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~ William Lecroy, 22Sep20, (FedGA) ~
By: BuzzC Date: September 15, 2020, 3:10 pm
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WILLIAM LECROY, 50
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A real Georgia peach, LeCroy was convicted of the 2001 sex
slaying of nurse Joann Lee Tiesler, 30. Cops say LeCroy raped
Tiesler at her home, strangled her with electrical cord, then
slashed her throat. The killer then stole her vehicle and made a
run for the Canadian border where he was busted. He had
previously done federal and state time for child molestation,
r*p* and a slew of petty crimes.
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Re: ~ William Lecroy, 22Sep20, (FedGA) ~
By: BuzzC Date: September 27, 2020, 4:57 am
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Killer obsessed with witchcraft executed by U.S. government--
William Emmett LeCroy killed Joann Lee Tiesler in 2001. "Today
justice was finally served," the victim's father said.
September 23, 2020
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — The U.S. government on Tuesday executed a
former soldier who said an obsession with witchcraft led him to
kill a Georgia nurse he believed had put a spell on him.
William Emmett LeCroy, 50, was pronounced dead at 9:06 p.m.
after receiving a lethal injection at the same U.S. prison in
Terre Haute, Indiana, where five others have been executed in
2020 following a 17-year period without a federal execution.
Lawyers had asked President Donald Trump in a petition to
commute LeCroy’s sentence to life in prison, saying that
LeCroy’s brother, Georgia State Trooper Chad LeCroy, was killed
during a routine traffic stop in 2010 and that another son’s
death would devastate their family.
The execution began nearly three hours later than scheduled as
LeCroy’s lawyers made an ultimately failed, last-minute bid to
convince the U.S. Supreme Court to issue a stay.
As a curtain rose across glass windows separating witnesses from
the death chamber, LeCroy lay strapped to a cross-shaped gurney,
with IVs in his forearms and hands. He kept his eyes fixed
firmly on the ceiling, not turning to look toward witnesses. The
witnesses included the father and fiancé of Joann Lee Tiesler,
whom LeCroy raped and stabbed to death 19 years ago, Justice
Department spokesperson Kerri Kupec said in a statement.
LeCroy's spiritual adviser, Sister Barbara Battista, stood a few
feet away inside the chamber, her head bowed and reading softly
from a prayer book.
LeCroy had said last week he didn't want to play into what he
called the "theater" surrounding his execution and so might not
make a full statement in the minutes before he died, Battista
told The Associated Press earlier Tuesday.
When a prison official leaned over him Tuesday night and gently
pulled off LeCroy's face mask to ask if he had any last words,
LeCroy responded calmly and matter-of-factly. His last and only
words were: "Sister Battista is about to receive in the postal
service my last statement."
LeCroy kept his eyes open as someone out of his view in an
adjacent room began administering the lethal injection of
pentobarbital. His eyelids grew heavy while his midsection began
to heave uncontrollably. After several more minutes, color
drained from his limbs, his face turned ashen and his lips
tinted blue. After about 10 more minutes, an official with a
stethoscope entered the chamber, felt LeCroy’s wrist for a pulse
and then listened to his heart before officially declaring him
dead.
Another execution, of Christopher Vialva, is scheduled Thursday.
He would be the first African American on federal death row to
be put to death in the series of federal executions this year.
Critics say the Justice Department's resumption of federal
executions this year is a cynical bid to help Trump claim the
mantel of law-and-order candidate leading up to Election Day.
Supporters say Trump is bringing long-overdue justice to victims
and their families.
LeCroy broke into the Cherrylog, Georgia, mountain home of Joann
Lee Tiesler on Oct. 7, 2001, and waited for her to return from a
shopping trip. When she walked through the door, LeCroy struck
her with a shotgun, bound and raped her. He then slashed her
throat and repeatedly stabbed her in the back.
LeCroy had known Tiesler because she lived near a relative's
home and would often wave to her as he drove by. He later told
investigators he'd come to believe she might have been his old
babysitter he called Tinkerbell, who LeCroy claimed sexually
molested him as a child. After killing Tiesler, he realized that
couldn’t possibly be true.
Two days after killing Tiesler, LeCroy was arrested driving
Tiesler's truck after passing a U.S. checkpoint in Minnesota
heading to Canada.
Authorities found a note LeCroy wrote before his arrest in which
he asked Tiesler for forgiveness, according to court filings.
"You were an angel and I killed you," it read.
“Today justice was finally served. William LeCroy died a
peaceful death in stark contrast to the horror he imposed on my
daughter Joann,” the victim’s father, Tom Tiesler, said in a
statement.
"I am unaware that he ever showed any remorse for his evil
actions, his life of crime or for the horrific burden he caused
Joann’s loved ones," the statement read.
A few hours before the execution, Battista, waiting near the
prison, held a bag of caramel chocolate that she said was
LeCroy's favorite. In conversations with him in the days leading
up to the execution, she said he had been contemplating his
likely death and sounded resigned.
"He said, 'You know, once we were not and then we are and then
we are not,'" she said. "He was reflective. He didn’t seem
agitated."
LeCroy joined the Army at 17 but was soon was discharged for
going AWOL and later spoke about an interest in witchcraft that
began during a previous stint in prison for burglary, child
molestation and other charges.
He had ruminated for days before the slaying about how Tiesler
was Tinkerbell and that assaulting her would reverse a hex she
put on him. After he cut her throat, he went to Tiesler's
computer to search for books about witchcraft, court filings
said.
He was convicted in 2004 on a federal charge of carjacking
resulting in death and a jury recommended a death sentence.
LeCroy's lawyers had unsuccessfully tried to halt the execution
and argued that his trial lawyers didn't properly emphasize
evidence about his upbringing and mental health that could have
persuaded jurors not to impose a death sentence. Their
last-minute appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court was also rejected.
Over previous 56 years, before the Trump administration’s reboot
of executions this year, the federal government had executed
just three people — all in the early 2000's. Oklahoma City
bomber Timothy McVeigh was among them...
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