Posted on 01/08/2018 8:19:28 AM PST by Dacula
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday put a halt to Georgia’s plans to execute condemned killer Keith Tharpe, directing the federal appeals court in Atlanta to take a closer look at claims that one of Tharpe’s jurors voted for the death sentence because Tharpe was black. By a 6-3 vote, the high court questioned a decision by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals not even to consider Tharpe’s latest appeal involving claims of racial bias on the part of the juror. Death-row inmate Keith Tharpe. (Georgia Department of Corrections) The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “It may be that, at the end of the day, Tharpe should not receive (permission to pursue his appeal),” the court said, in an unsigned opinion. But it’s possible the juror’s bias prejudiced the case against Tharpe, the court said. The U.S. Supreme Court halted Tharpe’s scheduled execution on the night it was to be carried out in September. The dramatic stay was ordered after Tharpe had eaten what he believed to be his last meal. Seven years after his conviction, Tharpe’s lawyers interviewed juror Barney Gattie. “After studying the Bible, I have wondered if black people even have souls, ” said Gattie, according to an affidavit he signed years after the trial. The murder victim, who was Tharpe’s sister-in-law, came from a family of “nice black folks, ” Gattie said. “If they had been the type Tharpe is, then picking between life and death for Tharpe wouldn’t have mattered so much. My feeling is, what would be the difference?” Gattie, who is now deceased, also used a racial slur referring to Tharpe, the affidavit said.
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If it’s allegations and you didn’t see it, how will you know that’s so?
Once an “F-U” fest begins, how wicked can it get? Sometimes very wicked.
The deeds of old dead Democrats (and maybe Republicans who could have come up with something better than laissez-faire) are still blowing back on us all today. Abe Lincoln was a trifle naive. The wicked part of the South tried to rise again.
Christendom itself is quite cold and it shows in the cold comments of supposedly “God-and-country” “conservatives.” Actually, it should be God over country.
The more nodding and winking we do, the worse our blindness. It pains God, and God allows Satan to in turn pain those who do it. It’s a wake up call: “Look in what you are dealing.” Arresting evil spirits does far more good than arresting people.
Don’t get me started on Lincoln. I am going to say something very politically incorrect and possibly even racist, but it’s reality. Just about every single metropolitan city in the South has proven what folks like Wallace and Barnett said, right.
Blacks vote for blacks simply for being black. Even civil rights icon John Lewis wants people to vote for “the black candidate”. A great number of blacks hate whites just for being white, but apparently that isn’t a problem.
“Blacks vote for blacks simply for being black. Even civil rights icon John Lewis wants people to vote for “the black candidate”. A great number of blacks hate whites just for being white, but apparently that isn’t a problem.”
What does that have to do with Keith Tharpe’s case?
The problem is that I don’t see it as relevant.
The person is now dead. Arguing his intent regarding his verdict is the equivalent of arguing the intent of the voter that created a hanging chad on their voter card.
Unless the guy comes forward and said, “I found for guilty becuase I hate black people and he is black”, there is nothing here to argue. And it doesn’t help that every other juror also found the defendant guilty. It’s not like we’re trying to turn a single holdout. The opposite is true. They are trying to nullify a verdict on a technicality, and a darned weak one.
Gattie signed the statement.
The DC Grand Jury looks like a BLM Convention without a Republican in the bunch.
Just sayin’...
Gattie signed the statement.
What if a juror, seven years after a trial, comes out publicly and changes his part of a unanimous verdict? It should not matter. Even if signed in blood.
It does not appear that Gattie changed his opinion on guilt or innocence but rather gave a strong indication that he was unfit to serve as a juror in a capital case.
...gave a strong indication that he was unfit to serve as a juror in a capital case.
People’s opinions change. Like I said earlier, it may have been the experience in that case that caused his racist viewpoints.
“Sorry” I think you have to make a better case yourself. Hand waving generalities do not a point prove.
Not all of Africa is the same either.
Misfortune isn’t just being a slave to white races; it’s being in thrall to wicked religions while Christendom goes la-di-dah that’s Calvin for ya.
Lack of prayer itself could be what is disintegrating our civilization.
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