Court sets execution date for Daniel Siebert

[MXB]

Supreme Court sets execution date for Daniel Siebert

7/30/2007, 9:20 p.m. CDT The Associated Press


MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Supreme Court has set an Oct. 25 execution date for Daniel Lee Siebert for the 1986 murders in Talladega of a deaf student and her two children.
The Supreme Court on Monday granted a petition from the Alabama Attorney General's office asking it set an execution date for the 53-year-old Siebert, who has been on death row for 20 years.

Siebert was sentenced to death for the Feb. 19, 1986 strangulation deaths of Sherri Weathers, 24, and her two sons, 5-year-old Chad and 4-year-old Joey Weathers was a student at the Alabama School for the Deaf in Talladega and had been dating Siebert. The bodies were found in her Talladega apartment several days after the three were killed.

Siebert was also convicted of capital murder in the death of Linda Jarman, a neighbor of Weathers, who was killed the same night.
Siebert was arrested six months later in Hurricane Mills, Tenn., following a manhunt in which police said he used several aliases and traveled to locations including Elizabethtown, Ky., Atlantic City, N.J., and New Kent County, Va.

Assistant Attorney General Clay Crenshaw said Siebert has exhausted all of his appeals for the killing of Weathers and her children.

Siebert has filed a federal lawsuit challenging Alabama's method of execution, lethal injection. In papers filed with the Supreme Court, the attorney general's office asked that Siebert's execution not be delayed because of the pending lawsuit.

In the lawsuit, Siebert claims that the way Alabama administers lethal injection could cause him severe pain. He also says in the lawsuit that he has been given a preliminary diagnosis that he suffers from hepatitis C and pancreatic cancer, which the suit says could cause complications with the lethal injection procedure.

Siebert's attorneys could not immediately be reached for comment.

[gellibee]

I know that Siebert did terrible things, but I don't belive in the death penalty at all. I don't see why he can't be incarcerated for the rest of his life, which considering he has pancreatic cancer, which is invariably fatal, probably won't be too long anyway.

[He needs to be put down]

Quite frankly, he should go through the same pain, fear and torture he put his victims through. They weren't suffering from cancer when he brutally murdered them. Maybe you should re-read the facts surrounding the case(s); better yet maybe you should look at the crime scene photos. Just don't let your little ones anywhere near your PC when you bring them up. This guy is a monster.

One can only cringe with anger after thinking about what those little kids were going through right before this non-human, lower then scum, piece of s__t decided to get his rocks offs by murdering them.

Sorry, but I'm not so empathectic towards a killer who kills little kids (much less another human being) and then lobbies the public for assistance when he realizes his ticket to hell is fast approaching.

Hopefully, he is sweating profuslly when they walk him to the gurney.

[MXB]

Whilst we encourage anyone who wishes to do so to post their own opinions in our forum, nevertheless attacks upon other posters are discouraged.

Unless you know gellibee or myself you have no idea of how familiar we are with this and other cases 'he needs to' and therefore in future perhaps you should refrain from directing negative comments to us and other posters personally.

In any case, I think that you missed the point, this is not about empathy, and no one is denying how vile and horrific Siebert's crimes were, but rather that many of us are against the death penalty, without exception. This does not mean that we lack compassion towards the suffering of those two little boys, or of the many other innocent victims of Siebert and others of his ilk.

Without even seeing the crime scene photos, the majority of people would find Siebert's actions to be repulsive, but although much as you and many others might not like to accept it, Siebert is a human being too, nobody ever said that human beings were all good and decent, many including Daniel Siebert are not.

The man is a sociopath and as such lacks the ability to feel things as we do, and will almost certainly be incapable of feeling any guilt or remorse over the killings. Of course Siebert wants to prolong his own life, for a sociopath nothing matters other than himself, but it is unlikely that walking to the gurney or the prospect of being executed will affect him overly, he lacks the emotional capacity for that to occur.

MXB

[nana]

Daniel lee siebert should of been put to death 20 years ago. Linda, Sherry,Linda, Joesph, Chad are only 5 but what about my mother, & several others & then others we don't know about. Or Is this just something we need to except.....They ought to let us the families put him to death as he did our loved ones."All women" "Never men" doesn't that tell you what a man he is.

[carolinem]

None of us who have not been through such an horrendous loss as you have Nana can truly understand your feelings, all we can do is empathize with you, and hope and pray that you will eventually find some peace.

Siebert has at least fourteen known victims, his first acknowledged victim was an adult male and it is believed that he killed several other men, as well as the two little boys, Chad and Joseph. The majority of victims of serial killers are female because of their greater vulnerability. Many serial killers target prostitutes as they are prepared to get into cars or go to deserted places with strangers.

[Vicki]

I don't understand those who believe that taking a life for a life will make anything better for those victims' families. I don't believe it does not unless they are not true believers in the Word of God. Their satisfaction obviously comes from being vengeful but I say don't let hate hold you hostage because it can and it will. You will accomplish nothing by revenge, and you will still have that ache of the missing family member long after Danny Lee is gone. There are other victims in this matter, and they had nothing to do with what happened as well. His son & daughter and his grandchildren, they having feelings about this situation also. It has to be painful for them to read and hear all the ugly things that people say. furthermore, pancreatic cancer is more punishment then you can imagine (my mother died from this), and I believe that this is punishment in itself especially since it hasn't been as rapidly progressing as this type of cancer normally is. I believe that Danny has remorse, knows and understands his perdicament. To all of you who are so offended by Danny's action, I pray that you find a God that will forgive you when that final day comes for you. You must learn to forgive before God will forgive you, so I say this don't look for a place in the sky because you'll no doubt join Danny wherever he may be. The years he has spent on death row has been part of the punishment, and only someone who has had the experience can speak on that. Leave him alone regardless of how he leaves this earth, he will leave as we all will. What you wish on him just may be yours to do.

Vicki (Danny's son's mother)

[carolinem]

Thank you for posting this Vicki.

As a religiously observant person and a strong opponent of the death penalty I agree with you that this punishment is wrong. Daniel Siebert is a very sick man, and I firmly believe that his fate should be left in the hands of God, and not a vengeful Alabama.

May you and yours be blessed.

Caroline Mason

[kimbylee]

As a close friend of Daniel Siebert's I empathise with his family and those who care for him. regardless of what Daniel did some twenty or so years ago, he is terminally ill, and this execution is wrong. Where is our humanity if we can kill a dying man?

Vicki if you read this please pass on my love to Daniel and thank him for being my friend.

I would like very much to contact you personally, so could you send me a message through here to which I could reply?

Kimmy