Angela Crowley
William Happ
I wonder how his victim died?
“After claiming his innocence for over two decades....”
I wonder if “The Innocence Project” tried, unsuccessfully, to get him freed?
Surely some law student somewhere spent countless hours listening to him profess his innocence, researching his case, filing briefs and appeals, etc.
After all, there might have been a footprint that wasn’t Happ’s footprint somewhere in the area. By that logic the Project has freed many, and likely including many that were in truth guilty.
Angela Crowley
William Happ
Thank Zippy/Holder for taking away the old one.
“As stocks of the usual lethal injection drug dwindle, most US states that carry out executions are turning to new drugs. This is sparking lawsuits from death row prisoners that the changes will cause undue suffering.”
Maybe we should change the laws to not only include a speedy trial (Unless you are the Fort Hood Terrorist) and a speedy punishment. 20 years?
The idea of executions being “cruel and unusual punishment” is silly but it gets sillier when you think that the anti-DP crowd is trying to ban the items used for lethal injections and the states are countering with unproven formulas that may take longer or cause more pain before death. Then the anti-DP folks will crow that it was “cruel and unusual”.
Well, it would still be quick and sudden if we could go back to firing squads. That’s actually a damn humane way to go if you think about it. Boom. Done. Over. Elapsed time: under one minute. And there are ways now to make it so nobody is sure which shooter had the real bullet.