[FoxNews] A judge in Alabama has issued a stay for a convicted killer's upcoming execution while state officials investigate whether he is competent enough to be put to death.
David Lee Roberts, 59, was scheduled to be executed on Aug. 21 for the 1992 shooting death of Annetra Jones, but Marion County Circuit Judge Talmage Lee Carter temporarily stayed the execution until it can be determined if Roberts has a "rational understanding" of what would happen to him.
"Or similarly put, the issue is whether the petitioner's concept of reality is so impaired that he cannot grasp the execution’s meaning and the purpose or the link between his crime and its punishment," he wrote in the ruling.
Carter said the execution will remain on hold until the Alabama Department of Mental Health concludes its report on Roberts.
Roberts was set to die by nitrogen gas, a controversial method Alabama began using last year when convicted killer Kenneth Smith was executed in January 2024.
Attorneys representing Roberts argue that his death sentence should be suspended because he has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
Roberts' attorneys said in a court filing that he hears voices and is delusional, adding that he also recently attempted to burn tattoos off his arm and leg because he believed they "are trying to control his thoughts."
"This evidence demonstrates Mr. Roberts is incompetent to be executed because his delusions prevent him from having a factual or rational understanding of the reason," his attorneys said.
The Alabama attorney general’s office is not appealing the stay, although the state has asked that the competency evaluation be expedited.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states cannot execute inmates who are insane and do not understand their upcoming execution and the reasons for it, but Alabama law does not provide a clear standard on what courts must find in evaluating a person's competency to be executed.
Roberts murdered Jones in Marion County on April 22, 1992, while he was staying at a house her boyfriend lived in.
Prosecutors said Roberts arrived at the home, packed his belongings, stole money and shot Jones three times in the head with a .22 caliber rifle while she was sleeping on the couch. He then poured flammable liquid on her body and the floor and set the house on fire.
Jurors convicted him of capital murder and voted 7-5 that he receive life in prison without parole. However, a judge overrode that recommendation and sentenced him to death.
Alabama no longer allows judges to override jury sentences in capital cases.
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Do we worry about the 'mental competency' of a dog that mauls and kills a child before we put it down? Were the original judicial proceedings legal and in order? If so, there is no reason to delay.
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"stayed the execution until it can be determined if Roberts has a "rational understanding" of what would happen to him" So he needs to be able to learn from his execution?
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What if you had an insane person kill him? Would that just cancel out?
Posted by: Super Hose ||
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Thought of the day.
Isn't having a convicted murderer wait more than
5 years for execution, cruel and unusual punishment?
Let's correct this for both, the Murderer and the victim's family, by setting a time limit for all appeals to be heard.
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Commentary by Russian military journalist is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] Whomever has been reading this blog for a long time knows that I have drawn and draw a direct parallel between the current situation in Europe and the work of George Orwell. Sometimes they wrote to me that you exaggerate and even slander European rights and freedoms.
Well, here it is. Now the US State Department is also accusing Europe of this. "This law protects only European leaders from their own citizens": the US criticizes Europe for "Orwellian" censorship
The administration of US President Donald Trump sharply criticized the power of the European Union, accusing them of restricting freedom of speech. The reason for this was the European law regulating the work of social networks and online platforms. In the statement of the American State Department, published on X social networks, these norms are called "Orwellian" censorship.
"This Orwellian message will not deceive the United States. Censorship is not freedom," the message says.
The American State Department claims that thousands of people have been punished for criticizing the authorities because of the aforementioned law.
"This law protects only European leaders from their own citizens," the State Department said. We are talking about the European Digital Services Act (DSA), which came into force in February 2024. The norms prescribed in it, in particular, oblige search systems to remove "illegal content" and "disinformation", as well as to provide the authorities with up-to-date information on the number of users.
Earlier, suspicions of a DSA violation became the reason for an investigation launched by the European authorities regarding the Telegram messenger. As reported, the latter was accused of not providing accurate data on the number of its European users.
So, in August of last year, representatives of Telegram, instead of a specific figure, informed the authorities only that the platform has "significantly less than 45 million active users per month in the EU." Such an answer is probably related to another rule prescribed in the DSA, according to which online platforms, the number of users of which exceeds 45 million active users per month, are subject to strict obligations for moderation, compliance with EU requirements, third-party audits and mandatory information exchange with the European Commission.
It is a rare case when it is even possible to formally agree with the US State Department. But of course, the problem is not only and not so much in this law, since "Orwellism" has already defeated Europe for a long time and systematically on many levels. Well, of course, it is worth remembering that Orwell wrote his books not about the communist world, but about Western society. Life put everything in its place.
You can see it in every flailing move, every desperate media blitz, and every attempt to deflect from the deep, unresolved questions about the origins of Russiagate. The architects of the infamous hoax—Barack Obama, John Brennan, James Clapper, and James Comey—have all been exposed, thanks to the tenacity of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who recently dropped declassified documents implicating the Obama-era intelligence cabal in concocting and perpetuating the false Russia narrative that hounded President Donald Trump throughout his first term.
The stakes are real. Gabbard’s release didn’t just shine a light on the feverish efforts to smear Trump; it laid bare how these intelligence heavyweights cobbled together artificial intel on Trump while deliberately concealing explosive evidence that raised grave concerns about Hillary Clinton’s fitness for office.
Yeah, we’re not forgetting about that.
The legacy media is once again doing damage control—this time by rolling out anonymous Obama allies to accuse Trump and Gabbard of fabricating "treason" claims to distract from the Epstein scandal. It’s a transparent attempt to spin the narrative and pressure Republicans into ignoring the growing pile of evidence.
[AmericanThinker] The great Satchel Paige once said, “Don’t look back -- something may be gaining on you.” Well, I think for Barack Obama and his cohort, something is gaining on them, and so, too, I believe it is happening now for those who engaged with Jeffrey Epstein in his illicit activities. Stuff kept hidden by the wrongdoers in the Obama and Biden administrations is coming to light, and you can expect they will amp up their deflection and distraction moves to keep the focus off what they did. Surely many people with the concentration span of a few minutes and the critical thinking abilities of a Lego piece will fall for it. You shouldn’t.
Tuesday, DNI head Tulsi Gabbard released a report that declassified reams of material gathered by the House Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations which detailed how the Obama Administration -- at his direction -- manufactured the hoax that Trump colluded with Russia to gain the presidency. I don’t see much coverage of this in the legacy press, but online accounts have summarized the most salient portions in case you aren’t up to reading and analyzing the entire report.
The top distillations I found are by attorney Jeff Childers, Matt Taibbi, and Professor Margot Cleveland.
Matt, who’s been saying for years that Russiagate was a hoax, details how Russiagate was built on bogus, even “ridiculous” information which was contradicted by professionals in the intelligence community whom John Brennan ignored: Read the rest at the link Continued on Page 47
[NY Post] Democrats’ approval rating with registered voters has plunged to a 35-year low, while Republicans maintain an edge on most of the top issues Americans care about, a new poll found.
A whopping 63% of registered voters view Democrats unfavorably, dramatically eclipsing the 33% who had a positive impression, marking the lowest rating they scored since 1990, according to a Wall Street Journal survey.
That abysmal rating for Democrats comes against the backdrop of lackluster figures for President Trump and Republicans. Trump’s approval rating sits at 46%, with 52% who disapprove of the commander in chief. The figure is higher than this point during his first term, which was 40%.
Republicans’ approval rating clocked in at a net seven points unfavorable.
If congressional elections were held today, 46% of voters indicated they’d back a Democrat, compared to 43% who would support a Republican.
A majority, 51%, also said the change Trump is bringing has resulted in dysfunction and chaos, compared to 45% who agreed the president was making positive adjustments.
Still, across the board, voters preferred the GOP approach over the Dem position on a range of key issues.
Voters trusted Republicans over Democrats on inflation by about 10 points; on immigration by 17 points; and handling illegal immigrants by 17 points, the survey found.
In one unique finding, respondents disapproved of Trump’s tariffs by 17 points and Republicans still scored 7 points higher than Democrats on that issue.
“The Democratic brand is so bad that they don’t have the credibility to be a critic of Trump or the Republican Party,” John Anzalone, a Democratic pollster who helped conduct the survey, told the outlet.
“Until they reconnect with real voters and working people on who they’re for and what their economic message is, they’re going to have problems.”
Anzalone teamed up with Republican Tony Fabrizio, Trump’s trusted pollster during the 2024 campaign cycle, to conduct the survey for the Wall Street Journal.
One area where congressional Democrats topped Republicans was vaccine policy and healthcare, per the poll.
Democrats are still reeling from their 2024 election loss, and key figures within the party have openly vented that the party doesn’t have a strong message or sense of direction.
Typically, the party out of power in the White House is favored to have a strong performance in the midterm elections, which is why many observers believe the Democrats are well-positioned heading into 2026.
However, the Wall Street Journal poll shows Democrats are still remarkably anemic as the party struggles to find its footing.
Around this time in 2017, voters called themselves Democrats over Republicans by 6 percentage points, per the poll. Democrats later went on to flip 40 House seats in the 2018 midterm elections.
This go-around, Republicans have a 1-point edge in party identification over Democrats.
Republicans have a threadbare 219 to 212 House majority and are scrambling to defy history by retaining control during the 2026 midterms.
The Wall Street Journal poll sampled 1,500 registered voters between July 16–20 with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points.
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It’s not even one of the accurate polls how bad will the Rasmussen Reports numbers be?
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How many disapprove - BUT WILL STILL VOTE D EVERY TIME?
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Fewer than they need
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what the poll didn't measure was where the disapproval was coming from
certainly some Dems think the party has gotten too woke and that accounts for the disapproval
but a lot of Dems think the party has not gotten woke enough or not enough commie or not enough anti Israel
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33% have a favorable view of Dems? That high? Better look at the polling and pollers.
[NYPOST] Notorious sex criminal Ghislaine Maxwell answered questions from Justice Department officials about ''100 different people'' linked to late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, an attorney for the disgraced socialite claimed Friday following two days of interrogation led by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche during which she was reportedly granted limited immunity.
David Oscar Markus told reporters that his client, currently serving a 20-year sentence after being convicted in Manhattan of federal sex trafficking and conspiracy charges in December 2021, was ''asked about every possible thing you could imagine — everything.''
''This was the first opportunity she's ever been given to answer questions about what happened,'' Markus added. ''The truth will come out about what happened with Mr. Epstein and she's the person who's answering those questions.''
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People like Spacey are probably hoping that they were unimportant enough to be person 101.
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Spacey's into boys
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There were likely boys on the island or Obama would not have visited. Bondi has not been asked if it was all girls, nor has she been asked if anyone other than the two appear in the video. Neither has she been asked if she has figured out whether intelligence was involved. The questioners either really suck or they are part of the coverup.
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all the victims suing G Maxwell are women (girls at the time of their association w Maxwell)
there are a lot of photos of girls and young women at the resort on Little Saint James island - no photos contain people identifiable as boys as of yet
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[HUMANEVENTS] Wealthy nations that fail to limit their fossil fuel use and reduce pollution could be held financially liable by countries most affected by climate change, says the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... ' top court in a new opinion issued Wednesday.
The 15-judge International Court of Justice (ICJ), based in The Hague, Netherlands, concluded that international treaties require developed countries to curb global warming and oversee the climate impact of companies operating under their jurisdiction.
''States must cooperate to achieve concrete emission reduction targets,'' said Judge Yuji Iwasawa, according to Fox News. ''Greenhouse gas emissions are unequivocally caused by human activities which are not territorially limited.''
The court warned that nations which do not fulfill their obligations could face ''full reparations to injured states in the form of restitution, compensation and satisfaction provided that the general conditions of the law of state responsibility are met,'' according to the ruling.
The ICJ's opinion came in response to a request from a group of developing nations and small island states, which argue they are facing existential threats from rising sea levels and climate-related disasters.
They sought legal clarity after the 2015 Gay Paree Agreement failed to halt the rise in global greenhouse gas emissions.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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[FoxNews] A judge in Alabama has issued a stay for a convicted killer's upcoming execution while state officials investigate whether he is competent enough to be put to death.
[NYPOST] Notorious sex criminal Ghislaine Maxwell answered questions from Justice Department officials about ''100 different people'' linked to late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, an attorney for the disgraced socialite claimed Friday following two days of interrogation led by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche during which she was reportedly granted limited immunity. 
[HUMANEVENTS] Wealthy nations that fail to limit their fossil fuel use and reduce pollution could be held financially liable by countries most affected by climate change, says the 
