Posted on 05/02/2014 12:06:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Barack Obama today tried to raise his supporters’ long-standing opposition to jury-directed death-penalties by suggesting to a German reporter today that Americans jurors and judges may be biased against African-American murderers.
“What happened in Oklahoma was deeply troubling,” said Obama, referring to a recent execution of an African-American man in Oklahoma.
The comments came two years after Obama used a Rose Garden appearance to focus African-Americans’ attention on a dispute over the killing of a young black man — Trayvon Martin — by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Florida. “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon,” Obama said in March 2012, months before the November election.
A Pew report in March showed that only 36 percent of African-Americans and 40 percent Latinos support the death penalty. In contrast, roughly 63 percent of whites support the death penalty.
In Oklahoma, the condemned man did not die quickly because his vein collapsed, hindering passage of the first of three execution drugs. Fifteen years ago, the man had kidnapped four people. He eventually executed one of them — an 18 year-old teenager — after she watched her grave being dug for 20 minutes. The murderer was condemned after testimony from multiple witnesses.
Instead of sidestepping a foreign reporter’s question about a state-level issue in Oklahoma, Obama choose to expand the Oklahoma case into a veiled attack on the death penalty.
“We have seen significant problems — racial bias, uneven application of the death penalty..."(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Just don’t rely on Wal-Mart for the ammunition.
only 994 days until Jan 20, 2017.
But then, we may see another Alinskyite liberal become president that day..........................
The dead dude was coached to refuse food and drink so his veins would collapse and it would be difficult to start an IV.
A long drop with a short rope would eliminate all the fuss over death by injection.
I think it’d be fitting to also give the victims’ family members the option of volunteering for the firing squad.
Maybe they can subcontract with the crew that took care of Saddam Hussein....
Maybe through the legal “system”...
Jeb Bush is a follower of Alinsky?
Bob and Nancy Strait lived less than a mile from where my elderly parents lived. My parents were lucky. They moved away into an assisted living facility.
Bob and Nancy weren’t so lucky. They were also very elderly and going to move into such a facility as well. But the day before the move, she was raped and murdered. He was shot in the face and died a week later.
You’re right about the US media ignoring this. It was the British press that had the most to say about it.
The SOB (son of Barack) cut his arm to open a vein and had to be tazed.
Therefore any and all difficulties and delays in his death were ENTIRELY his own doing.
Published an hour ago about something Zero said last Friday.
I was thinking of Hillary as the nect presidemt when mentioning an Alinskyite successor to Obama.
Obama should read what they did to the murder victim. They raped her multiple times,then shot her, and buried her alive. And Obama feels sorry for this guy?
He has to play it. It is the only card Obozo has.
That’s not how The Grio, MSNBC, Ebony, Jet, the WH, Atlanta Black Star News, Thy Black Man and a thousand other places will play it, I guarantee you.
And I was making a joke.
I think he means Traygone and Zimmerman.
LOL, joke noted. Geez, 8 years of Hillary on top of 8 years of Obama, I hate to think about that.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2618893/He-deserved-Friends-victim-weigh-botched-execution-video-surfaces-chilling-1999-taped-confession-Oklahoma-murderer-showed-no-remorse-did.html
Guess she is the wrong color for President Obama to care about her.
Barrack He’s dead the issue has been used up! Tell us about Benghazi and the Murder you sustained with inaction!
Lie baby lie to day!
I can’t no shelter!
Obama is this century’s Pigmeat Markham?
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