Killer facing execution tonight
HUNTSVILLE — Condemned inmate Robert Anderson freely acknowledges a horrific crime in Amarillo that left 5-year-old Audra Reeves dead and earned him a trip tonight to the Texas death chamber.
“There was nobody else, just me,” Anderson says of the abduction and slaying of Audra Reeves nearly 14 years ago. “She was totally an innocent victim.”
According to court records and Anderson’s confession, he forced the girl to accompany him into the house and tried to rape her, then choked her and beat her with a footstool. When he discovered she still was alive, he drowned her in a bathtub. He stuffed her body into a large foam cooler, pushed the cooler down the street in a grocery cart and dumped it in a trash bin.
An Amarillo jury took less than 15 minutes to come back with a guilty verdict and less than 30 minutes with the death penalty.
Robert Anderson had been molesting and sexually abusing little girls, by his own admission, since he was 10-years old. Men who have it within themselves to harm little children the way that Anderson has done are so far beyond rehabilitation that even Anderson knows it:
“My whole life is a regret,” he said. “I made bad choices all the way up and down as far back as age 10… I should have been in prison when I was 15.”
Anderson says that he is ready to die for his crimes, and has asked that no more appeals be filed on his behalf. If only he had made the same request long ago, perhaps it wouldn’t have taken 14 years to give him his just punishment.
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Anderson’s execution tonight will be the second in as many days in Texas. Yesterday, Mauriceo Brown, 31, was executed for the 1996 shooting death of a 25-year-old Michael LaHood Jr., during a botched robbery on the driveway of Lahood’s San Antonio home.
Next on the schedule is Allen Bridgers, who is scheduled to die five days from today for robbing and shooting to death his 53-year old roommate in 1997.
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UPDATE: He’s dead.
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“My whole life is a regret,†he said. “I made bad choices all the way up and down as far back as age 10… I should have been in prison when I was 15.â€
Sounds good, but at best he would have visited a juvenile center for a few months, rehabilitated, then let loose again.
hmm i wonder if those hypocrytical anti-death penalty people will protest this execution. If they are, i would love for them to see a picture of that 5 year old girl in a dumpster, where she was found and then be able to imagine their own child there.
Yes. They are protesting his execution tonight.
I hope they all pass out from heat exhaustion in front of the Governors Massion.
ha! Heat exhaustion is definitely likely. Not to mention what those Texas-sized mosquitos are capable of.
Wow… this guy really does have a past. And he refers to this as “bad choices”???
I know this guy is painfully, rotting in eternal hell.
This guy deserved much, much more pain than he got. It seems the little girls grandmother died the day before he was executed. She did not get to see him beg for forgiveness.
http://www.suwanneedemocrat.com/suwanneesports/local_story_020081942.html
I can only think of one scheduled execution that, so far as I know, the anti death penalty far left fruitcakes didn’t protest. I can’t even think of the guys name now, but this was in North Carolina. The man had killed a policeman who came barging into his house in the course of some kind of investigation. When the guy heard the sounds of intruders in his home, he got his rife, or maybe it was a shotgun, and shot and killed either one or two cops.
The kicker was-the cops were in the wrong house. It was late at night, the lights were out,and the guy honestly thought he was shooting criminal intruders within his home. Stil, he was convicted, and sentenced to death.
I might be wrong, maybe there were some protests, but if so I know nothing about it, and I think it’s all because these far left nuts, like Mike Ferrell and Edward AssNerd, can’t bear to defend a law abiding citizen who was, to all intents and purposes, exercising his second amendment rights to self defense.
It was all a horrible mistake, a tragic misunderstanding, and if there were any death penalty and execution I would protest, this would be the one. Not these leftist nuts though.
You got your facts all wrong. The case is still on appeal. And the police did not have the wrong duplex.
All I know is he was convicted and sentenced to death, and from what I understood they were in the wrong home, or at least in the wrong apartment. Whaever the case, I haven’t heard of any protests from the anti-death penalty crowd, which was the main point, and that is probably because this was a law abiding citizen who happened to own a gun, and used it to protect his property, at least according to him.
Another example might be the “Railroad Killer”, Angel Maturino Resendiz, who was executed a couple of weeks or so ago. The night of his execution went virtually unmentioned by the mainstram press. It wasn’t mentioned on NBC Nightly News, for example, on the night of the scheduled execution, unless it was the first ten minutes of the broadcast, which I unfortunately missed.
So far as I know the anti-death pentalty crowd didn’t raise a fuss about this either, and this may have been because these are the same people who generally support illegal immigrants rights and to a great extent open borders. Resendiz being an illegal immigrant, my feeling is they might not have felt it wise to call attention to this one murderous crimnal. Therefore, a man who very well may have been insane (at one point he claimed he was an angel, and would rise from the dead) went unrepresented, undefended, and all but ignored by the anti-death penalty fanatics.
The police were execcuting a valid search warrant when of the officers was shot and killed. The police had search warrants for both units of the duplex. The guy was a drug dealer, not a law abiding citizen.
Where are Michelle and lene on this one huh?
Ben, I believe they’re in search of their next notorious pen pal.
No he wasn’t a drug dealer, until proven otherwise in a court fo law he was a law abiding citizen protecting his home from whast he thought were criminal intruders. And I don’t care whether they executed the warrants or not. They might have executed them to the landlord, but they didn’t present them to the occupant of the apartment, from his perspective he was shooting strange intruders who entered his home. Like I said, that is what he claimed anyway, any proof to the contrary, one way or another, is a matter of dispute.
You might also be referring to another case. My understanding of the situation was the police were not only in the wrong home, they were on the wrong street.
Whatever the case, the point is-where are the protestors? Where were the protestors to the execution of Angel Mautrino Resendiz-the illegal immigrant rapist murderer known as “The Railroad Killer”?
As usual, you’re wrong. The police were executing a valid search warrant. He shot and killed a police officer. He has been tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. You can dispute it all you want but it will not change the facts and the law.
No I’m not wrong. But if I am wrong and he is guilty as charged, then I’m fine with it, by the way, I think he should be executed. I’m a supporter of the death penalty. But you’re just arguing the facts of the case, which are in dispute, whether you want ot admit it or not. The facts of the case isn’t the point of what I’m saying, so I’ll try one more time.
Why are the anti-death penalty fruitcakes not protesting his impending execution? Why were these same usual suspects silent when Angel Maturino Resendiz was executed? I say it’s becasue they are hypocrits.
Again, the case in North Carolia involves a man who many people believe (whether it’s true or not) was a law abiding citizen engaged in the act of self-defense and made use of his second amendment right to bear arms to do so-something which is anathema to the far left crowd.
In the case of Resendiz, they feared drawing any more attention to the fact that this was an illegal immigrant who should not have been in the country, and who while here committed a series of rapes and murders, for which he was rightly executed.
I say they didn’t put a lot of effort into protesting his execution, if they put any at all into it, because they vast majority of them support illegal immigration and open borders.
Those are my points. Whether anybody is guilty or not is another matter, and for the jury, or appellate judges, to decide.
When have you been right? According to you, the man was executed already. The facts and law is the point. You and others don’t get to make them up. You know nothing of either yet you feel qualified to give an opinion – no thanks.
And I don’t give a shit why or why not anti-dp people are protesting a case. I’m pro-dp. Why the hell would I care?
There you go again. It’s not a North Carolina case. You have yet to get one fact correct yet you think you can lecture people about the case. Get real. If you don’t know what you are talking about, it’s best to keep your mouth shut.
They have decided. He’s been found guilty. Yet, you who clearly know nothing about the fact of the case say otherwise.
Well, you say you don’t give a shit, “Anonymous”, but you should, because you are clearly full of shit.
Number one, you are a fucking liar, you are not “pro PD.” If you were, you would care very much about the activities of the anti-death penalty crowd. The fact that you claim not to tells me, along with your anonymous facade, that you are probably anti death penalty.
As for what I got right or wrong, I never claimed to know all the facts of the case, I only heard about it one time, and have heard nothing about it since. Now I wonder why that is. I say it’s because you anti-death penalty queers don’t want to advertise it, because it would put you on the spot of having to defend a law abiding citizen who happenned to be a second amendment supporter and gun owner, something you freaks can’t abide.
Just like you can’t abide drawing attention to yet another example of the hordes of Mexcrement that are turning the country into a garbage heap, which is why your kind didn’t want to draw attention to the execution of Angel Maturino Resnediz, being the supporter of open borders and illegal immigrants that you are.
Since you know so much, fool, didn’t you tell me yourself the case, wherever it was, was on appeal? Yes, you did. That means it’s not settled yet. It might well be overturned. Just who the fuck are you to tell me or anybody else they’re wrong about anything.
This is what I read-the guy was in his house. It was night, and no lights were on in the house. He heard the sounds of intruders in his house. He got up, got his gun, saw the figures of intruders, and shot. It turned out they were cops, and at least one of the cops was killed. They were there to investigate drug dealing. But they were in the wrong house. They may have even been on the wrong street. It’s been a long time since I read this, and I’ve only seen it once, but I read it in something that was sent to a news group over the internet, and have seen or heard nothing about it since.
Now, who the fuck are you? Somebody I’m reading over the god damn internet. So why should I assume that your version is the correct one, and the one I’m referring to is not. You haven’t supplied a fucking link to anything I can verify, hell, you haven’t supplied a valid e-mail name, you’re just a fucking ass with an attitude pretending to be a supporter of the death penalty, yet strangely doesn’t care about the activities of the anti-death penalty crowd. Ergo, you are a fucking liar.
Here’s a link to just about everything you’ve ever wanted to know about Resendiz, and then some.
I think Texas weather played a roll in those yahoo’s protest.
I’m tellin’ you, it’s freaking HOT here.
It’s interesting to me, in that the only reason I knew about his execution is because it was covered by my Lexington Kentucky NBC local news affiliate. This was because two of his victims were from Lexington, and the crime occurred near railroad tracks there. Still, I never heard one word about it on the national news.
I was just curious as to if anybody knows whether any anti-death penalty advocates appearred on shows like Larry King to protest the execution, the way they did Stanly “Tookie” Williams. I might be wrong, admittedly, but it seems to me they might have decided to lay low for this one.
I’m not buying for one minute that some of these people, like Mike Ferrell, for example, would decline to attend and protest the execution because of the heat. These people are nothing if not determined.
I forgot to add, thanks for the links KW.
Well, Patrick… you have to consider all that was going on on/about the time Resendiz was given his final nap. It probably just slipped the weedy mind of Mike Ferrell because he was still high from playing Prophet to a bunch of graduates.
The rest of the world may have been in total shock to discover we’re all moral perverts (thank you, Farwell!). And I could be wrong, but wasn’t that also around the time Brad and Angelina’s newborn, Shuatizuqalsheaux (sp?) was making massive headlines?
Let’s face it… even the pro-DP’ers had a lot on their plate.
But it was all over the news here in Houston… fortunately, I had a late night at the office and didn’t have to invest too much of my time thinking about it, other than a quick ‘hooray!’.
Yeah, I might be reading too much into it. I just thought the lack of national news coverage was curious, to say the least. But it went without a mention from Brian Williams, so far as I know (like I said, I might have blinked and missed it).
Houston, of course, like Lexington, was the scene or close to the scene of one of his murders, I think the one he was actually executed on, so the local Houston affiliate would be very remiss if they didn’t mention it. They covered it in Lexington for like three days, even to the point of reporting the delay in his execution.
Anyway, thanks again.