Posted on 02/26/2014 8:35:40 AM PST by ThinkingBuddha
BONNE TERRE, Missouri -- A Missouri inmate was executed early Wednesday for abducting, raping and killing a Kansas City teenager as she waited for her school bus in 1989, marking the state's fourth execution by lethal injection in as many months.
Michael Taylor, 47, was pronounced dead shortly at 12:10 a.m. at the state prison in Bonne Terre. Federal courts and the governor had refused last-minute appeals from his attorneys, who argued that the execution drug purchased from a compounding pharmacy could have caused Taylor inhumane pain and suffering.
Taylor offered no final statement. He mouthed silent words to his parents, two clergymen and two other relatives who witnessed his death. As the process began, he took two deep breaths before closing his eyes for the last time. There were no obvious signs of distress.
His victim, 15-year-old Ann Harrison, was in her driveway - carrying her school books, flute and purse - when she was abducted by Taylor and Roderick Nunley. The men pulled her into their car, took her to a home, then raped and fatally stabbed the teenager as she pleaded for her life.
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Seems to be the case for some judges. :-(
Yes but it took to long to make me smile
Considering the amount of people waiting for organ donations, these foul individuals should be given the chance to redeem themselves through the donation of their organs. The lethal injection method is probably not conducive with organ harvesting, but hanging or some sort of strangulation can leave a body still alive and ripe for harvesting. I wonder if the state or federal systems have considered this option. Of course, there’s always the alternative. They can volunteer for organ donation, then again the state can always consider making it a mandatory part of the death sentence. ‘You are hereby sentenced to brain death, and upon the death of your brain your organs will be donated to deserving individuals’… Or some wording of that sort. It’s a waste just snuffing these useless bags of blood and bones and then throwing away their perfectly good organs.
Takes way way too long
true about the raising part.
But a mother who loses her child in battle, the child joined up of his own free will. He knew that was a def risk. He didn’t just get framed for something he had no part in. Just because he was at the wrong time/place.
Ideals are one thing, but when its you dancing on the end of the noose, maybe not quite as clear cut.
We should have public hangings at the high school sports facilities when football is out of season...fill the stands on a warm summer night, sell drinks and snacks, maybe have a few local bands play, and then stringin’ time. Proceeds to the victims’ family or a charity of their choice. Win-win.
It was a gain, but why did it take so long ?
what was his excues to his parents?...that he was wrongly convicted...that he just wanted to have sex with a white girl?...that he accidentally murdered this young teenager?......
I stand by what I said. A populace that demands perfection from its legal system will get the opposite — no justice for an unjustly disproportionate number of the victims or their families.
Obsessing over justice for the criminal instead of justice for the victims and their families is what has gotten us in the shape we are in. Always thinking about someone’s feeeeeeelings instead of blind justice and right and wrong.
Can we afford to continue allowing hideous rapes and abuses by parolees or the exonerated-on-a-technicality in cases where there has been overwhelming proof? I am not talking about circumstantial evidence cases here, but solid video and DNA evidence and non-coerced confessions.
There is perfection only in heaven. As long as our justice system make every possible effort not to convict the innocent, we should condemn this practice of getting the obviously guilty off on technicalities and appeals to sentiment or utopianism. If one innocent dies so that thousands can live with justice instead of injustice, is that not preferable?
We should not take any pleasure in it, nor allow any railroading or withheld evidence — police or prosecutors who do that should also receive all due justice.
I remember when this happened. It made me a hawk over my children. Sad it took this long to send the pure evil back to the Maker.
I am not sure about how to get the word out. If someone on this forum has the ear of a Congressman or Senator in their state, they could lay out the proposal to their Legislator and perhaps get the ball rolling? I have written to my state senator / rep but both are Dem’s and don’t support the death penalty.
My thought being that if we can get at least one state to adopt this as a means of execution, or even just put forward a bill for discussion, this might raise the awareness enough for a national radio talk host to talk about it for an hour or so.
Sounds good in theory anyway.
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