Clemency unlikely for pair facing execution, experts say

Mercury News ^ | 12/14/05 | Brandon Bailey and Dan Reed

[ProtectOurFreedom]

With the failure of a high-profile clemency bid for Stanley Tookie Williams, legal observers say a reprieve seems even less likely for two more death row inmates who are facing execution in coming months -- and the pace of capital punishment could increase in California over the next two years.

Hours after Williams was put to death on Tuesday, death penalty opponents vowed to renew their efforts against the execution of 75-year-old Clarence Ray Allen of Fresno, scheduled for Jan. 17, by arguing that no civilized society should kill a prisoner who is elderly, partially blind and confined to a wheelchair.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

So the leftist libs are arguing that society shouldn't kill the infirm? Weren't the very same people arguing the exact opposite position with regard to Terri Schiavo? In Terri's case, they were falling all over themselves to pull the plug on the poor woman. Liberalism is intellectually and morally bankrupt. As Savage says, it truly is a mental disorder.

[Red Badger]

....no civilized society should kill a prisoner who is elderly, partially blind and confined to a wheelchair.

If this were a civilized society, we wouldn't need to...........

[L98Fiero]

Funny, John B. Dixon Jr. is scheduled to be executed today in MS. He is 77 years old and, only killed one person and admits he did it. Why isn't he getting the "Tookie" treatment?

[L98Fiero]

Make taht John B. Dixon Sr. Jr. was convicted as an accessory.

[IronJack]

no civilized society should kill a prisoner who is elderly, partially blind and confined to a wheelchair.

You forgot the most important part: "elderly, partially blind, confined to a wheelchair, and duly convicted by a jury of his peers, in accordance with due process, and sentenced to death for murder."

[Ouderkirk]

If this were a civilized society, we wouldn't need to...........

AMEN

[george wythe]

Allen was serving a life sentence for murder at Folsom State Prison in the 1970s, when he arranged for another man to kill three people who had testified against Allen in his original trial. An appellate judge later wrote that such crimes were exactly what the death penalty is designed for.

The lawyers ran out the clock for 3 decades, and the lawyers now claim that it's cruel to execute this POS.

Enough delay.

[Tzimisce]

No capital punishment!

It's more humane to lock someone in prison for 80+ years.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Why isn't he getting the "Tookie" treatment?

Because he's not black?

[Pearls Before Swine]

Clarence Ray should have Dr. Kevorkian as a cellmate.

[Tunehead54]

Article Title: Clemency unlikely for pair facing execution, experts say

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Good. :-)

Thanks Red! :-)

[Busywhiskers]

"....no civilized society should kill a prisoner who is elderly, partially blind and confined to a wheelchair."

If the idiot wanted to die when he was young and healthy, he shouldn't have filed all those appeals.