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2007-10-16 -Lurid Crime Tales-

"Cruel and Unusual" To Kill Guy on Death Row After 30 Years?

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Posted by Swamp Blondie 2007-10-16 09:09|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 It may not be cruel but he has a point about it being unusual.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-10-16 11:02|| 2007-10-16 11:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Who stretched out the process for thirty years with endless appeals? You got far more years upon this earth than your victims received at your hands.

Around 18,000 will be murdered this year, down from a high of 24,000 from the 80's. Where is their 'due process', their appeals, their protection from 'cruel and unusual'? When you fix that, come talk to us again about your plight. Notice how we confine ourselves at night? Notice how we worry about where our children are at when night falls? Notice that there are parts of our cities and communities we do not travel to or through? Now, tell me that a death penalty doesn't alter behaviors.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-10-16 11:39|| 2007-10-16 11:39|| Front Page Top

#3 dont count on Arizona letting this guy off.

Posted by Cronter de Medici7423 2007-10-16 11:55|| 2007-10-16 11:55|| Front Page Top

#4 C'mon, Joe Clarence. You're sick of waiting, the state's sick of waiting. The hot shot's a win-win for everybody.

Posted by tu3031 2007-10-16 12:03|| 2007-10-16 12:03|| Front Page Top

#5 Old Sparky is sick of waiting as well.

Posted by Besoeker 2007-10-16 12:12|| 2007-10-16 12:12|| Front Page Top

#6 It is "unusual" because it was not a speedy execution. It was "cruel" only to the victims' families.

Yeah, I'll buy that argument, now take him out and end this farce.

Posted by Xenophon 2007-10-16 12:20|| 2007-10-16 12:20|| Front Page Top

#7 He treated his victims like dirt and then he expects everyone to treat him like a worthwhile human being. Justice is waiting.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-10-16 13:37|| 2007-10-16 13:37|| Front Page Top

#8 He's intentionally dragged out the legal process for this long so thatwith both his parents dead of old agehe can finally demand clemency due to being an orphan.

The only thing long overdue in this particular case is a thorough revamping of the death penalty process to avoid exactly this sort of horseshit.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-16 13:45|| 2007-10-16 13:45|| Front Page Top

#9 It would be cruel to take him out of his death row cell after so many years pondering potential death by injection. The State of Arizona should leave him in his death row cell, mouth taped and full of dirt.

Posted by High Brow 2007-10-16 13:57|| 2007-10-16 13:57|| Front Page Top

#10 "I've got five hundred bucks for the first guy to whack this POS."

It'd take about 15-20 minutes.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2007-10-16 14:38|| 2007-10-16 14:38|| Front Page Top

#11 30 yrs!? WTF.....no more than 3 appeals & a yr waiting to get needled - at the very max is all these jokers rate........what a joke. Our CJ system is broke. Somebody publicly hang this sumbitch & get it over with.

Posted by Broadhead6 2007-10-16 14:53|| 2007-10-16 14:53|| Front Page Top

#12 I don't mind bein' dead
It's just bein' dead so long that gets me

[something to that effect]
--Lightnin' Hopkins, blues singer

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