{"id":57594,"date":"2015-01-11T13:29:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T18:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57594"},"modified":"2015-01-11T13:29:34","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T18:29:34","slug":"kyle-dinkhellers-murderer-faces-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57594","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Dinkheller&#8217;s murderer faces execution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.liveleak.com\/ll_embed?f=9459b3e96735\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the video of Sheriff Deputy Kyle Dinkheller when he was murdered on Jan. 12, 1998 by Andrew H. Brannanon a country road in Georgia when Brannanon was pulled over for driving at about 100 miles per hour. Now, Brannanon is due to be executed on Tuesday for his actions. But, his lawyer is trying to get a stay to the execution on the grounds that he suffers from &#8220;PTSD&#8221; from his service in Vietnam, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/checkpoint\/wp\/2015\/01\/11\/ptsd-police-altercations-and-the-case-of-vietnam-veteran-and-convicted-killer-andrew-brannan\/\">Washington Post<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His lawyers, L. Joseph Loveland Jr. and Brian S. Kammer, said in a recent petition to the Georgia Board Of Pardons And Paroles that the jury who found Brannan guilty in 2000 never heard all the facts of the veteran\u2019s combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental illnesses.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAndrew\u2019s combat experience forever altered his personality and his life,\u201d his lawyers say in the most recent petition. \u201cAlthough he initially re-entered civilian life, he soon began to manifest signs of serious mental illness, which grew worse over time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe terrible toll of combat is not an excuse for violent criminal conduct, but it is entirely appropriate for the Board to consider these facts in assessing the retribution that society demands<br \/>\nfor the criminal conduct that is triggered by mental illness resulting from combat,\u201d the petition says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure that the defense will have trouble finding a specialist in the realm of post-traumatic stress which will classify the behavior I saw in that video a result of that disorder. In fact, anyone who hides behind their military service as an explanation for their bad behavior, as Brannanon did when he yelled that he is a &#8220;goddamn Vietnam combat veteran,&#8221; probably suffers from something not related to that service.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, he wasn&#8217;t suffering from flashbacks or anything related to his service while he was doing his little dance routine. The Post tries to make it look as if the deputy escalated the situation, but it was all that murderer&#8217;s fault &#8211; the deputy showed great restraint, which cost him his life.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the video of Sheriff Deputy Kyle Dinkheller when he was murdered on Jan. 12, 1998 &hellip; <a title=\"Kyle Dinkheller&#8217;s murderer faces execution\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57594\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kyle Dinkheller&#8217;s murderer faces execution<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}