The South Carolina judge decided that most of the laws are unconstitutional and that citizens have the absolute right to defend their property to death is not proof that he is mentally incompetent and should be enforced.
This ruling clears the road to kill Steven Bixby for the murder of two police officers who came to his family Abbeville’s home to discuss the dispute between their construction crews, which came to expand the road. BIXBY lawyers may ask for appeal.
The State Supreme Court suspended Bixby’s execution weeks before he could plan and asked a lower court to decide whether his beliefs about the legal system did not allow him to help his lawyers because they appealed his death penalty.
Judge notes that Bixby helps his lawyers
Judge Scott Sprouse, in his ruling, noted at the end of last week, noted that Bixby cooperates with his lawyers and psychiatrists healing and interviewing him.
Although Bixby “often disagreed with a lawyer and expresses his distrust of his strategy in this process, evidence shows that he understands their role, justification of why they are engaged in this competence process and that he can choose whether to cooperate with them,” wrote Sprouse.
Experts testified that Bixby is not going to abandon his beliefs about laws and the Constitution, and he is ready to die as a martyr if his appeal fails (South Carolina Correctional Department via AP)
Bixby’s family killed officers then shot hundreds of bullets
Danny Wilson, a 58 -year -old Bixby, shot a deputy of Abbeville County when the officer knocks on the door of his parents’ home in 2003. December, the day after they threatened the road crew, the authorities said.
They dragged Wilson’s dying body inward and restrained it with their handcuffs. They then killed the state Constab Donnie Ouzts because he and other officers attacked home after realizing that Wilson had disappeared about an hour. This led to a 12 -hour retreat when officers and Bixbys shot hundreds of bullets, the investigators said.
Bixby’s parents were also accused of murder, but died behind bars.
Hearing experts said Bixby firmly claims about their beliefs
Last month, the judge held a hearing to find out if Bixby was competent. The experts were testified on both sides. One of which Bixby’s lawyers named claimed that prison insulation only worsened his beliefs and that Bixby is stuck in thinking that never grew up.
However, the judge accepted more weight with those named by the state, noted that two of them encountered the Bixby from the massacre shortly after the massacre and although Bixby was angry at their testimony of his mental state until he realized they had a job.
These experts testified that Bixby is not going to abandon his beliefs about laws and the Constitution, and he is ready to die as a martyr if his appeal fails. They said Bixby thinks he would be united with his parents in heaven.
A psychiatrist seeing and healing the death penalty prisoners in South Carolina said that Bixby summed up his mental state to him as “I’m not crazy. I’m not a mental health case. I can be (exemplary) but I’m not crazy.”
Bixby sends his proposal to the judge
After the meeting, Bibxy sent a handwritten proposal to the judge. He repeated his long -time conviction that his family had been justified to kill Wilson because the deputy tried to help take their land. He also offered a betrayal of a judge if he did not stop his execution and release him to release it.
“I’m an innocent man !! Let Freedom Rings and let those who make betrayal, swing !!” Bixby wrote. “Like Thomas Jefferson: I stand on the principle even if I separate alone.”