Kentucky Executes Child-Killer Marco Allen Chapmen Who Asked for Death

Chapman Execution Day Arrives
Killer scheduled to die tonight
Friday, November 21, 2008

EDDYVILLE, Ky. -- Marco Allen Chapman has arrived at the end of the road in Kentucky's penal system. Barring a last-minute stay, the confessed child killer will be executed tonight for the murders of two children.

Marco Chapman fired his attorneys and ended all appeals in his attempt to be put to death for his crimes. He pleaded guilty to the 2002 attack on a Gallatin County family.

Chapman entered a home in Warsaw, Kentucky and stabbed to death 6-year-old Cody Sharon and his 7-year-old sister, Chelbi. Their mother, Carolyn Marksberry, and her daughter, 10-year-old Courtney, survived the attack. Chapman is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the Kentucky State Penitentiary at 7 o'clock Central Time tonight (8 p.m. Eastern).

There have been 164 men executed at the prison since 1911. All but one died in the electric chair. The last execution in Kentucky took place in 1999 when Eddie Lee Harper received a lethal injection.

Nine reporters have been chosen to witness Chapman's execution. The victims' family is also allowed to watch. Chapman has declined to choose his own witnesses.

The Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty has organized several vigils across the state tonight. They will be in Louisville, Bowling Green, Owensboro, Berea, at the penitentiary in Eddyville and outside the governor's mansion in Frankfort.

Kentucky Executes Child-Killer Who Asked for Death

Friday, November 21, 2008

EDDYVILLE, Ky. — Kentucky has executed a confessed child-killer who resisted all appeals.
In the state's first execution in nine years, 37-year-old Marco Allen Chapman was given a lethal injection Friday at the Kentucky State Penitentiary. He was pronounced dead at 7:34 p.m. CST.

Chapman pleaded guilty in 2004 to killing two children in their northern Kentucky home in a 2002 attack that wounded their mother and another child. He asked to be put to death and fought for the right to fire his attorneys to clear the way.

I'm glad he's dead. He murdered in cold blood:

Cody Sharon, 6 year old son murdered, in first grade

Chelbi Sharon, 7 year old daughter murdered, in second grade.

Carolyn Marksberry, their mom wounded
Courtney Sharon, 10 year old daughter wounded