Some people were horrified by what happened to Allen Lee Davis last week. Prison officials later said that the blood came from a simple nosebleed, and that the blood dripped onto Davis' shirt. But some witnesses said that the blood seemed to come from Davis' chest area.
Blood gushing from the face and chest of a dying inmate is repugnant to the conscience of mankind.
Weiler, an executive with the Westinghouse Corp., was on a business trip in Pittsburgh. Davis brutalized Mrs. Weiler with such force that the trigger guard on the gun with which he was beating her broke, as did the wooden grips and metal frame of its handle. He shot her in the back, and then beat her, crushing her skull. There was quite a bit of blood in the Weiler home after Davis had killed the mother and her two children. Considerably more blood than inadvertently appeared on Davis' shirt during the execution.