Posted on 12/02/2009 8:01:18 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Should have taken about 29 days, if that.
An accurate description of what Stevens has subjected the Republic to since he took his seat on the bench in 1975. Thank you Gerald R. Ford.
That’s much quicker than they execute them in Connecticut.
"Do I even need to say it?"
Typical liberal lunacy. These $h&thead judges engineer the extremely long delay, then claim the delay is cruel and inhuman. Reason #456,903 on the list of reasons to despise liberals.
Good riddance to the sub-human monster Johnson. This ape had no compunction about murdering a twelve year kid -- I hope he had very "dehumanizing" experience on death row. I hope he was completely miserable during his three decades of extra life.
Unfortunately, this is the norm for Tennessee. The system allows the condemned to file dozens upon dozens of appeals and does not require that all be bundled as one big appeal.
I do have a problem with the death penalty in such convictions.
That's true. And it is true that it is cruel and inhuman punishment for these scum to endure this endless delay. The execution may be just. However, as unusual, the law of liberal unintended consequences turns an unfortunate but just reality into a cruel torture.
So SCOTUS' [almost] perfectly consistent Liberal King is saying it's liberals that are imposing cruel and unusual punishment on the condemned? Wow, candid.
What if there was an eyewitness?
That’s 29 years of LAWYERS milking the taxpayers to keep this dirtbag alive. That’s really what it’s about.
Not good enough. Eyewitness testimony has been shown over and over again to be unreliable. As a jurist, I could possibly send a man to prison on circumstantial evidence alone, just not to death.
Considering the number of rape cases that were tried (in the past) based solely on eyewitness testimony only to be overturned years later when DNA evidence showed them innocent.
I say nope.
I like the long wait. Allows them many years of actual punishment, with all the trappings of prison life, knowing they will never be released, then get executed at the end.
Trash collection is too slow.
I’d be against the DP if we could do banishment instead ...forever.....banish the animal to the deepest recesses of prison....no tv interviews...no emailing...no blogging....no mail.....but that would be too “cruel”.
"I do have a problem with the death penalty in such convictions."
Why is that? Suppose a murder is committed such as this one and there are 3 or 4 eye witnesses on the scene. Each independently describes the individual down to the scar on his neck or some other such defining physical characteristic. The man is then picked up, has NO alibi and is again ID'd in a line up by the same witnesses. What's wrong with the death sentence in a case like this?
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