Lomax said she still has conflicting emotions about whether Heidnik should have been executed. “When my son asked me why it’s OK to kill someone as a punishment for killing someone, I couldn’t look him in the eye and explain why.” Shapiro added that he used to believe the death penalty was a just punishment for the most heinous crimes but changed his views after becoming the state’s attorney general. Period,” said Shapiro, a former prosecutor. “The commonwealth shouldn’t be in the business of putting people to death. He also urged state lawmakers to repeal the death penalty, joining a growing number of state leaders making similar calls. Josh Shapiro said he won’t allow the state to execute any inmates during his term, regardless of their crime. That will likely hold true for a while – last month, Gov. Nearly a quarter of a century later, Heidnik remains the last man to be executed in Pennsylvania.
GARY HEIDNIK MISSHAPEN HEAD TRIAL
She’ll never forget the women’s vivid trial testimony about how Heidnik handcuffed a starving Lindsay to the rafters and mocked her. She remembers the agony of learning how he’d held them in a water-filled pit and abused them before killing Lindsay and one other victim.
Lomax said she still recalls every detail of the case against the man who kidnapped her sister, Sandra Lindsay, and five other Black women and kept them as sex slaves in his basement in Philadelphia. Applause broke out and one witness shouted “Thank you, Jesus!” after Heidnik was declared dead, Penn Live reported. Tracey Lomax watched from the viewing room of a state prison in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, as her sister’s killer received a lethal injection.Ĭonvicted murderer Gary Heidnik had received his last meal – black coffee and two slices of cheese pizza – shortly before he was executed on July 6, 1999.
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