EXECUTION OF ROBERT WAYNE WILLIAMS | 12/16/83 | Vintage LSWI

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  • This segment from the December 16, 1983, episode of the series “Louisiana: The State We’re In” features Robyn Ekings’ in-depth report on the execution of convicted murderer Robert Wayne Williams at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, the first execution in Louisiana since 1961. This report includes: a press conference with Angola Warden Ross Maggio following the execution; an interview with Robert Wayne Williams; Baton Rouge District Attorney Ossie Brown and Charles Kelly, the victim’s son, speaking at Williams’ hearing before the Louisiana Board of Pardons; a prayer vigil by opponents of the death penalty at the Governor’s Mansion in Baton Rouge on the night of the execution, including interviews with Tom Dybdahl of Citizens Against the Death Penalty and Susannah Sirken of Amnesty International; Rose Williams, the mother of Robert Wayne Williams, speaking at a prayer vigil outside of Angola on the night of the execution; a press conference with Mary Schlangenstein, a reporter and witness to the execution, reading a statement made by Williams before his death; a press conference with Dan Even and John Hill, reporters and witnesses, recounting the execution of Williams; and an interview with Governor Dave Treen on his decision not to stay the execution. Host: Ken Johnson

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  • @REALcatmom
    @REALcatmom ปีที่แล้ว +214

    Williams was found guilty April 10, 1979, and executed December 16, 1983. That’s pretty fast, for a capital case to go from being found guilty to executed. Nowadays, a convicted person can expect 20-25 years on death row.

    • @KimVerhaaff
      @KimVerhaaff ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Well, he was black sooooo

    • @joeborrajo186
      @joeborrajo186 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      ​@Kim Verhaaff of course, no doubt it's a racial thing! You should be ashamed of yourself!!!

    • @Eggnoodlesandketchup3
      @Eggnoodlesandketchup3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@KimVerhaaff well, he shotgunned a security guard while conducting a robbery sooooo

    • @KimVerhaaff
      @KimVerhaaff ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@Eggnoodlesandketchup3 Isn't shotgunned when you call the front seat? 😉😂😂 but if you just mean shot with a shotgun. That does fully explain the death penalty. The speed in which they did it, not so much

    • @vanessadoravhill9321
      @vanessadoravhill9321 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ​@@joeborrajo186 Ashamed of what?

  • @Nomorewarsforisrael
    @Nomorewarsforisrael ปีที่แล้ว +51

    These shysters will talk about the legal intricacies all day but never say what the killer actually did. Interesting look at social justice in the nineteen eighties.

    • @sanders194539
      @sanders194539 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Jews

    • @MimiJoys
      @MimiJoys หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@sanders194539
      Oh stop it.

  • @nm7358
    @nm7358 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Love how they casually mention like it's nothing how before that date in 1983, Louisiana deliberately never had a black-majority congressional district.

  • @Profit_master
    @Profit_master 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +117

    This is how fast death row should go.

    • @oldironsides4107
      @oldironsides4107 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sure if there is irrefutable evidence.
      But that’s not the case 300 have been exonerated in the last 50 years
      That’s not counting the guys out down that we don’t know about.

    • @MariahTheElusiveSongbird
      @MariahTheElusiveSongbird หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      They don't because of all of the innocent people who were executed.

    • @Stewart-yp7pq
      @Stewart-yp7pq หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      How many people have been in jail that was proved to be innocent years later. Imagine being innocent and getting the death penalty.

    • @qwax
      @qwax หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Stewart-yp7pq She doesn't care. She's a MAGA like Condace Owens.

    • @bfinera
      @bfinera หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yep

  • @MyBizOnlu
    @MyBizOnlu ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Well yeah it's a deterrent, they don't kill again. If ya don't want to wind up on death row then don't commit the crime. Would love to see these anti death penalty with signs for Genesis 9 . 5

    • @ExecuteALLdemoratsANDrinos
      @ExecuteALLdemoratsANDrinos ปีที่แล้ว

      I think you mean Genesis chapter 9 verse 6 but close enough

    • @tiffanymcintyre8375
      @tiffanymcintyre8375 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      💯💯💯💯

    • @joanaisabelcolltruyol3090
      @joanaisabelcolltruyol3090 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      why do these people also speak about the Old Testament....if they were true believers they would also know about the New Testament.....

    • @WilDBeestMF
      @WilDBeestMF 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Is it a deterrent for future offenders?
      Don't be blind.

    • @mortalclown3812
      @mortalclown3812 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We are not a theocracy.

  • @JK-wd6oe
    @JK-wd6oe 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

    Her son murders someone and she feel like her family has been used and abused. Wow

    • @CoupmalaThaThroatGod
      @CoupmalaThaThroatGod 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Funny how it hasnt change in over 30 yrs...they have acted like this since we gave the welfare....

    • @leslieburleson1631
      @leslieburleson1631 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I agree, thi is ehy so many criminals are out there, cause family hss to hold childrem ACCOUNTABLE for what they

    • @inkdemon64mclemore57
      @inkdemon64mclemore57 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Typical victim mentality all day..

  • @sFOREVERJAVKSON
    @sFOREVERJAVKSON ปีที่แล้ว +34

    IT SEEMED TO ME LIKE THE ELECTROCUTION WAS PRETTY INSTANT, COMPARED TO LETHAL INJECTION.

    • @sFOREVERJAVKSON
      @sFOREVERJAVKSON ปีที่แล้ว

      I THINK YOU'RE DEAD WHEN THE FIRST JOLT HITS YOU. SEEMED THAT WAY IN THE VIDEO.

    • @KimVerhaaff
      @KimVerhaaff ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Your caps lock is on.

    • @DaBigChode
      @DaBigChode 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@KimVerhaaff You TDS'ing.

    • @jacktorrance2633
      @jacktorrance2633 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Why you yellin' B?

  • @user-ql8kw2pl2k
    @user-ql8kw2pl2k 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Diggin the little instrumental jam before that lady started talking

  • @Dra3707
    @Dra3707 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    I can only imagine what a black man had to go through in Louisiana justice system

  • @dundeeutility4899
    @dundeeutility4899 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    RIP to him and the victim 😪 there's no winner in this people

  • @PattMcCrotch
    @PattMcCrotch 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    7:35 The man on the far left is still working for the state on the parole board. He’s old as the hills! 😂

    • @Perfectpearl
      @Perfectpearl 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      😂😂😂😂

  • @mortalclown3812
    @mortalclown3812 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Interesting facts:
    2% of counties in the US account for the majority of death row cases. 2%. In that vein, it's hardly who we are as a nation.
    The execution rate for the poor and minorities - compared to stats for Caucasians in similar cases - are much higher. (It bears noting that this is true even when all parties are represented by public defenders.)
    Of great concern is the number of post-sentencing exonerations is jarring, as well. In a system without appeals, these people would be dead and their innocence moot.
    There are also several cases, particularly in Texas, in which there are good chances that innocent people were put to death.
    Adding irony to these statistics, the most executions occur in locales with the highest number of evangelical Christians.

  • @montecarlo4294
    @montecarlo4294 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    If Dexter Morgan were real, we wouldn’t need the death penalty

  • @jasoncolon96
    @jasoncolon96 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    @6:43 Yoo, look at that hat!! 😂😂😂😂

    • @Perfectpearl
      @Perfectpearl 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @kylejimmerson9985
    @kylejimmerson9985 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    If I had a choice of lethal injection or the chair I would definitely choose the chair.

    • @Texan-xw8hi
      @Texan-xw8hi ปีที่แล้ว

      I’d rather have lethal injection

  • @user-mq1pq3nr8y
    @user-mq1pq3nr8y ปีที่แล้ว +18

    ❤All I can say is don't do the crime if you can't do the time, Remember not everybody is for the Death Penalty it won't undo the damage that has already been done and it won't bring back the people Robert Wayne Williams and people like him killed

  • @proud2bpagan
    @proud2bpagan ปีที่แล้ว +5

    i have to say, if i had a full choice of methods, i'd want to be put to the firing squad, or the newer nitrogen poisoning.

  • @hamdanjantan3462
    @hamdanjantan3462 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    5:22, Jesse Jackson looks like a homeless Will Smith in a movie.

  • @carlrichard6492
    @carlrichard6492 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I used to date his daughter 😢I'm sorry Kim😭❤️💯

  • @jacktorrance2633
    @jacktorrance2633 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I gotta admit,i did enjoy listening to Rev. Jackson speak when i was young. I was 13 in 1983 and remember his Presidential campaign in '84 and he did well in the debates. Seemed to make more sense than Gary Hart and Walter Mondale. Maybe if he won the Democratic nomination in '88 we could've avoided Daddy Bush. Probably not though.

    • @suicidality2744
      @suicidality2744 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Jesse foolishly let his anti semitism be known when he referred to New York City as "Hymietown".

    • @navykeef
      @navykeef หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      What was wrong with daddy Bush?

    • @inkdemon64mclemore57
      @inkdemon64mclemore57 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@navykeef Nothing except that he was white and a republican. Liberals really hate us 😅

    • @inkdemon64mclemore57
      @inkdemon64mclemore57 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank God above that Jackson never made it to the White House. We'd be so much worse off than we are right now.

  • @jacquelineroundtree7541
    @jacquelineroundtree7541 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I'm sorry but I feel a life for a life noone has the right to take another's life they can't get that back. If someone takes another's life, that person shouldn't be allowed to breathe and take up space in this planet and have three hots and a cot. How fair is it to the victim or victims they murdered and the families? What about the people he hurt? the court system don't think about the hurting families whose loved ones was taken from them at the hands of some deranged creep who had no value for human life. . it seems like that the courts have been more for the criminals. However in this one I'm surprised and at the same time glad to see that they did denied Robert Wayne Williams commute to life in prison.I feel that they made the right decision to execute him. I don't feel sorry for people like that Anyone that commits terrible crimes like this they deserve what they get I do not feel sorry for people like that, got to pay for your crimes that's how I look at it. You take another's life so should yours be taken, and it's Biblical and I don't know how people can do bad things and think they gotten away with it. Nothing in this life goes unpunished even in the he next life if they don't pay in this one because God is a just God.

  • @lindathrall5133
    @lindathrall5133 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    JESSE JACKSON GOT KICKED OUT OF THE RED CROSS FOR HIS WISECRACKS THAT WERE VERY MEAN

  • @ljay4525
    @ljay4525 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    People are asking why things dont move as fast anymore. Its because they realized that some innocent people were unalived by the government.

  • @kentkrueger6035
    @kentkrueger6035 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    4 years was usually fast. You've got to wonder if race had something to do with it. I use to believe in the death penalty, however I have seen to many situations where those prosecuting these cases think that if they don't get Capitol Punishment then they didn't win. It shouldn't be a case of win or lose. It should be a case of justice. My State doesn't have the death penalty, and the death penalty actually costs the taxpayers more money in most cases than it does to lock someone up for the rest of their life.

    • @JustBree716
      @JustBree716 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      How does it cost more

    • @Joe-qm4yv
      @Joe-qm4yv ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@JustBree716cause they have to be isolated and keeping a wing for just them is expensive especially when we let them play the courts for 30 years wasting time and money

  • @Perfectpearl
    @Perfectpearl 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    10:28
    😂Paris Hilton?!😮😂😂

  • @charbokh
    @charbokh ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Gruesome Gertie 14:38

  • @user-qw8cs9bi5d
    @user-qw8cs9bi5d ปีที่แล้ว +15

    One Date, One Appeal. The End.

  • @nathanielbolden5053
    @nathanielbolden5053 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    William Jefferson that’s a face and voice I haven’t seen/heard in forever!…

  • @phillipvietri8786
    @phillipvietri8786 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I don't know about Russia, but South Africa certainly does not have a death penalty!

    • @chrishanlon02
      @chrishanlon02 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Both did back then

    • @mortalclown3812
      @mortalclown3812 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@chrishanlon02
      Apartheid was just a slower version of it.

    • @philisiwembele1119
      @philisiwembele1119 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Look at a mess we have now...ppl r scared of nothing....

    • @joanaisabelcolltruyol3090
      @joanaisabelcolltruyol3090 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Belarus.....there is death penalty active.....but there is no democracy in there but a dictatorship

  • @tct84
    @tct84 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    LousyAnna doin what they do

  • @MikeTrujillo-fd2fn
    @MikeTrujillo-fd2fn หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    That's a speedy trial? 💉💀

  • @billysmith5721
    @billysmith5721 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    BRING IN THE NEXT, WHILE THE GURNEY IS WARM

    • @tiffanymcintyre8375
      @tiffanymcintyre8375 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      💯💯💯💯

    • @prokastinatore
      @prokastinatore 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sounds that you all so a person full of hate, ya bloodthirsty dude! Don't ya feel ashamed yourself?

  • @alexwilliams9744
    @alexwilliams9744 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Old rhyming jealous Jesse Jackson the Reverend

  • @wardenphil
    @wardenphil ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I love the Electric Chair.

    • @kylejimmerson9985
      @kylejimmerson9985 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah it's pretty cool. I think it's a good way to be executed too. I don't think there would be any pain. I definitely wouldn't want to sit in the gas chamber though. I bet you that is the worst and most painful way

    • @KimVerhaaff
      @KimVerhaaff ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I worry about people who say those things

    • @wardenphil
      @wardenphil ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@KimVerhaaff It only hertz for a moment....

    • @skylarkman2000
      @skylarkman2000 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@wardenphil Haaaaa love that Phil 😅

    • @skylarkman2000
      @skylarkman2000 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Would You ' Ride the Lightning ' ??

  • @davidbowman6239
    @davidbowman6239 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Of course the death ☠️ penalty is not a deterrent

    • @lsad705
      @lsad705 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It is a deterrent. Not one person who has been executed has ever come back and committed any crimes after that. It's a deterrents.

    • @pathologyiscool
      @pathologyiscool ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It certainly is a deterrent for me!!!! IJS

    • @ltdc426
      @ltdc426 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Tell us how life in prison is a deterrent?

    • @russellbeaty7538
      @russellbeaty7538 ปีที่แล้ว

      But revenge is sweet

    • @WilDBeestMF
      @WilDBeestMF 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@lsad705 Very near sighted.

  • @kingofwrestling9758
    @kingofwrestling9758 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Is that Mike Pence??

    • @REALcatmom
      @REALcatmom 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      No, Dave Treen, the governor.

  • @user-mq1pq3nr8y
    @user-mq1pq3nr8y ปีที่แล้ว +12

    You like the Death Penalty? Well I don't I use to it's cruel and unusual punishment

    • @inkdemon64mclemore57
      @inkdemon64mclemore57 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And what the victims are put through is cruel and inhumane, snowflake.

  • @AAMS664
    @AAMS664 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    To execute a healthy person who has a whole lot of living left on this earth; is not only tragic but inhumane. As a citizen of this country. I absolutely am against the death penalty & I would like to see executions of a human being in the USA be abolished.

    • @TheStapleGunKid
      @TheStapleGunKid ปีที่แล้ว +37

      I disagree. For the worst killers, the fact that they have a lot of life left on this earth is an injustice. They don't deserve to live the rest of their life after what they have taken from others. Did you look up what Williams did? His crimes were utterly barbaric.

    • @david-pb4bi
      @david-pb4bi ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I am a socialist myself but if you murder somebody you have got expect to be murdered, people need revenge, that’s a fact if he killed one of my children I could not live while he was still breathing.

    • @romanbotello2163
      @romanbotello2163 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Hahaha. Go away.

    • @tyresepalmer4732
      @tyresepalmer4732 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Keep that same energy if God forbid something horrendous happens to your family by the hands of an devil

    • @KimVerhaaff
      @KimVerhaaff ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Agree. Murdering someone to show murdering is wrong. That's just wrong

  • @Perfectpearl
    @Perfectpearl 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    8 stats is crazy. 😮😮

  • @axtaxt8372
    @axtaxt8372 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Good ole LOOZYANA…

  • @yuy290
    @yuy290 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    He was framed. He was an innocent man.

    • @mariajosemachadolima8610
      @mariajosemachadolima8610 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      você deve ter lido todo o processo, visto todas as provas, foi testemunha.. estava com ele em outro lugar quando o crime foi cometido, pros advogados de defesa e pras famílias dos criminosos todos no corredor da morte são inocentes, a culpa deve ser das vítimas que estão sempre no lugar errado e na hora errada

    • @LegendLength
      @LegendLength หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      He admitted to it so did his wife

  • @FrankJordan-lv1zn
    @FrankJordan-lv1zn 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    They wanted to get this man out of the earth fast as possible.

  • @prinscharles4817
    @prinscharles4817 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    😭🌹🙏

  • @yusufmontresor5154
    @yusufmontresor5154 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This is such a Outrage

  • @Dexter68-eq6ei
    @Dexter68-eq6ei หลายเดือนก่อน

    🦆.

  • @ycamara9034
    @ycamara9034 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Rip

  • @YOUNGC1010
    @YOUNGC1010 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    😂

  • @antneedahitta3027
    @antneedahitta3027 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    As racist as Louisiana is I wish I would listen to these clowns fr