Child Rapist Steve Smith Executed in Ohio

Argued he never meant to hurt six-month-old he raped

A man convicted of killing a 6-month-old as he raped her was executed Wednesday despite his arguments that he never meant to hurt her.

Steve Smith, 46, was executed by lethal injection for the September 1998 killing of his live-in girlfriend's daughter, Autumn Carter, in Mansfield in northern Ohio. He was pronounced dead at 10:29 a.m.

Comments

[Old Man With Candy]

His posts here will be missed.

[SouthernSeaDog(Y-tarian)]

I was going to post this in the other threads, but then I thought it was a tad off limits.

[Andrew S.]

I had it all typed out in here... and then.. eh.

Maybe in the PM links.

In all seriousness, I'm against the death penalty, but this is the kind of case that makes me rethink that.

[Sevo]

"In all seriousness, I'm against the death penalty, but this is the kind of case that makes me rethink that."

He may well deserve it, but I'm still not willing to grant the state the right to deliver it.

[Andrew S.]

Agreed 100%. That was the point I was trying to get across, but I failed completely.

[Jordan]

Nothing's off-limits here. And somebody did post it in the AM links.

[SouthernSeaDog(Y-tarian)]

"Nothing's off-limits here."

Absolutely.

[EDG reppin' LBC]

Seriously. It's sort of a sick psychotherapy for me, personally. No matter how sick or nut-punchy something is, I can come to H&R and laugh at it, and add another layer to my cynical shell.