Posted on 07/26/2013 11:28:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Alabama executed a convicted murderer on Thursday who prisoners' rights groups said was mentally ill.
Andrew Reid Lackey, 29, was put to death by lethal injection at Holman Prison in Atmore, Alabama, prison officials said. It was the state's first execution since 2011. Lackey was convicted of killing Charlie Newman, an 80-year-old World War Two veteran in Athens, Alabama.
Andrew Reid Lackey, who was executed by Alabama on Thursday, was prescribed multiple psychotropic drugs, according to the Equal Justice Initiative.
Lackey made no statement before his execution, according to prison officials. He was pronounced dead at 6:25 p.m. local time (7:25 p.m. ET). Newman's grandson had told Lackey that his grandfather had a vault filled with gold bars, according to court documents.
On a 911 recording from Newman's home, the veteran's last words were, "Come sit down and let me pray for you." He was trying to calm Lackey, who was a close friend of his grandson, according to court record.
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I am not sure how being mentally allows you to kill someone and people think you shouldn’t be punished.
So what. Do they brutal murderers are well adjusted?
What a shame- one less POS for me/we the taxpayers to support.
What’s the problem?
All killers are mentally ill.
There are the mentally ill and then there are the mentally incompetent. Not that the difference matters anything at all to their victims.
“Come sit down and let me pray for you.”
Idiot.
I think it’s better is we said the he was “put to sleep” by the State.
They executed the wrong person.
Seems all the reason more to have him taken down.
There should be a new verdict:
Guilty BY reason of Gross Insanity with no hope for rehabilitation what so ever!
James Holmes would qualify for this verdict
Mentally ill? And we’re supposed to care? Why?
Hussein probably wanted to give him a medal.
Let's add this up shall we. We are supposed to oppose the death penalty because Lackey "shot and stabbed a WWII Vet during a robbery on Halloween". How does that make sense?
Stig23
Let's face it, 90% of the Southern populace (Black or White) are borderline retarded, why else would they start voting Republican ?? not that the so-called Democrats are the party of the working class anymore but sleazy wedge issue (aka racism and religious intolerance) have somehow changed what was the bastion of the Democratic party into a bunch of Morlocks who vote for Republicans even though it's against their own self interests.
Example: Texas, the current Neanderthal Governor makes even Dub-ya seem like a Mensa star.
Texas, history will judge you, and I don't think it will be kind, except for a few jewels of creativity like Austin
your state would have been better left as part of Mexico.
Call it a 119th trimester abortion and the left will be all for it.
Of course, what the shrinks never talk about is why incidences of "paranoid schizophrenia", "multiple personality disorders" and so on are so rare in countries where having them is not a legal defence against murder :) IOW, people are playing the system...claiming insanity when they arent in order to avoid punishment.
sorry, I meant to say “not culpable”.
If the person does not need 24-7 care and attention, like a leash, with an attendant they should be help culpable
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