Kenneth Charm was executed by the State of Oklahoma for the murder of Brandy Hill
According to court documents Kenneth Charm and an accomplice would pick up fourteen year old Brandy Hill who would be sexually assaulted and murdered
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Kenneth Charm would be executed by lethal injection on June 5 2003
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Kenneth Charm was executed on June 5 2003
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Michael Davis watched a friend die when his daughter’s killer was put to death Thursday. Kenneth Chad Charm, 37, was put to death at 6:05 p.m. for the 1993 rape and murder of 14-year-old Brandy Crystian Hill. Charm is the ninth inmate to be put to death by the state this year.
“It’s kind of sad,” said Davis, who recently changed his last name from Hill to Davis. “There were two lives lost here. It’s not like I didn’t know him. It’s still hard for me to dislike him, even though he took my little girl.” A spiritual adviser, an attorney and an investigator witnessed Charm’s execution. None of his family members were present. “I want to apologize to the victim’s family and to my family and ask their forgiveness,” Charm said before his execution. As the execution began, Charm grimaced his face, closed his eyes and puffed out a few deep breaths.
Hill, an honor student who wanted to become the first female black president, was visiting her father for the summer when she was lured into a car with Charm and co-defendant Ron Jessie. On a remote Comanche County road, the men raped, strangled and bludgeoned the girl to death with a sledgehammer. Hill lived with her mother in Michigan and was visiting her father, in Lawton. Her parents divorced when she was 2.
On the day of the murder, Charm and Jessie had visited Brandy Hill’s father. The two men left the house, picked up Brandy Hill, raped and killed her and then returned to the Hill home to establish an alibi, court records show. Charm testified that he and Jessie both delivered blows that killed the girl. Jessie, who was 16 at the time, received a life sentence without parole.
Death penalty opponents had rallied against the execution because Charm’s attorneys claimed he was retarded. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year against executing mentally retarded people and the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ruled that people with an IQ of 70 or below shouldn’t face the death penalty. Charm has an IQ of 75, but his attorneys claim IQ tests have a margin of error of plus or minus five points. P>Charm’s attorneys appealed the death sentence to the nation’s high court, asking justices to review the state’s standard. The Supreme Court denied the appeals Thursday afternoon. The state Pardon and Parole Board voted unanimously last month to deny Charm clemency.
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