Escaped Convict Captured After 33 Years
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Dec. 3) - A convicted murderer who escaped from a work release program 33 years ago was captured in Alabama, where he had been working construction jobs using his real name, U.S. Marshals announced Saturday.
Billy Wayne Hayes, 57, was arrested by marshals and police Friday night at a gas station in Dothan, Ala., nearly 350 miles from Nashville, where he had been imprisoned.
Hayes was sentenced in 1968 to serve 10 years at the Tennessee State Prison for second-degree murder in the shooting death of William Howard Ferguson, a Nashville paint contractor. He was assigned to a work release program and never returned after signing out for work on Dec. 21, 1972.
Tennessee Department of Corrections spokeswoman Dorinda Carter said Hayes' case was so old that information on it was not in the department's current computer system and would not be available until Monday.
2006-12-03 07:59:29 · 21 answers · asked by marnefirstinfantry 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Of course he should.
2006-12-03 08:00:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
He needs to complete his sentence - he still was found guilty of second degree murder and failed to due his time. You don't get rewarded for "getting away" with something, no matter how much time has passed or how inept the police department has been in tracking the convict. Why should he be pardoned from the full original sentencing (in addition to penalties for escaping)?
2006-12-03 16:11:47 · answer #2 · answered by actingnormal 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What kind of question is that? Of course he should have to serve the ten years he was given. As a matter of fact, he should be given more time because he "escaped" and was on the loose for more than three decades.
No matter how good he was in those 33 years, the fact still remains that he committed a crime (murder no less) so he should have to pay for his actions.
2006-12-03 16:02:49 · answer #3 · answered by I Am Legend 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes. He did the crime and refused to do the time. He has to complete his sentence, plus time for escaping. And this time he doesn't get a cushr work release program, he'll have to do the time behind bars like any other convicted murderer.
2006-12-03 16:03:40 · answer #4 · answered by My Evil Twin 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Go back to jail and sit in his little cell and think about how instead of being a retard and running from the law, he could have been done and out like 20 years ago and would not be having this problem. I think he needs a good @ss whooping too. just for running!
2006-12-03 16:49:00 · answer #5 · answered by gotseatbelts 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just because it's 33 years later doesn't mean he still doesn't have to pay for taking someone elses life. It's not like all this time made the man he killed come back. That's 33 years that poor man didn't get to live at all.
2006-12-03 16:02:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Prison.
He killed a man and only got work release and ten years??
Why should this murderer get any special treatment?
Do the crime, do the time. Cripes it was only 10 years for murder!
2006-12-03 16:09:04 · answer #7 · answered by Gem 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Returned to prison. Finish his sentence for 2nd degree murder.
2006-12-03 16:01:34 · answer #8 · answered by adrenalineguy87 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He still comitted a wrong. He should pay. How I don't know.
Maybe to go back to Nashville and face a Judge again to arrive
at a just treatment. He has been a good citizen for 33 years.
2006-12-03 16:03:26 · answer #9 · answered by Jack G 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
The way it goes in life is that one way or another, everyone will get what's coming to them. If what's coming to this man is jail time, then he will get it. If he has already suffered for his crime then he will not have jail time coming, if he's already suffered but has commited other heinous crimes and not been caught or, then he's got it coming to him
2006-12-03 16:45:43 · answer #10 · answered by hey_finny 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Returned to prison.
There is no statute of limitations for murder or prison escape. If the state chose to, they could try those who aided and abetted him if it could be shown they had knowledge of his escape.
2006-12-03 16:01:55 · answer #11 · answered by ©2009 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋