A Missouri death row inmate is outraged by the way his lawyers handled his clemency petition, which was rejected Monday by Gov. Mike Parson.
David Hosier, 69, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Tuesday, more than a decade after he was convicted of the 2009 murders of Angela Gilpin, 45, and Rodney Gilpin, 61, the Associated Press reported.
He maintains his innocence to this day and, to his dismay, his defense team wrote a petition for clemency that focused on how a 16-year-old Hosier suffered severe trauma when his father was murdered in the line of duty as a citizen. from the state of Indiana. Police Sergeant.
He told the Associated Press in a telephone interview that the clemency petition should have focused on the lack of forensic evidence linking him to the Gilpin murders. His lawyers also stated in a failed 2019 appeal to the Missouri Supreme Court that there were no eyewitnesses to the crime.
“They did the exact opposite of what I wanted them to do,” Hosier said. ‘I told them I didn’t want the ‘boo-hoo, woe is me’. That all happened 53 years ago, okay? It has nothing to do with why I’m sitting here right now.
This photo, provided by Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty, shows inmate David Hosier, Friday, June 7, 2024, at the Potosi Correctional Facility in Potosi, Missouri.
Angela Gilpin and Rodney Gilpin were shot to death in 2009. David Hosier was in a romantic relationship with Angela while the married couple was in a breakup and prosecutors say Hosier killed them after they got back together.
His father, Glen Hosier, was shot and killed by a murder suspect in 1971 as he entered a home.
Larry Komp, federal public defender and one of Hosier’s attorneys, He did not address his client’s dissatisfaction, but he stayed on message in a statement he shared with the Associated Press.
“Executing and marginalizing a veteran and an individual harmed by the tragedy of his father’s death in the line of duty sends the wrong message, causing his life to go in a different direction,” Komp wrote in an email.
“The context of his life story with the dearth of evidence relating to his guilt makes this a combination of tragedies; there is nothing to be gained by killing him.”
The Gilpins were found shot to death on September 29, 2009, in the hallway of Angela’s Jefferson City apartment.
Hosier’s motive for killing them was that he was romantically involved with Angela while she was separated from Rodney sometime in 2008 or 2009, according to court records.
Hosier completely disagrees with the strategy his lawyers followed in the clemency petition and told the Associated Press that his father was murdered 53 years ago.
When Angela made the decision to get back with her husband in the summer of 2009, Hosier was heard saying that if she didn’t “get back with him,” he would “end this somehow.”
‘EM. David Hosier stole Angela Gilpin’s life because he couldn’t accept it when she ended her romantic relationship. “He shows no remorse for his senseless violence,” Parson said of his rejection of Hosier’s plea for clemency. “For these heinous acts, Hosier earned the maximum punishment under the law.”
The Republican, a former Polk County sheriff for 22 years, has overseen 10 executions since taking office in 2018.
In the days before the Gilpins were murdered, Hosier allegedly made comments to others threatening to attack Angela.
And after the shooting, police discovered two crucial pieces of evidence in Angela’s purse: an application for a protective order and another document where she wrote about her fears that Hosier would shoot her and her husband.
Missouri’s Republican governor, Mike Parson, rejected Hosier’s request for clemency, which all but guarantees his execution next Tuesday.
At that point, Hosier became a prime suspect for police, who tracked him to Oklahoma using cell tower data.
When they caught up with Hosier and stopped his car, court records show he got out and told the officers, “Shoot me and get this over with.”
Authorities searched his car and found 15 firearms, 400 cartridges and other weapons.
A submachine gun they found is the weapon with which investigators believe Hosier shot the Gilpins, although tests conducted were inconclusive, the Associated Press reported.
Hosier explained all this by saying that he was not on the run, but rather was on a long journey to clear his head. The guns were with him because he was an avid hunter, she said.
However, Hosier has acknowledged his romantic relationship with Angela.
If Hosier is executed next week, which is likely since his attorneys said they have no appeal up their sleeve, he will be the second inmate executed in Missouri this year.
Brian Dorsey, 52, was executed by lethal injection in April for killing his cousin and her husband.
