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[Tennessee] Death row inmate gets execution stay
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| 5/11/6
Posted on 05/11/2006 1:11:02 PM PDT by SmithL
NASHVILLE Death row inmate Sedley Alley received a stay of execution Thursday from a federal judge.
Alley was scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 1985 rape and murder of 19-year-old Marine Lance Cpl. Suzanne M. Collins at the Millington Naval Air Station outside Memphis.
Federal Judge Aleta Traugher issued the stay because for Alley, who is challenging the states lethal injection procedure.
A ruling on whether the drugs used in lethal injection violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment is pending in the U.S. Supreme Court.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: aletatraugher; clintonappointee; deathpenalty; failedteacher; gorepal; lethalinjection; marine; murder; rape; sedleyalley; suzannecollins
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To: SmithL
What state legislatures need to do is pass laws specifying the guillotine as an alternative means of execution. It is quick and painless (though perhaps a tad messy). Faced with that alternative, some of these Clinton bozo judges might have second thoughts about messing with lethal injection.
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05/11/2006 2:06:37 PM PDT
by
blau993
To: Dick Vomer
Thank you, sir. That's a much better presentation and far more suited to a Marine that enlisted and served under President Reagan.
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05/11/2006 2:11:09 PM PDT
by
HipShot
("Remember the first rule of gunfighting... have a gun." --Colonel Jeff Cooper)
To: Dick Vomer
Judge Penny White made that decision, and she paid for it with her career. She was ousted from the bench during a fierce political campaign that portrayed her as soft on crime We need Judges like Traugher off the bench, too.
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05/11/2006 2:18:19 PM PDT
by
SmithL
(Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
To: ErnBatavia
robert salazar
texas
march 22, 2006
a dozen tamales, six brownies, refried beans with chorizo, two rollo candies, six hard shell tacos with lettuce, three big red sodas, ketchup, hot sauce, six jalapeno peppers, tomatoes, cheese, and extra ground beef. That would constitute a last meal even without the execution.
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05/11/2006 4:06:11 PM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: SmithL
This was to happen tonight and it was just announced that Bredesen halted it for 15 days so that DNA testing could be done..
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05/16/2006 3:14:37 PM PDT
by
pnz1
To: SmithL
A ruling on whether the drugs used in lethal injection violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment is pending in the U.S. Supreme Court. If this is true, one cannot blame the delay on the U.S. District Court Judge.
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