USA: A death row inmate was executed for a family vendetta

At USA 35-year-old man involved in the murder of four people was executed in the context of a family vendettawhich resulted in the loss of persons regardless of the case.

In more detail, AFP reports that Gilbert Postel was declared dead at 10.14 local time, after he was given a lethal injection in McAllister prison, the prison authorities announced.

He himself participated in 2005 in a lethal attack along with his father, brother and another person. Their goal was to “take revenge” for fatherwho had been seriously injured in one motorcycle accident.

They went to the house of the man who unjustly believed he was responsible for the accident and shot him sixty times. Gilbert Postel also shot killed two people who tried to escape.

In all, four people were killed in the raid.

the penalties

A US court found all the perpetrators guilty and imposed heavy sentences, according to APE-MPE.

THE father of the 35-year-old, who suffered from severe mental disorders, was found criminally responsible in 2006 and has died. THE brother sentenced to life sentence and fourth man only to six years in prison, why collaborated with researchers.

However, as he was judged to be one of the instigators of the crime, the Gilbert Postel was sentenced to death penalty.

After exhausting all his appeals, he asked the Oklahoma Pardon Office to recommend to the state governor to reduce his sentence.

“I’m sorry for the pain I caused,” he told a hearing in December. Nevertheless, “I am no longer the 19 year old boy I was».

Explain how had grown up in a family addicted to drugs, he has been addicted to methamphetamine since the age of 13 and was very upset by his father’s accident. It was “everything to me despite its flaws”.

Assure that does not remember well the day of the crime. “I can not even say how the decision to kill these people was made.” “I understand that I am guilty and I accept it. “My life at the time was mired in chaos and drugs.”

However, he did not convince the committee and became the third prisoner to be executed in 2022 in the US and the second in Oklahoma.

Source: News Beast

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