{"id":57650,"date":"2015-01-13T13:01:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T18:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57650"},"modified":"2015-01-13T13:17:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T18:17:58","slug":"kyle-dinkhellers-murderers-execution-is-a-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57650","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Dinkheller\u2019s murderer’s execution is a “go”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andy11M sends us a link to Reuters<\/a> which reports that Andrew Brannan, the Vietnam veteran we talked about<\/a> the other day will be executed on schedule tonight;<\/p>\n

The execution of Andrew Brannan, 66, by lethal injection is set for 7 p.m. on Tuesday. He is slated to be the first person executed in the United States in 2015, the Death Penalty Information Center said.<\/p>\n

Brannan’s lawyers asked the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles to commute his sentence to life without parole because he was suffering from a combat-related mental disorder when he killed Laurens County Deputy Sheriff Kyle Dinkheller, 22, during a traffic stop in 1998.<\/p>\n

The board said in a statement it denied the clemency request after thoroughly reviewing it and hearing testimony on Monday.<\/p>\n

Brannan still has appeals pending in Georgia courts. By law, Georgia’s governor does not have the power to grant last-minute clemency to a death row inmate.<\/p>\n

The inmate’s lawyers do not dispute he shot Dinkheller nine times during a traffic stop in an encounter caught on tape by the deputy’s patrol car camera.<\/p>\n

But they urged the parole board to consider the physical and mental toll of his combat duty in Vietnam. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m not a big advocate for the death penalty, but this guy deserves it if anyone does. PTS doesn’t make veterans act like fools. I don’t doubt that this peckerwood has mental problems, but they’re not related to his experiences in combat.<\/p>\n

In case you forgot, here’s the video again;<\/p>\n