A new Chron Eye for the Death Row Killer Guy!

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Allan Turner offers up a Chron Eye for the Death Row Killer Guy* today.

The Death Row Killer Guy’s lawyer declined to talk to the Chronicle, and the newspaper could not reach members of the victim’s family, so Turner was reduced to building this Chron Eye from court testimony:

Cathey’s sister, Charlotte Ezeh, testified that the killer was pampered at home. But his mother, Willie Lee Cathey, told jurors that the family’s home life was tumultuous, with her husband drinking, using drugs and accosting family members with firearms.

Cathey married at 17 and fathered two children, jurors were told.

Luke Ezeh, Cathey’s now former brother-in-law, said he employed the killer in his battery shop.

“He was a very good guy,” Ezeh said. “He sold batteries and kept the money and never took anything from me. I don’t think he deserves to die. He made a mistake, but he should be corrected, not put to death.”

Ezeh said Cathey was a musician whose partner had absconded with a recording. “He was trying to locate him through the girl and things got out of hand,” he said. “That is what I heard. I was not there.”

In a death row interview, Cathey insisted he had spent the night of the murder watching television with his girlfriend.

“I am not guilty of the crime,” Cathey said. “I never met the woman.”

The killer admitted he had been convicted of an earlier drug offense, but said he had never served prison time.

Upon arriving on death row, he said, he was “very fearful.”

“I knew that I didn’t do anything,” he said. “I had a sense of hopelessness. … I had seen guys who had gone off to their executions.”

Now, he added, “I play it by ear. I’m praying to God to work things out.”

We trust that He will.

This Chron Eye does continue the very recent practice of working in the term “Huntsville death house,” which the author/editors would surely deny is subtle editorializing** (despite the fact it tends to be used — derisively — by those opposed to the death penalty).

Why a shrinking business with declining readership continues to expend so many resources on pet political causes favored by the editor’s wife is an ongoing mystery.

* The ongoing Chron series in which the newspaper portrays some of our area’s most heinous criminals as sympathetic figures. The pieces usually do not mention that Chron editor Jeff Cohen’s wife is a noted anti-death-penalty crusader.

** We are inclined to agree. It doesn’t seem that subtle or clever at all.

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