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2021-10-06 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Convicted murderer Ernie Johnson enjoys his last taxpayer funded prison meal

[BBC] A Missouri man has been executed for murder despite pleas for clemency by advocates who said he had an intellectual disability.
He's not being put down because he's stupid.
Ernest Johnson received a lethal injection on Tuesday after the US Supreme Court refused to consider a stay of execution earlier in the day.

The 61-year-old's pleas for leniency had received support from Pope Francis and two members of Congress.

Johnson killed three convenience store workers in a 1994 robbery.
Y'see, we got a right to a speedy trial. Sez so right in the Constitution. It only took 27 years to dispose of Ernie.
Attorneys for Johnson argued he was ineligible for the death penalty because multiple IQ tests have shown he has the mental capacity of a child and still reads at a third-grade level.
A brutal child, but still a child.
Johnson, a black man, was born with foetal alcohol syndrome after his mother drank heavily during her pregnancy.
Y'see, it's all Mom's fault.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-10-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 he had an intellectual disability.

An inability to grasp that other people are human too?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-10-06 05:49|| 2021-10-06 05:49|| Front Page Top

#2 His "disability" has now been overcome. What should have taken 27 days to achieve, took 27 years.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-10-06 05:51|| 2021-10-06 05:51|| Front Page Top

#3
Well he "had" the brains to:
* Acquire a firearm,
* Learn how to load and use it,
* Know it would hurt or kill people if shot,
* Make 3 trips to the store that day to plan the robbery,
* Knowledge to Acquire $$$ for illegal drugs,

* Rob the store after using drugs (cocaine), shooting, stabbing and bludgeoning Bratcher, Jones and Scruggs in the process.

* Then threaten and order persons to hide robbery evidence.

* Assist in his defense and 3+/- retrials and multiple escalating appeals.

So my figuring of 5 years to get to the SCOTUS, I think he played the system 22 years too long for any Justice to have been done.

Posted by NN2N1 2021-10-06 08:19|| 2021-10-06 08:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Kim Kardashian is doing her media thing opposing the execution of Rodney Reed in Texas. Where was she on this one?

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-10-06 08:24|| 2021-10-06 08:24|| Front Page Top

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