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Jeffrey Williams Texas Execution

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Jeffrey Williams was executed by the State of Texas for the murder of a police officer. According to court documents Jeffrey Williams was driving a stolen vehicle and when Houston Police Officer Troy Blando attempted to arrest him a struggle ensued and the Officer was fatally shot in the chest. Jeffrey Williams would be convicted and sentenced to death. Jeffrey Williams was executed by lethal injection on May 15, 2013

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A Houston man condemned for the slaying of a police officer shot while trying to handcuff him during a car theft arrest 14 years ago was put to death Wednesday evening.Jeffrey Demond Williams, 37, received lethal injection just over an hour after his last-day appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court failed. Asked to make a final statement, Williams spoke quickly and angrily, beginning with “You clown police,” and accused them of “killing innocent kids, murdering young kids.”

“Y’all are getting away with murder all the time,” he continued. “When I kill one or pop one, y’all want to kill me.” He ended his brief tirade by saying: “God has a plan for everything. … I love everyone that loves me, I ain’t got no love for anyone that don’t love me.” He briefly picked up his head as the lethal drug took effect, then took several deep breaths and began gently snoring. Williams was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m. CDT, 26 minutes after lethal drug began, making him the sixth Texas inmate executed this year.

 Williams’ lawyers had appealed to the nation’s highest court to block the punishment after lower courts rejected their arguments that Jeffrey Williams was failed by his previous attorneys.  Williams was convicted of fatally shooting 39-year-old Houston officer Troy Blando while Blando was handcuffing him on May 19, 1999. Williams shot Blando with a gun he had tucked under his shirt. Blando was watching a motel where car thefts were suspected when he saw Williams drive up in a Lexus that was reported stolen in a carjacking nine days earlier. Prosecutors say that after shooting Blando, Williams fled the scene but only made it about a block before he was captured. Blando’s cuffs were hanging from one of his wrists. “I have no sympathy for him,” Ray Hunt, president of the Houston Police Officers Union, said after standing outside the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Huntsville Unit with a couple dozen officers and supporters, several on roaring motorcycles, while the execution was carried out inside. “Continuing to the very end ridiculing the police just shows what kind of thug he is.”

 In their appeal, Williams’ attorneys contended his execution should be postponed so that the courts can further review their claims that he received substandard legal help at his trial that influenced the jury’s decision to sentence him to death. They also said he received “grossly deficient” counsel early on in the appeals process because his attorneys then didn’t address the poor job his trial attorneys had done. Attorneys for the state opposed any delay, contending Williams’ arguments were rejected by the courts, including the Supreme Court, in earlier appeals. 

Jeffrey Williams’ fingerprints were found on the Lexus and also on Blando’s vehicle, evidence showed. When arrested, Williams was carrying the 9 mm pistol determined to be the murder weapon. At his trial, his lawyers tried to show Williams was unintelligent, had emotional problems and didn’t deserve to die. Evidence showed Williams gave investigators five taped confessions the day he was arrested. Williams said he fired in self-defense, feared Blando could have been a carjacker and didn’t know Blando was an officer. In another confession, he acknowledged knowing he was shooting a policeman.

 Court records show Blando, although in plain clothes, was carrying his badge around his neck. “Troy was a great investigator,” said Jim Woods, who worked with Blando in the police auto theft division. “He had a great wealth of knowledge, was very dedicated. He’d take on the hard cases as well as the easy ones.  “He loved to go out and chase car thieves. Unfortunately, that was probably his demise.”  Testimony and confessions also linked Jeffrey Williams to four robberies, another shooting and an attempted robbery. Williams became the 498th Texas prisoner put to death since the state resumed carrying out capital punishment in 1982. At least eight others have executions scheduled in the coming months.

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/houston-man-executed-for-fatal-officer-shooting/2075434/

David Simonsen Oregon Death Row

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David Simonsen and Jeffrey Williams were sentenced to death by the State of Kentucky for a sexual assault and murder. According to court documents David Simonsen and Jeffrey Williams would pick up up the two German tourists who were sexually assaulted and murdered. Both David Simonsen and Jeffrey Williams would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.

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Offender Name:Simonsen, David Lynn
Age:53dot clearDOB:01/1968dot clearLocation:Oregon State Penitentiary
Gender:Maledot clearRace:White Or European Origindot clearStatus:AIC
Height:6′ 06”dot clearHair:Browndot clearField Admission Date:02/27/1989
Weight:195 lbsdot clearEyes:Browndot clearEarliest Release Date:Death

Jeffrey Williams Death

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Jeffrey Ray Williams died in custody in 2019. No cause of death was released however it is believed it was from natural causes

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Williams and David Lynn Simonsen were convicted and sentenced to death for the 1988 sexual assault and shotgun slayings of Unna Tuxen, 24, and Kathrin Reith, 22, German tourists who were hitchhiking up the West Coast near the Oregon-California border.

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On September 3, 1988, the bodies of two women were found in a remote area near Coquille.   Both women, who had been dead for two or three days, were nude from the waist down.   They had been tied together at the wrists and shot in the head from close range with a shotgun.   Police found a great deal of physical evidence at the scene, including tire tracks from a small automobile.

Investigators eventually determined that the victims were from West Germany.   A week after the bodies were discovered, two witnesses separately came forward to report that defendant had said that he and a man named Jeff Williams had been involved in shooting two women with a sawed-off shotgun.   On September 11, 1988, police arrested defendant.   After being advised of his rights, defendant gave two statements confessing that he and Williams had abducted, raped, and murdered the women.   As a result of defendant’s confessions, investigators eventually recovered significant evidence implicating defendant, including the suspect automobile and the murder weapon.

After being charged with two counts of aggravated murder, defendant pleaded guilty.   The trial court conducted a penalty-phase proceeding.   The jury answered the penalty-phase questions put to it in the affirmative, and the trial court sentenced defendant to death.

On October 4, 1990, on automatic review, this court affirmed defendant’s convictions, but vacated the sentence of death, because the jury was not presented with the “fourth question” under ORS 163.150 (1989).  State v. Simonsen, 310 Or. 412, 798 P.2d 241 (1990) (Simonsen I);  see generally State v. Wagner, 309 Or. 5, 14-20, 786 P.2d 93 (1990) (setting out reasons that “fourth question” must be given).

On remand, defendant again was sentenced to death.   However, on automatic review of that sentence, this court held that the state had obtained evidence against defendant in violation of his right against self-incrimination under Article I, section 12, of the Oregon Constitution.  State v. Simonsen, 319 Or. 510, 514, 878 P.2d 409 (1994) (Simonsen II).   Accordingly, this court again vacated the sentence and remanded the case for a third penalty-phase proceeding.  Id. at 519, 878 P.2d 409.   At the close of that proceeding, the jury again answered the penalty-phase questions in the affirmative and the trial court sentenced defendant to death.   This automatic review followed.

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