In my previous post, I described the case of Timothy Shaun Stemple in considerable detail and voiced my opposition to his execution. Having thought further about his case, I decide to once again voice my opposition, this time more briefly and more forcefully. Consider this my Reader's Digest version.





There is no doubt that Trisha Stemple was murdered. She had apparently been lured to the side of the road and there killed by being bludgeoned with a baseball bat and/or run over by a car.





There is no doubt that her husband, Shaun Stemple, had nearly a million dollars of insurance on her life. There is no doubt that Shaun was having an affair with Dani Wood.





There is no doubt that Dani Woods' cousin, Terry Hunt, actively participated in the murder. Hunt claims he was contracted by Shaun Temple to murder Trisha Stemple, and that Shaun bludgeoned Trisha with a baseball bat. Shaun Stemple argues that Dani Woods' contracted with her cousin to murder Trisha Stemple, and that he had nothing to do with his wife's death.





Based on Hunt's purchased testimony, and on the purchased testimony of a bevy of jailhouse snitches, the people of Oklahoma convicted Shaun Stemple of capital murder. There is no physical evidence to tie him to the crime. He was convicted entirely on the testimony of disreputable people who benefited from testifying against him.





Even the evidence in the appellate court summary of the case is sufficient to see that both the alleged accomplice and the snitch consortium lied. This is particularly startling since the appellate summaries are, by law, written from a perspective most favorable to the State.





I'll first discuss some testimony from Terry Hunt I find to be obviously false, repeating some of what I wrote yesterday.





When I first read the appellate decision, I said "No way!" to myself when I read of the violence that allegedly had to be inflicted on Trisha Stemple before she lost consciousness. Allow me to summarize:





"Hunt came up behind Trisha and hit her in the head with the bat."





"The blow did not render Trisha unconscious."





"Stemple took the bat and hit her several more times."





"Stemple and Hunt then placed Trisha's head in front of the tire of the pickup and attempted to run over her head."





"The tire would not roll over Trisha's head so her head was pushed along the pavement."





"After this, Trisha tied to get up."





"Stemple grabbed the bat and hit her several more times."





"The pair then placed Trisha's body under the truck and drove over her chest."





"Trisha rose up on her elbows."





"Stemple hit her again several times with the bat." (Total number of blows to the head with the bat was allegedly 30 to 40.)





"Stemple and Hunt left in the pickup, but decided to turn around to make sure Trisha was dead."





"They noticed that she had crawled into the grass beside the road."





"Stemple then sped up and ran over Trisha as she lay in the grass."





Even Bruce Willis would have succumbed to less violence than Trisha Stemple allegedly withstood.





Couple the unlikelihood of Trisha's alleged durability with the ever-changing story of the star witness, and the situation becomes absurd. Even the prosecutor commented to the judge that "I don't know [if] anything coming out of this guy's mouth is going to be consistent."





If a person's testimony is so pervasively inconsistent, we have another name for that. It's called perjury. The jury and the appellate courts elected to believe those portions of Terry Hunt's testimony that were not inconsistent, and ignore all the inconsistencies / perjuries. This, ladies and gentlemen, is not a valid basis for executing someone.





www.freeshaun.com . First the image, then the explanation. I now present an image from the stellar web siteFirst the image, then the explanation.









On the left is the autopsy sketch for Richard Yost, who was killed in another, unrelated murder. Yost was in fact hit in the back of the head 30 times. The fatal beating was recorded on video. The damage to Yost's head is what can be expected from such a beating.





On the right is the autopsy sketch for Trisha Stemple. In the Stemple case, the State's star witness (and the only alleged eye-witness) testified that he and Shaun Stemple had struck Trisha Stemple in the back of her head more than 30 times, perhaps as many as 40 times. He perjured himself when he so claimed. It is obvious from his testimony. It is obvious from the sketch.





Quite simply, the State of Oklahoma purchased Hunt's testimony in exchange for his life. Hunt is now apparently on a probation list as Stemple is scheduled to be executed in four days.





www.freeshaun.com site for an accident reconstruction of how Trisha Stemple more likely died. See the site also for a discussion of Stemple's absurd confession given to the State's covey of snitches. No one confesses to fellow inmates by putting it in writing and beginning with " I [your name here] ... did with malice aforethought murder [someone]." The freeshaun site provides evidence that Shaun's family and children were indeed being threatened by the State's snitches. In this case, the people of Oklahoma may have been party to threatening Stemple's children and extorting their grandparents, and yet they still insist on executing Stemple based on the testimony of a confessed murderer and ruthless jailhouse snitches. See thesite for an accident reconstruction of how Trisha Stemple more likely died. See the site also for a discussion of Stemple's absurd confession given to the State's covey of snitches. No one confesses to fellow inmates by putting it in writing and beginning with "





Here is something I did not mention last night. There was a witness who drove by the crime scene perhaps just before the crime was committed. That witness saw two people standing by the truck that was used in the murder. One person was Terry Hunt. The other was a large man wearing faded blue jeans. That other person was not Shaun Stemple. Consider the following segment of Terry Hunt's cross-examination.





Q. Are you aware that among those cars somebody saw a large man out there approximately your uncle's size wearing faded out blue jeans?





A. I wasn't aware of that.





Q. You didn't know that?





A. No, sir.





Q. Mr. Stemple, you say, on that night was wearing Adidas clothing, right?





A. Yes, he was wearing windbreaker Adidas outfit.





I fear that we are going to soon execute a fellow human based on such foolishness. I can do nothing but watch in horror and pound the keys of this beat up laptop.



