On Wednesday evening after two decades of legal battles, a hearing that pitted loved ones against one another and a last-ditch appeal to the Supreme Court — Donnie Lance was executed for the murders of his ex-wife and her boyfriend.

For many, the 65-year-old Georgia man’s death by lethal injection was long-overdue justice for a brutal crime. Prosecutors said he beat his former spouse so badly with the butt of a shotgun that her face could not be recognized and that he bragged later to an inmate about an eyeball “stuck to the wall.”

But Joy and Donnie Lance’s children, stuck loving both victim and convicted killer, have never stopped believing the father who cried and insisted to them days after the crime in 1997, “I didn’t do it, I didn’t do it.” And even if he did, they say, they wanted their dad alive.

“He’s the only thing we had left of a parent,” said 34-year-old Stephanie Cape, who drove two hours each way every three weeks to visit him on death row — where Donnie Lance would sit his 2-year-old granddaughter in his lap and give her sips of his D...

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why wouldnt the kids beg the court for forgiveness? they already lost ONE parent, they are not ready to lose another (no matter how much a demon he is)...

sadly, DEATH is what he deserved!

Suffer not a witch to live.

Lol sometimes the law is just overrated. What's the point of the punishment twenty years after the crime

In my own opinion, the kids begged the court for forgiveness because they would want to avenge their mother's death since they know their late Mother's murderer.

Ewedu nd Amala at it again,
Wickedness