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In Texas, a man who didn’t kill anybody is about to be executed for murder
Washington Post ^ | August 12 2016 | Kristine Guerra

Posted on 08/12/2016 9:55:23 AM PDT by CorporateStepsister

Terri Been’s voice shook as she read a long text message from her niece.

“I had a nightmare about my dad last night,” Paige Rowan told her aunt in the text.

Rowan described a dream in which she watched helplessly as the execution needle pierced her father’s skin.

She woke up screaming, panicking and feeling hopeless, she told Been.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: capitalpunishment; clemency; deathpenalty; defenseattorney; execution; executionneedle; forensicpsychiatrist; jeffreyleewood; murder; needle; prosecutor; psychiatrist; robbery; texas; timcole
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To: NorthMountain

They should bring back the prison farms. You don’t work the farm, you don’t eat.


41 posted on 08/12/2016 10:37:52 AM PDT by Yaelle (Sorry, Mr. Franklin. We've been extremely careless with our Republic.)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

there should be swift and decisive death penalty.

In cases where there is eyewitnesses and conclusive evidence, they should just shoot them right there in the courtroom at the end of the verdict.


42 posted on 08/12/2016 10:38:36 AM PDT by Mr. K (Trump will win NY state - choke on that HilLIARy)
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To: onedoug

>>You’re a conservative with no Biblical knowledge? How does that work?

I’ve been a Conservative since 1980. I was an atheist from 1978 to 2007. The two are not dependent on one another.


43 posted on 08/12/2016 10:38:59 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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To: Hodar

Thanks.

The excerpt was irrelevant nonsense. I figured any article that has such drivel would be nonsense, but I was not going to cluck through to read the article.

Your post explained the facts and why he is guilty of murder.


44 posted on 08/12/2016 10:39:40 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: CorporateStepsister

“hard labor”

These days, that means no CATV on Tuesdays and Thursdays.


45 posted on 08/12/2016 10:39:54 AM PDT by Carriage Hill ( Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: CorporateStepsister

He’s white, so he will probably be executed. If he was black, he might have a chance.


46 posted on 08/12/2016 10:39:58 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: hadaclueonce

that was a stupd question- unless the nuns were aware of the crime and supported it.

If a guy drives a murderer to commit the act then he should get the death penalty too.


47 posted on 08/12/2016 10:40:16 AM PDT by Mr. K (Trump will win NY state - choke on that HilLIARy)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

“There should be no death penalty.”

Why not?


48 posted on 08/12/2016 10:40:18 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: onedoug

LOL!
They’re a dime a dozen these days or trolls.


49 posted on 08/12/2016 10:40:58 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (*Convicted of thought crimes by the Left and the Right*)
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To: fireforeffect

“One of the reasons I am not a conservative.”

What are you and why?


50 posted on 08/12/2016 10:41:59 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Arlis

👍👍👍👍👍


51 posted on 08/12/2016 10:43:00 AM PDT by Carriage Hill ( Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: hadaclueonce

You are lucky the judge didn’t cite you for contempt. You making a snarky stupid point. I agree with the judge’s decision to throw you off the jury, though I suppose the defense attorney wished you had been retained.


52 posted on 08/12/2016 10:50:18 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (I'm not a smug know-it-all; I just want you to experience epistemological closure.)
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To: Larry Lucido

You can read the article


53 posted on 08/12/2016 10:50:34 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Honcho

Execution, and not after decades of legal wrangling and costing millions of taxpayer $, is the only just method. For murder, rape, child molesting, arson that results in a death.


54 posted on 08/12/2016 10:50:47 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: CorporateStepsister

No attention to, and no sympathy for, the person who was murdered.


55 posted on 08/12/2016 10:51:15 AM PDT by Stevenc131
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To: Larry Lucido

It’s called the joint enterprise principle. If you are a party to a crime, and the crime results in a murder, you are liable for the *results* of *your* criminal act.

He did kill a man. He just didn’t pull the trigger. Hitler never personally harmed a single Jew.


56 posted on 08/12/2016 10:52:48 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (I'm not a smug know-it-all; I just want you to experience epistemological closure.)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

That’s not true.

You stand up to evil and reveal it’s just rewards.

Placing someone on death row to be a thorn in the side of prison guards for 50 years is not humane to the guards.


57 posted on 08/12/2016 10:54:22 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (He wins & we do, our nation does, the world does. It's morning in America again. You are living it!)
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To: hadaclueonce
The Judge asked if anyone had any questions, so I asked about “what if it is a bus full of Nuns and the bus driver robs a 7-11?

Stupid, sophomoric argument. First, the prosecutor wouldn't bring charges, second, the grand jury wouldn't indict. Finally, the jury wouldn't convict. On top of it all, any prosecutor that did bring charges would be made to look like a flaming moron in every election for the rest of his life.

58 posted on 08/12/2016 10:55:40 AM PDT by hopespringseternal
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To: CorporateStepsister

The poor bastard had the bad luck to be white. If he was black, his sappy excuses would be running 24/7/365 on MSNBC.


59 posted on 08/12/2016 10:56:53 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (I'm not a smug know-it-all; I just want you to experience epistemological closure.)
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To: CorporateStepsister

My dad was murdered by 2 punks with a gun. Both are now out and on the street.


60 posted on 08/12/2016 10:59:42 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Stop the Left and save the world.)
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