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#308730 - 09/30/18 09:55 PM
George Will: Abolish the death penalty
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George F. Will The Washington Post September 28, 2018 Without being aware of it, Vernon Madison might become a footnote in constitutional law because he is barely aware of anything. For more than 30 years, Alabama, with a tenacity that deserves a better cause, has been trying to execute him for the crime he certainly committed, the 1985 murder of a police officer. Twice the state convicted him unconstitutionally (first excluding African Americans from the jury, then insinuating inadmissible evidence into the record). In a third trial, the judge, who during his time on the bench overrode more life sentences (six) than any other Alabama judge, disregarded the jury’s recommended sentence of life imprisonment and imposed the death penalty...
His counsel of record, Bryan A. Stevenson, head of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Ala., says it was undisputed in the penalty phase of Madison’s third trial that he already “suffered from a mental illness marked by paranoid delusions.” ...
Madison’s case compels us to focus on the death penalty in its granular reality: Assisting someone who is non-ambulatory, and bewildered because he is (in Stevenson's phrase) “memory-disordered,” to be strapped down so an executioner can try to find a vein — often a problem with the elderly — to receive a lethal injection. Capital punishment is withering away because the process of litigating the administration of it is so expensive, and hence disproportionate to any demonstrable enhancement of public safety, but also because of a healthy squeamishness that speaks well of us... Full article
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#308736 - 10/01/18 05:44 PM
Re: George Will: Abolish the death penalty
[Re: Golem]
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Registered: 11/24/06
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I'm not completely against the death penalty. Some folks simply do not deserve to live. By the same token, they don't deserve a peaceful comfortable death either. The folks I'm talking about showed no mercy in their crimes and deserve none in their punishment.
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#308745 - 10/01/18 08:39 PM
Re: George Will: Abolish the death penalty
[Re: Golem]
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Pooh-Bah
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And George Will has begun his slide into dementia. Witness his now fawning excuse for Kavanaugh: "Put yourself in his shoes, he's exhausted" Hillary didn't resort to snot-crying belligerence, and she was grilled longer and harder, and uncut...for eleven hours, and through EIGHT back to back investigations.
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#308747 - 10/01/18 09:48 PM
Re: George Will: Abolish the death penalty
[Re: Jeffery J. Haas]
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Pooh-Bah
Registered: 11/24/06
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Loc: Florida
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I just don't trust the state to "get the right guy" because all too often they HAVE put the wrong people IN PRISON, and put the wrong people to death. And I agree. If you really need a trial and jury to decide whether someone is guilty then the death penalty probably shouldn't apply.
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#308751 - 10/02/18 12:48 PM
Re: George Will: Abolish the death penalty
[Re: Jeffery J. Haas]
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And George Will has begun his slide into dementia. Witness his now fawning excuse for Kavanaugh: "Put yourself in his shoes, he's exhausted" Hillary didn't resort to snot-crying belligerence, and she was grilled longer and harder, and uncut...for eleven hours, and through EIGHT back to back investigations.
Edited by Ujest Shurly (10/02/18 12:49 PM)
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#308765 - 10/03/18 12:28 AM
Re: George Will: Abolish the death penalty
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Pooh-Bah
Registered: 11/24/06
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Loc: Florida
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Now, you take that blondhaired nazi boy that shot up the black church... Why is that little f*ckwad still alive?
The creep that shot up the theater?
Any number of others. They should be put down like rabid dogs.
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