William Emmett Lacroi (0) was appointed to the U.S. Army in March 2004 for the Northern District of Georgia. He was found guilty of manslaughter by a jury in district court.
Lacroy’s lawyers filed a lawsuit against the U.S. on Tuesday. Appealed to the Supreme Court for the death penalty, but the court rejected the request in the first instance following the death of Judge Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
U.S. According to the Department of Justice, Lacroye assassinated John Lee Tysler in 2001 while he was trying to flee the country.
Lacroy entered Tysler’s home while the nurse was away and then “attacked her, tied her hands behind her back, strangled her with an electric cord, and raped her. He then stabbed her in the neck with a knife.” And attacked the 30-year-old Tysler with a knife. “Back five times,” says DOJ Release.
In an appellant summary filed in 2013, Lacroy’s attorneys hired a psychiatrist to evaluate Lacroy. During the exam, Lacroy told the psychiatrist, “He believed that John Tysler was the babysitter who sexually abused him twenty years ago and blamed the babysitter for many of his adult problems.
“Because of his belief in witchcraft, the defendant (Lacroy) believes that the person who looked after the child cast a spell on him when the parents were out, and he must force the babysitter (Ms. Tysler) to reverse the spell.”
Lacroy, who is on probation release after 10 years in state and federal prisons for child molestation, legal rape, burglary and aggravated assault, stole Teiser’s vehicle and drove to the Canadian border where he was arrested.
“His guilt and conviction were upheld on appeal, and his requests for collateral relief were denied by every court considering him.”
If Lacroy dies Tuesday from a lethal injection, it will be the sixth federal enforcement since the Justice Department completed a 17-year interval on the practice in July.
Attorney General William Barre said the death penalty would resume in 2019 under the Trump administration.
“The Department of Justice upholds the rule of law – and we are committed to upholding the punishment imposed by our justice system on victims and their families,” he said.
Under Bar’s direction, the Federal Execution Protocol Edindum replaces a procedure using three drugs with a pentobarbital, in a news release.
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