Posted on 11/06/2017 4:43:20 PM PST by SMGFan
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday overturned a lower court ruling that an Alabama man convicted of killing a police officer in 1985 was no longer legally eligible to be executed because strokes wiped out his memory of committing the murder.
The nine justices ruled unanimously that Alabama can execute 67-year-old Vernon Madison, who has spent decades on death row. They said Supreme Court precedent had not established "that a prisoner is incompetent to be executed because of a failure to remember his commission of the crime."
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We all must face God.
And he who takes an innocent human life must face his reckoning.
One here long overdue.
So....based on the earlier ruling If they would have kilt him ten years earlier he would have remembered his execution, now he won’t remember being dead.
Hitlery Rotten Clinton can’t be prosecuted because she doesn’t remember a damned thing.
It’s important to note he is not being executed for a thought crime but a real crime that he know longer thinks of. If a tree falls in the forest it does make a sound even if nobody is there to hear it.
If he was drunk or stoned while committing a rape or murder that excuse would not fly.
Wait just a minute.... Judges who turn to the Constitution??? What’s up with that?..... /sarc
Fire up ol’ Smokey boys!
Killer: Sorry your honor, I just can’t remember killing 100 people.
Judge: are you kidding me? It was yesterday.
Killer: Gee, I must have a really short memory.
Judge: Alrighty then, 3 months in county jail, suspended. 1 year, unsupervised probation, suspended. You are free to go kill again.
Oops, sorry, we could not remember executing you.
This decision was so blatantly obvious, the Supreme Court didn’t hear oral argument. The interesting part is that the Eleventh Circuit was so ludicrously stupid to rule in favor of the forgetful murderer.
There are plenty more on death row, but he will be catered to for the rest of his life.
Why not release him? He is not the killer he used to be.
Part of criminal punishment is to provide deterrence for others so that they won’t do the same thing. The fact that this one perpetrator can’t remember his crime has no bearing on its warning effect on other perpetrators.
People forget parts of memories all the time and that won’t spare them.
>>>for the rest of his life<<<
May the date be soon!
If they didn’t take decades to carry out the execution things like that wouldn’t happen.
Why not execute him? The slain officer he shot twice in the back of the head is not the officer “he used to be” either. Poor argument for saving his worthless life.
I have a tee shirt that says, “if a man speaks in the desert where no woman can hear, is he still wrong?”.
Lol. Yes he is wrong. He must apologize.
:-) I am a woman, so when I wear that tee men refuse to answer the question.
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