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~ Richard Fairchild, 17Nov22, (OK) ~
By: BuzzC Date: October 26, 2022, 6:12 pm
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Richard Fairchild Oklahoma Death Row--
March 31st, 2021
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Richard Fairchild was sentenced to death by the State of
Oklahoma for the beating death of a three year old child.
According to court documents Richard Fairchild would beat to
death his girlfriends child three year old Adam Broomhall who
had severe burns to his back from being pushed against a heater.
Richard Fairchild would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to
death.
Three-year-old Adam Broomhall, who weighed 24 pounds, died as a
result of brain damage caused when he was thrown against the
vertical surface of the folded-down wing of a drop-leaf table by
his mother’s live-in boyfriend, Richard Stephen Fairchild. The
injury occurred in the early morning hours of Sunday, November
14, 1993, while Adam’s mother, Stacy Broomhall, was asleep in
the bedroom. Adam never regained consciousness and he died later
that morning. Fairchild had been living with Stacy and her three
children in Midwest City.
The day before Adam was killed, Fairchild and Stacy drank beer
most of the afternoon and evening. Fairchild told police he had
started drinking beer about 2:00 p.m. and had consumed about
twelve cans of beer by 9:00 p.m. That evening they visited
Stacy’s mother, Jena Fickland, who lived in north Oklahoma City.
The children watched TV and ate snacks in one room while the
adults watched TV and drank beer in another. When Fairchild and
Stacy were ready to leave, Fickland insisted they were both too
intoxicated to drive and arranged for her seventeen-year-old
daughter, Charity Wade, to drive them home.
Originally Ms. Wade planned to stay overnight at Fairchild’s and
Stacy’s residence. These plans changed when Fairchild made
sexual advances toward her. She put the kids to bed and called a
cab to take her home. Fairchild got angry and got out a baseball
bat. He told Charity that if someone other than a cab driver
came to pick her up, he was going to beat him to death. He tried
to grab her arm and told her she wasn’t leaving. She was finally
able to leave in the cab sometime before 10:30 p.m. She had
checked on Adam before she left, and he was sleeping in his bed.
Approximately three hours later, Adam woke up crying and got out
of bed. Fairchild told Adam to “hush it up” and struck him in
the mouth, rupturing the inside of his upper lip. Adam still did
not stop crying. Fairchild then held Adam’s chest and then his
buttocks up against a hot wall heater. Adam suffered severe
second-degree grid-patterned burns on his chest and bottom, and
was now screaming.
Fairchild admitted to Detective Burton a couple of days later,
“I think I pushed him up against the heater and held him up
there,” and, “The more he screamed, the more I just kept on
hitting him.” Another blow struck Adam’s left ear and ruptured
his eardrum. Finally, Fairchild threw Adam against the drop-leaf
dining table, and when Adam hit the floor, he stopped screaming.
He also stopped breathing.
Fairchild went in the bedroom, woke up Stacy Broomhall, and
called 911. Paramedics arrived shortly and then the police.
Fairchild claims he was intoxicated. However, he was not too
drunk to write out a legible, detailed, coherent story in his
own handwriting, claiming Adam was running in the house and “ran
right into the table.”
Adam was rushed to Children’s Hospital in Oklahoma City where
every effort to save his life failed, and he was pronounced dead
later that morning. An autopsy established that injury to Adam’s
head had resulted in severe hemorrhaging and swelling in the
right half of Adam’s brain and had caused his death. Adam had
sustained approximately twenty-six blows to his body including
several to his head.
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Re: ~ Richard Fairchild, 17Nov22, (OK) ~
By: BuzzC Date: November 17, 2022, 1:17 pm
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Oklahoma executes man for 1993 killing of 3-year-old boy--
Thursday, November 17th, 2022
McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for the
torture slaying of his girlfriend’s 3-year-old son in 1993.
Richard Stephen Fairchild, who turned 63 on Thursday, began
receiving the first of a lethal three-drug combination at 10:10
a.m. at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. He was
declared dead at 10:24 a.m.
Fairchild, an ex-Marine, was convicted of killing Adam Broomhall
after the child wet the bed. Prosecutors say Fairchild held both
sides of Adam’s body against a scorching furnace, then threw him
into a table. The child never regained consciousness and died
later that day.
Strapped to a gurney inside the death chamber, Fairchild thanked
his attorneys and prison staff and apologized to Broomhall’s
family.
“Today’s a day for Adam, justice for Adam,” Fairchild said.
Michael Hurst, the slain child’s uncle, said the boy would have
been 34.
“Our long journey for justice has finally arrived,” Hurst said,
adding that he was surprised to hear Fairchild express remorse
for killing his nephew. “He hadn’t said that in 30 years.”
Prosecutors from the Oklahoma attorney general’s office had
described the boy’s killing as torture when they wrote to the
state’s Pardon and Parole Board, which voted 4-1 last month
against recommending clemency for Fairchild.
Fairchild’s execution was the seventh since Oklahoma resumed
carrying out the death penalty in October 2021 and one of four
scheduled nationwide over a two-day stretch. It was the 16th
execution in the U.S. this year, including one in Texas and one
in Arizona on Wednesday, up from last year’s three-decade low of
11. An execution was also scheduled for later Thursday in
Alabama. Oklahoma’s attorney general this summer asked the
state’s top criminal appeals court to set more than two dozen
execution dates.
Fairchild’s attorneys filed last-minute appeals Wednesday with
Oklahoma’s Court of Criminal Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court,
but both courts denied his requests Thursday morning.
Earlier Thursday, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals denied
a request from death row inmate Richard Glossip for a hearing to
determine whether a co-defendant sought to recant his testimony
that Glossip hired him to kill motel owner Barry Van Treese.
Glossip’s attorneys allege evidence was withheld by prosecutors,
including interviews with witnesses. The court rejected a
similar request by Glossip earlier this month and on Thursday
ruled that the matters are not eligible for review because they
either were settled previously by courts, could have been
presented in earlier appeals or were not raised within 60 days
of their discovery.
Glossip is scheduled for execution in February.
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