After 34 years, a tiny angel can finally rest in peace. Her killer (stepfather) has died in prison

[Ghost in the Machine]

Rest In Peace, Melisha Gibson


In 1976, 4 year old Melisha Gibson was brutally murdered by her stepfather, Ronald Maddux, as her mother looked on and did not try to help. This baby girl had made the "mistake" of wetting the bed. Ronald Maddux made her take a shower, then put her in her room, with wet hair and the windows open. It was cold out. When the baby girl complained that she was cold, Ronald Maddux made her run around in circles to warm her up. If she stopped running, he hit her with a bat. When she complained that she was thirsty, he made her drink hot sauce. This maggot beat this baby girl until she died.

Her "mother", Wanda Gibson Maddux, died in prison in 1997, Ronald Maddux died in prison, of natural causes, on Feb 7, 2010. They BOTH should have been strapped into the electric chair the day they were sentenced.

Rest in Peace, baby girl.... justice took way too long for you



Here is a link to the newspaper article: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1665&dat=19770302&id=1KojAAAAIBAJ&sjid=dSQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6644,102687

[Lithos]

1. As the father of a 4 year old daughter

WTF?

I just don't get it.

If someone did half of this to my daughter, I would be the one being convicted of murder.

L-

[Ghost in the Machine]

5. I will never understand it either, Lithos...

I feel the same way you do, if it had been my daughter... Ronald Maddux would have been dead the first time he laid a hand on my kid..

[Lithos]

14. I am a long time advocate against the Death Penalty

And I consider myself a rational person, yet I know that within me is someone who would do everything to protect my children. This person would not be alive.

Hard to reconcile this I know. I just know that my wife would not let this situation happen should I not be around.

L-

[Ghost in the Machine]

21. This case is what made me, as a 14 year old, a staunch supporter of the death penalty

I consider myself a rational person, too...

[depakid]

2. Seems to me you're confusing justice with vengeance

[Ghost in the Machine]

6. Seems you're confusing me with someone who gives a damn about your opinion

[depakid]

13. More of an objective fact than an opinion

though of course the argument could also be made that life in prison for such an act could well involve considerably more pain and punishment than frying 'em up.

[Ghost in the Machine]

15. No, it's still just your opinion...

Your opinion is that life in prison is "justice", MY opinion is that taking douchebags like Ronald Maddux out back and putting a bullet in his brain for what he did to this baby girl is "justice".

We all know that opinions are like assholes...

Sorry, but I strongly support the death penalty for maggots like this

[hatesthegop]

30. agreed

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

31. What seems unjust about the death penalty in this case?

[peacebird]

3. Sick b@stards. I hope the memory of that poor childs final hours tormented them every hour.

What sort of creature could DO such a thing?!? Especially to a toddler?

:grr:

So - you have to wash the freaking sheets! What is the big deal?!?

[Ghost in the Machine]

8. Several people tried to kill him in jail before he ever went to trial, while he was in County lockup

Too bad they failed...

[Stinky The Clown]

4. I prefer to ignore the Old Testament.

[Ghost in the Machine]

12. What does that have to do with anything?

[Stinky The Clown]

The root of the thinking that gives us the death penalty

[bluestateguy]

7. How much taxpayer money was spent on free health care for this monster?

and cable television and pancake breakfasts, etc.!?

DISgusting.

[Ghost in the Machine]

9. Way too much... n/t

[depakid]

16. Considerably less than the cost of executing them...

Of course, torture or or subjecting inmates even more inhumane conditions than usual in US prisons would have been close to free.

[npk]

17. How much does a needle and a wooden box cost

I'll chip in.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

32. Executing them is quite cheap.

[proud2BlibKansan]

19. Legal fees on appeals of his death sentence would have been far more expensive

[Ghost in the Machine]

23. Shouldn't need appeals with witnesses and a confession...

walk them out of the court house and put a bullet in their brain.. a bullet might cost a dollar...

[proud2BlibKansan]

27. If the system was foolproof, no you wouldn't need appeals

But sadly, there are innocent people on death row. Not this guy but there are those whom the justice system fails.

In Saudi Arabia, they have public executions. I don't want to be like them.

I prefer life without parole. Languishing in a cell for the rest of their lives is justice. Killing them is a release from the torture of a prison cell.

[Terra Alta]

10. that poor little girl.

just think of the horrors she went through in her final hours...

Her stepfather and so-called "mother" were monsters... they got their punishment in this lifetime, and if there is an afterlife I hope they continue to be punished for all eternity.

[Ghost in the Machine]

24. Yes, they were monsters... not even fit for prison society.. n/t

[Crabby Appleton]

11. Rest In Peace, Melisha

[proud2BlibKansan]

18. He never saw the outside of a cell and the taxpayers didn't spend money on appeals

as they would have if he had received the death penalty.

Good outcome. Life without parole is the best punishment for those who commit crimes like this. Death is an early release.

[Indepatriot]

20. Feelin ya Ghost, I have a 4 year-old daughter

and anyone trying to harm her would face swift and brutal retribution..... still, I'm against Capital Punishment as State Policy, as some very fatal mistakes have been made in the past while handing out "justice". Cold comfort for sure, but child killers/abusers get the worst of it in the Big House. I'm sure his final years were a living hell.

[Ghost in the Machine]

25. I agree that mostakes have been made in the past, but there were no doubts here..n/t

[rug]

22. Do you think her sprit has been waiting 34 hyears for him to die?

[Ghost in the Machine]

26. Maybe it did, do you have anything to prove it didn't?

[rug]

28. Reality.

[AnneD]

29. I remember reading of this when I was much younger....

I cried when I read what had happened to that poor child-it never left my mind.


What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be;


William Wordsworth