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1 posted on 07/23/2004 8:17:03 PM PDT by nuconvert

We do 'em up right in Florida. We've got a good old one in St. Augustine also.

2 posted on 07/23/2004 8:24:22 PM PDT by js1138 (In a minute there is time, for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. J Forbes Kerry)

To: nuconvert; js1138; Bonaparte

Didn't the US Supreme Court rule in the early 1970s that the death penalty as it was applied at that time was uncontitutional? As I recall the death rows of all the states were emptied due to this ruling. If he was convicted in 1984 for the murder that was committed in 1966, then he had to have been convicted under the laws that existed in 1966.

I'm just curious how the federal courts ever let the death sentence stand at all in this case. How old is this convict now? If he committed murder in 1966 (almost 38 years ago), he couldn't be young.

4 posted on 07/23/2004 10:32:06 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative (Do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)

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