the crime summary, provided by the Attorney General's office, before each execution.
It helps me in the rationalization that we're doing the right thing," he said. "

they are that naive....

for them it's the 'right' thing to kill a person, someone who has a mother and a father, maybe a wife and children, family, friends....and they think that killing will justify another killing....