Georgia executes death row prisoner J. W. Ledford Jr. J. W. Ledford Jr., was given the lethal injection at 1. Jackson, Georgia, on Wednesday A smiling murderer quoted Cool Hand Luke in his final words before being killed in the first execution of the year in Georgia. J. W. Ledford Jr., was given the lethal injection at 1. Jackson and when asked if he had any last words, he delivered a line from the movie about a prisoner who refused to conform to rules in jail.'What we have here is a failure to communicate. 'Some men you just can't reach,' he said. 'I am not the failure.

You are the failure to communicate.''You can kiss my white trash a**,' he added, continuing to smile. Hours earlier, the US Supreme Court had turned down requests from his lawyers for a final minute stay. Ledford Jr., 4. Dr. Harry Johnston, who he stabbed to death.  As the warden exited the execution chamber at 1: 0.

Ledford began talking again, but the microphones had been cut off so his words weren't audible to witnesses. Records from past executions show that the lethal drug generally starts flowing within a couple of minutes of the warden exiting the execution chamber. Ledford raised his head to look at his right arm right after the warden left and about a minute later appeared to speak to a guard to his right. He then rested his head, closed his eyes and appeared to take several deep breaths before falling still within two or three minutes of the warden leaving the room. The prisoner was given the lethal injection at the the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center in Jackson, Georgia in a death chamber similar to the one shown above He had been scheduled to die at 7pm on Tuesday but the 1. The prisoner's final meal totaled a whopping 5,0.

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It consisted of filet mignon wrapped in bacon with pepper jack cheese, large french fries, 1. Sprite. His earlier request to be executed by firing squad was also turned down last week. He feared the injection would leave him 'in agony' and that it would be 'unconstitutionally painful'. In a statement released shortly after 1. Wednesday, Georgia's Office of the Attorney General said: 'The lawfully ordered execution of J.

W. Ledford, Jr. for the 1. Dr. Harry Buchanan Johnston, Jr.

Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center in Jackson, Georgia.'The sentence was carried out after the United States Supreme Court denied Ledford's request for a stay of execution.' Ledford previously told police he had gone to Johnston's home on January 3. After the older man accused him of stealing and smacked him, Ledford pulled out a knife and stabbed Johnston to death. The pathologist who did the autopsy said the victim suffered 'one continuous or two slices to the neck' and bled to death. Ledford dragged the victim's body to another part of Johnston's property and covered it up.

The killer then went to Johnston's house with a knife and demanded money from the wife of the man he had just murdered. He took money and four guns from the home, tied up Johnston's wife and left in Johnston's truck. He was arrested later that day. There were protests outside the State Capitol on Tuesday as his scheduled execution date approached LEDFORD'S LAST MEAL - CALORIESFilet mignon wrapped in bacon (6oz) - approximately 3. Pepper jack cheese (1oz) - approximately 1. Blooming onion (1) - approximately 1,9. Large french fries (5. Fried pork chops (1. Watch Horton Hears A Who! Putlocker there.

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Chicken tenders with sauce (1. Pecan pie (1 slice) - approximately 4. Vanilla ice cream  (. Sherbet (. 5 cup) - approximately 1.

Sprite (2. 1oz) - approximately 1. Total -  4,9. 44 calories. Sources: My Fitness Pal, Fat. Secret. com Ledford told police he had a number of beers and smoked a couple joints in the hours before the killing. Ledford's lawyers had asked the parole board to spare him, citing a rough childhood, substance abuse from an early age and his intellectual disability. After a hearing Monday, the board declined to grant clemency. Following its normal practice, the board did not give a reason for its denial.

Because of changes in brain chemistry caused by a drug Ledford has been taking for chronic nerve pain for more than a decade, there is a high risk that the pentobarbital Georgia plans to use to execute him will not render him unconscious and devoid of sensation or feeling, his lawyers wrote in a federal lawsuit filed Thursday. That would violate the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment enshrined in the Eighth Amendment of the U. S. Constitution, the lawsuit says.

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When challenging an execution method on those grounds, a U. S. Supreme Court precedent requires inmates to propose a known and available alternative. Ledford's lawyers, therefore, proposed that he be executed by firing squad, a method that is not allowed under Georgia law. A woman protests outside the State Capitol building in Georgia ahead of J.

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W. Ledford Jr's execution He died at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center in Jackson, Georgia, on Wednesday A federal judge dismissed the lawsuit, saying Ledford's attorneys had failed to show that execution by pentobarbital would be 'sure or very likely' to cause him extreme pain as required by U. S. Supreme Court precedent. U. S. District Judge Steve Jones also said the decision to wait until just a few days before his execution date to file the lawsuit suggested a stalling tactic. Ledford was only 2. Dr. Harry Johnston, whom he had known all of his life Ledford's lawyers appealed to the 1. U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals and asked that court to temporarily halt the execution. A three- judge panel on Monday rejected that request.  Ledford's lawyers had also asked a state court judge to halt the execution because he was only 2. Johnston. Just as juvenile offenders are considered less culpable and not the 'worst of the worst' for whom the death penalty is reserved, the execution of those under 2.

Ledford's lawyers argue. A Butts County Superior Court judge rejected that petition, and Ledford's lawyers have appealed to the state Supreme Court. The Georgia Supreme Court, later Tuesday, rejected the appeal of the lower court refusal to stop the execution. The state executed nine inmates last year, more than any other state and the most Georgia had executed in a single calendar year since the U. S. Supreme Court allowed the death penalty to resume 4.

WATCH OSCARS 9. 0th ACADEMY AWARDS 2. Get live stream online hd free news update the 2. Oscar, including nominations, winners, predictions and red carpet fashion on Sunday Feb 2. PM ETWith Sundance and Cannes behind us and a ton of high profile movies ahead, Anne Thompson takes a look at this year’s Oscar contenders. It’s early days yet, we know.

But awards season 2. Sundance, and came into further focus at Cannes. Check out our early speculation, based on festival play, credible filmmakers, promising ensembles and Oscar- savvy distributors, of what might be in store when the next award season rolls around in the fall of 2. Oscar Predictions: Best Picture. Oscar Predictions: Best Director. Oscar Predictions: Best Actor.

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Oscar Predictions: Best Original Screenplay. Oscar Predictions: Best Adapted Screenplay. Oscar Predictions: Best Foreign- Language Film. Sundance 2. 01. 7 introduced the first potential feature contenders: Michael Showalter’s big Amazon Studios sale, “The Big Sick,” a true romance starring writer- actor Kumail Nanjiani, as well as Geremy Jasper’s New Jersey rap musical “Patti Cake$” (Fox Searchlight), starring breakout Australian actress Danielle Macdonald and returning veteran Cathy Moriarty (“Raging Bull”), which also played Cannes, and Sony Pictures Classics’ elegiac gay romance “Call Me By Your Name,” directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Armie Hammer and “Homeland” breakout Timothée Chalamet as summer lovers, and stalwart Michael Stuhlbarg as the teenager’s father. We shall see how Netflix will campaign for the $1.

Dee Rees’ post- World War II southern drama “Mudbound” starring Jason Clarke, Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hudland, Jason Mitchell and an unrecognizable Mary J. Blige. Adapted by Rees and Virgil Williams from Hillary Jordan’s 2. Rees and cinematographer Rachel Morrison executed sweeping, gorgeous cinema with disciplined precision. The burgeoning streaming service plans a day- and- date release in a limited number of theaters to qualify for the Oscars. Performers grabbing notice at Sundance included Melissa Leo, who steals Maggie Betts’ good- nuns- gone- bad movie “Novitiate” (Sony Pictures Classics); and following last year’s Sundance sleeper “I’ll See You in My Dreams,” Sam Elliott returned in another Brett Haley film, “The Hero” (The Orchard), delivering a moving lead performance as a 7. Get out your handkerchiefs.

Among the documentaries, Matthew Heineman followed his Oscar- nominated border drug war thriller “Cartel Land” with another daring and timely non- fiction, Amazon’s “City of Ghosts.” Any footage from Syria came from the fearless Raqqa journalists he tracks through Turkey and Germany, where they discover that they are not necessarily safe — anywhere. Netflix’s “Icarus” comes from marathon biker Bryan Fogel, who stumbled upon a riveting global scoop: the Russian Olympic doping scandal. Also acquired by Netflix is U. S. Documentary- winner “Chasing Coral,” a heartrending, eye- popping follow- up to Jeff Orlowski’s “Chasing Ice,” similarly documenting the technological feats required to go underwater to film the process of vivid live coral reefs succumbing to warm- water temperatures, as well as Kitty Green’s beauty contest expose “Casting Jon.

Benet.”Well- reviewed Julian Assange expose “Risk” (Neon/Showtime), Laura Poitras’s follow- up to Oscar- winner “Citizenfour,” should also factor in the documentary race. Early 2. 01. 7 releases include Jordan Peele’s brainy Hitchcockian thriller “Get Out,” among the best- reviewed of the year; Universal is pushing it hard, hoping that its genre elements won’t prevent it from scoring anything beyond a well- deserved nod for screenplay. James Mangold delivers an R- rated Marvel family smash with “Logan,” a stylish reinvention of the superhero genre made possible by Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart, who were willing to close out their roles as Wolverine and Charles Xavier, respectively.

Cannes 2. 01. 7 delivered a handful of contenders. Civil War melodrama “The Beguiled” (June 2. Focus Features) scored a Best Director win for Cannes regular Sofia Coppola, only the second woman to take home the prize. Her star Nicole Kidman won a special award for four varying performances at the festival; she’s most likely to land her fifth nomination for “The Beguiled” as the resilient Southern girls school headmistress; also strong are lead actor Colin Farrell as a manipulative wounded Irish Union soldier, and supporting actress Kirsten Dunst as the gullible teacher he woos.

The period film is elegantly crafted. Assuming all goes well, writer- director Coppola, Kidman and Dunst could eventually land nominations; technical nods are most likely, for cinematographer Philippe Le Sourd and more possible down the line. Todd Haynes follows up “Carol” with “Wonderstruck” (November 1.

Amazon/Roadside Attractions), an ambitious weaving of the two story threads in rookie screenwriter Brian Selznick’s adaptation of his own graphic novel which wowed Cannes critics and audiences (though not the jury) with its cinematic prowess. It was a daunting task, wedding a black- and- white 1. Millicent Simmonds and Haynes regular Julianne Moore with a 1. Haynes’ cinematic skills are perfectly suited to this story about lonely children in peril, seeking answers as they wind their way to the Museum of Natural History in New York. The Academy crafts will hum over rock- star costume designer Sandy Powell, cinematographer Ed Lachman’s evocation of two distinct time periods, Mark Friedberg’s detailed production design, and Carter Burwell’s sensitive score, which carries the movie along with its intricate sound design, and makes it sing. Again, Amazon and Roadside Attractions, which collaborated effectively on “Manchester By the Sea,” will need to find an audience for the film as well as critical support — after Cannes, “Wonderstruck” sits at 7.

Metacritic, but may do better stateside. Also from Amazon is Lynne Ramsay’s hardboiled hitman drama “You Were Never Really Here,” starring a beefy Joaquin Phoenix as a suicidal hitman experiencing an existential crisis. This exercise in style will have a tough time getting past the Academy’s resistance to small- scale indie violence.

Goodfellas,” “Mean Streets” and “The Departed” rode a surge of critical success to overcome their gangster genre origins. Thrice- nominated Phoenix and Best Actor Cannes winner could score a fourth Oscar slot as a sad sack freelance killer.

Following their Oscar win with “Moonlight,” A2. Cannes hit “The Florida Project,” writer- director Sean Baker’s follow- up to “Tangerine,” using the model of “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” which debuted in Sundance and went on to ride strong Cannes buzz and the fall festival circuit to four nominations, including Best Picture, Writer, Director, and Actress Quvenzhane Wallis.

She’s a precursor to “Florida Project”‘s 6- year- old diminutive breakout Brooklynn Prince. Baker’s slice of life along Orlando’s budget motels also relies on twice- nominated Willem Dafoe (“Platoon,” “Shadow of the Vampire”), who is long overdue for award recognition. His humane and paternal motel owner is the glue that holds together this poverty- row drama. Honey Movie Watch Online on this page.