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Post by carolinem on Apr 24, 2007 10:38:58 GMT -5
James Filiaggi executed by the State of Ohio:
Time of death: 11:23 AM
He will now be with His God.
Rest in peace Fili
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Post by carolinem on Apr 24, 2007 10:58:26 GMT -5
Filiaggi dies for killing his wife
Posted by Donna J. Miller and Mark Puente
April 24, 2007 11:51AM
James Filiaggi was executed at 11:23 a.m. today.
He apologized for "flipping everybody's world upside down," and said, "this is fine for me. I think the end is something new and wonderful."
Filiaggi also asked his family and friends to take good care of his daughters.
He had been in good spirits all morning, prison officials said.
He didn't sleep last night. He talked by telephone to his family and friends from 9:07 p.m. to 5:34 a.m. He ate waffles with syrup, orange juice, apple juice and coffee for breakfast. He was offered a medication to calm his nerves. He said he didn't need it.
The 41-year-old Lorain County man has been on death row since 1994, when he shot his ex-wife in the head.
Filiaggi's mother, father, sister, attorney and minister met with him this morning.
His death was witnessed by Lisa Filiaggi's mother, Lisa's fiancee and a cousin.
Several of Filiaggi's college friends had planned to attend, along with his minister and attorney. His two teenage daughters will not be there.
Six news reporters also witnessed the execution
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Post by carolinem on Apr 24, 2007 11:10:46 GMT -5
Ohio executes man who gunned down ex-wife
JOHN MCCARTHY
Associated Press
LUCASVILLE, Ohio - A man who lost attempts to challenge the state's lethal injection method was executed Tuesday for chasing his ex-wife into a neighbor's house, dragging her into a bedroom and fatally shooting her in the head 13 years ago.
James Filiaggi, 41, a death row volunteer who had given up his appeals in 2006 to speed up his sentence, reconsidered late last week and tried unsuccessfully to get the courts to delay his execution.
He died at 11:23 a.m. by injection, a process he had argued amounted to torture. The execution happened about an hour and a half later than scheduled at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility because prison officials had waited for the U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
The high court and three other courts ruled against Filiaggi within the 24 hours before his execution. He had sought to join other Ohio inmates in a lawsuit over the constitutionality of lethal injection, contending that the method constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
In he final statement, Filiaggi took a shot at the death penalty, saying many innocent inmates are on death row.
"For me - it's fine," he said.
He gave a thumbs up to his family as he was being strapped to a table and later smiled and repeated the gesture with his spiritual adviser, a Roman Catholic priest.
"I want to say thanks to my family for all the support," he said. "I'm sorry I flipped up the world."
Filiaggi had a strained relationship with Lisa Huff Filiaggi, whom he married in 1991. She filed for divorce nine months later and received custody of their two young girls when the divorce was granted in 1993.
James Filiaggi, who has a history of domestic violence, chased his ex-wife through her Lorain neighborhood on Jan. 24, 1994, then followed her into a neighbor's house and shot her.
Attorneys for Filiaggi entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, arguing that a brain disorder made him unable to control anger-filled outbursts. Prosecutors said he knew right from wrong. A three-judge panel in Lorain County convicted him of aggravated murder and other charges in 1995.
The victim's mother, cousin and fiance at the time of her death witnessed the execution.
Legal challenges to the use of lethal injection have been filed in several states with mixed results. Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court delayed the execution of another inmate in Ohio after he joined the same lawsuit.
Other executions in Ohio have been delayed in the past year because of the suit, although a former cult leader also was put to death despite his appeal.
This was the first execution carried out under Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland, who took office in January. Strickland denied clemency last week, even though Filiaggi didn't ask for his life to be spared.
Filiaggi was the 25th inmate that Ohio put to death since resuming executions in 1999, all under former Gov. Bob Taft, a Republican.
The Filiaggi's daughters, now 16 and 14, are being raised by James Filiaggi's younger brother, Anthony, in Elyria.
In a note to the Ohio Parole Board, 14-year-old Jasmin Filiaggi wrote that she had no sympathy for her father.
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Post by Jasmin on Mar 27, 2008 20:12:10 GMT -5
Too bad thats my dad.... quit trying to make it seem like everything that he did was o.k. and he was a good person. Nobody is a good person when they kill someone. They need to think and obviously my dad didnt. You need to get that through your head.  |
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Post by scotkaz on May 3, 2008 15:05:45 GMT -5
Too bad thats my dad.... quit trying to make it seem like everything that he did was o.k. and he was a good person. Nobody is a good person when they kill someone. They need to think and obviously my dad didnt. You need to get that through your head. Jasmin, Your father ended up being a wonderful man who was well respected and loved by many people all over the world. People change and he was one who did change. He expressed his sorrow and remorse many times. He paid the ultimate price and is at peace now. |
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Post by carolinem on May 4, 2008 2:21:13 GMT -5
James 'Fili' Filiaggi was and always will be a very special friend to me. We corresponded regularly and during some of my many visits to MANCI I hade the pleasure to meet Fili personally.
In the time that we knew each other we talked of life in there and outside, shared our favourite Italian and other recipes, swapped jokes, and spoke of our love for our families. And over and over again Fili expressed his deep and sincere regret and remorse for the terrible crime he had committed, and the sorrow he would always have that he had taken his beloved daughters' mother from them.
We cannot go back and fix the wrongs we did in life Jasmin, but we can move on and become a better and more worthwhile person, someone who does good for others, and that's what you father did, even though he lived those last years of his on death row, he became a man whom many of us loved and felt proud to know.
I pray that as you grow older and mature you too will be able to move on and leave the bitterness behind you, and to forgive your father for the great worng he did, as I am sure that the God in whom he came to believe in so strongly has done.
May you and your sister be blessed.
sincerely
Caroline
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Post by Kathie on May 26, 2017 3:29:27 GMT -5
James 'Fili' Filiaggi was and always will be a very special friend to me. We corresponded regularly and during some of my many visits to MANCI I hade the pleasure to meet Fili personally. In the time that we knew each other we talked of life in there and outside, shared our favourite Italian and other recipes, swapped jokes, and spoke of our love for our families. And over and over again Fili expressed his deep and sincere regret and remorse for the terrible crime he had committed, and the sorrow he would always have that he had taken his beloved daughters' mother from them. We cannot go back and fix the wrongs we did in life Jasmin, but we can move on and become a better and more worthwhile person, someone who does good for others, and that's what you father did, even though he lived those last years of his on death row, he became a man whom many of us loved and felt proud to know. I pray that as you grow older and mature you too will be able to move on and leave the bitterness behind you, and to forgive your father for the great worng he did, as I am sure that the God in whom he came to believe in so strongly has done. May you and your sister be blessed. sincerely Caroline Caroline, You have NO right to lecture Jasmine, Lisa's precious daughter, about that animal who executed her mother. She is entitled to hate him & even be grateful that he's now paid for Lisa's life by losing his own. Forgiveness is a gift that we give ourselves, not our offenders. May Jasmine & her sister be free from the burdens of hanging onto any bitterness & be able to remember their mother's life & not her death. If they choose to forget the animal who stole their mother from them, that's their right as well. You may believe that evil bastard was rehabilitated but no one else has to-certainly not those who suffered the most. Shame on you. |
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Post by Betsy on May 22, 2018 14:17:27 GMT -5
I say I agree with you 100% he was a monster of evil and I believe you cannot change a evil killer!!! May he go straight to hell and burn for eternity his mother set back and did nothing she is as much at blame as her evil son!!
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