02/24/2021
The gruesome details, with pictures of accused and dead, are available at the UK Daily Mail [Cannibal, 41, cut out his neighbor’s heart and COOKED it with potatoes to feed his family before stabbing his uncle and a four-year-old girl to death, February 24, 2021] but the basic details are available, with races removed, in the AP story with no pictures:
CHICKASHA, Okla. — An Oklahoma man who had been released early from prison in January as part of a mass commutation effort is now accused of three killings, including the death of a neighbour whose heart he cut out, authorities said.
A judge denied bail Tuesday for Lawrence Paul Anderson, who faces three counts of first-degree murder, one count of assault and one count of maiming for the attack this month in Chickasha, about 35 miles (55 kilometres) southwest of Oklahoma City.
According to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, Anderson is accused of killing a Andrea Lynn Blankenship, 41, and cutting out her heart. Authorities say Anderson brought the heart to his aunt and uncle’s house, cooked it with potatoes and tried to serve it to them before killing Leon Pye, 67, wounding the aunt and killing Kaeos Yates, the pair’s 4-year-old granddaughter. [Emphases added throughout]
Oklahoma man released early from prison accused in 3 deaths,February 24, 2021
Anderson is black, Andrea Lynn Blankenship was white. The uncle, the aunt (stabbed in both eyes, but alive) and the little girl he killed are all black. Neither the Daily Mail nor the AP story uses the words "white" or "black" but at least the Daily Mail has pictures.
The AP goes on to explain that Anderson, who was supposed to be prison until about 2037, was released to commit this gruesome crime because of George Floydism, AKA "criminal justice reform".
Anderson sobbed in court during an initial court appearance Tuesday, The Oklahoman reported.“I don’t want no bail, your honour. I don’t want no bail,” he said.
Anderson’s attorney, Al Hoch, indicated that he will seek a mental evaluation to determine whether Anderson is competent to stand trial.
Anderson had been sentenced in 2017 to 20 years in prison for probation violations on a drug case, the newspaper reported. Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt commuted the sentence last year to nine years in prison, and Anderson was released after serving a little more than three years.
Grady County District Attorney Jason Hicks criticized the criminal justice reform that led to the commutations of hundreds of Oklahoma inmates.
“It is time that we do better,” Hicks said. “If we have the highest incarceration rate in the world, OK. We can look at our citizens and be honest with them and tell them that you’re safe. I can’t tell the people in my district today that they’re safe.”
Stitt’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday.
Jason Nelson, Oklahoma’s interim secretary for public safety, has said that the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board recommended commutation for Anderson on a 3-1 vote.
This reminds me very much of the Willie Horton case, the entire point of which was not the black rapist and murderer (Horton) who had been dealth with by the Massachusetts authorities who had imprisoned him for life for the murder of a white male teenager. The point was that a Democratic governor, Presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, had let him out.
But now, in the era of George Floyd, it’s Republican governors doing it.
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