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[Thermalsig]

Read this. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090819/ap_on_re_us/us_execution_deadline
I'm 100% for the death penalty and I think rapists should be hung to die slowly by strangulation, but only after his appeals have run out. I'm on the fence with this one. I'm not sure the judge should lose her seat. Some discipline is in order for sure. Feck, I'm switching back and forth on whether to boot her ass or just sanction her. The more I think about it, the more I think she should taken off the bench. He was a murdering rapist and his appeal was weak, but to not follow the law is wrong. He would of been executed anyways, why not let his appeals run out? Then again, living for 22 years on death row is my tax dollars being drained to feed, cloth and provide TV for the bastard. Flip Flop. Flip Flop. Flip Flop. I can't make up my mind.

[Condor Baggins]

I think she's a total cow for doing that, everyone has right to an appeal no-matter what has gone before them. 

[Wooster]

If the role of a judge is to make appropriate decisions (not assumptions) on legal matters, then she's failed badly in that respect and should be sacked as a result imho.

The issue now is what the implications will be is she is found to have been negligent.
Obviously it's too late for the bloke that was executed, but it could open up a whole can of worms if they decide it was carried out before his appeal process had properly run it's course.

Would it have been a legal or an illegal execution?

[keasy]

I'm so against the capital punishment, let alone by the worse way to go (contrary to popular belief) lethal injection, that for some woman to play God not once but twice by deliberately closing court to stop an appeal is despicable. She should serve time herself.

[Condor Baggins]

I think she should do time and not be granted the luxury of an appeal...

[Thermalsig]

Wooahhh. You are talking about a twice convicted rapist/murderer. He left two young girls with no mother. His appeal was a waste of time. It should have been granted, but lets face it, he deserved death and would of gotten it later anyways. We aren't talking about a drug conviction here. The judge serving time will never happen, a justifiable censure maybe, but time in prison? Never for a man who committed and admitted.

[keasy]

So what's yer point then ?   

[Thermalsig]

So what's yer point then ?   

So easy, simpleton. I wished to find other opinions on the subject. My opinion weighs the same as yours, just an opinion. I was just pointing out what wouldn't happen, not what would.

[keasy]

Okay.
Thanks.

but what's yer point ?



 

[Thermalsig]

That you are a pished asshhoooooliooooooo!

[keasy]

 


That's Cornholio to you Mr pedant I'm no pished 

[Thermalsig]

That's Cornholio to you Mr pedant I'm no pished 

Tell it to the judge! Book him Danno!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-1FxQY9794&feature=PlayList&p=90A669AAD4C711E6&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=4

[keasy]

 

LOLZORZ
 

[Wooster]

It's seems to be quite common..

http://jonathanturley.org/2009/03/24/9303/

I ran across that looking for Supreme Court Judge Harry Blackmun.

I heard the letter he wrote, a few months before he died, on the radio today.

"Bruce Edwin Callins will be executed [tomorrow] by the state of Texas. Intravenous tubes attached to his arms will carry the instrument of death, a toxic fluid designed specifically for the purpose of killing human beings. The witnesses...will behold Callins...strapped to a gurney, seconds away from extinction. Within days, or perhaps hours, the memory of Callins will begin to fade. The wheels of justice will churn again, and somewhere, another jury or another judge will have the...task of determining whether some human being is to live or die.

We hope...that the defendant whose life is at risk will be represented by...someone who is inspired by the awareness that a less-than-vigorous defense...could have fatal consequences for the defendant. We hope that the attorney will investigate all aspects of the case, follow all evidentiary and procedural rules, and appear before a judge...committed to the protection of defendants' rights...

But even if we can feel confident that these actors will fulfill their roles...our collective conscience will remain uneasy. Twenty years have passed since this court declared that the death penalty must be imposed fairly and with reasonable consistency or not at all, and despite the effort of the states and courts to devise legal formulas and procedural rules to meet this...challenge, the death penalty remains fraught with arbitrariness, discrimination...and mistake...

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years I have endeavored...to develop...rules that would lend more than the mere appearance of fairness to the death penalty endeavor...Rather than continue to coddle the court's delusion that the desired level of fairness has been achieved...I feel...obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed. It is virtually self-evident to me now that no combination of procedural rules or substantive regulations ever can save the death penalty from its inherent constitutional deficiencies... Perhaps one day this court will develop procedural rules or verbal formulas that actually will provide consistency, fairness and reliability in a capital-sentencing scheme. I am not optimistic that such a day will come. I am more optimistic, though, that this court eventually will conclude that the effort to eliminate arbitrariness while preserving fairness 'in the infliction of [death] is so plainly doomed to failure that it and the death penalty must be abandoned altogether.' (Godfrey v. Georgia, 1980) I may not live to see that day, but I have faith that eventually it will arrive. The path the court has chosen lessen us all."

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[Condor Baggins]

That coming from a judge speaks volumes..