Wilcher: Killer finally runs out of time
Thursday, October 19th, 2006Ink in the morning papers over the execution of confessed killer Bobby Glen Wilcher:
Jack Elliott Jr. of The Associated Press: A Mississippi man was executed by lethal injection Wednesday for fatally stabbing two women he led home from a bar in 1982. Bobby Glen Wilcher, 43, died at 6:42 p.m. at the state penitentiary, hours after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene…
Jimmie Gates reporting for The Clarion-Ledger: Family members of two Scott County women brutally murdered by Bobby Glen Wilcher hugged corrections officials after Wilcher was executed Wednesday evening at the Mississippi State Penitentiary. It took 24 years for Wilcher’s execution to be carried out, but it took only about 11 minutes for him to die by lethal injection for the 1982 slayings of Katie Bell Moore and Velma Odell Noblin. Both mothers were stabbed more than 20 times each…
Chris Allen Baker in the Scott County Times of Forest, the local paper that has covered the Wilcher case for a quarter century: Wilcher’s last hope of a reprieve was void when word came at approximately 4:30 p.m. that the U.S. Supreme Court had denied Wilcher’s final appeal, clearing the way for the execution and ending more than two decades of state and federal appeals. Gov. Haley Barbour had said he would not halt the execution...
Clarion-Ledger Perspective editor Sid Salter, who twice interviewed Wilcher while he served on Death Row: It was in this building - Unit 17, the old death row that is now used only for executions - that I interviewed Wilcher in 1985 and again in 1988. In this decaying old building 18 years ago he told me he stabbed Velma Odell Noblin and Katie Bell Moore on a deserted U.S. Forest Service road on a rainy night in 1982 because “it felt good…“
