~ Candidate Tim Kaine, 2005
News Alert: A Democrat lies. Film at 11.
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Now Kaine just needs to sign an order to put all murders on hold while the supremes deliberate.
I suppose Tim Kaine, in his respect of life, is also closing down all of the state's abortion clinics, because the Supreme Court has yet to decide on whether or not slaughtering unborn children is also cruel and unusual punishment.
Courts are not allowing executions until the SC decision anyway. What’s the difference?
He has not commuted any death sentences.
On the day of execution, wire the guy up for those EKG’s (or whatever they’re called), wait for deep sleep to occur, put a bullet through the head.
I’m writing the son of a bitch today about this matter. He promised to uphold Va. law, especially when it came to cases where there was absolutely iron-clad evidence of captial murder involving the death of a law enforcement officer.
Edward Nathaniel Bell
Date of Birth: September 12, 1964
Sex: Male
Race: Black
Entered the Row: May 30, 2001
District: Winchester
Conviction: Capital Murder
Virginia DOC Inmate Number: 294604
Edward Nathaniel Bell was charged in the shooting death of Sgt. Ricky L. Timbrook, 32, from the Winchester police Department during a late evening police chase on Oct. 29, 1999. Police found Bell in the basement of a house near the shooting and was initially charged with burglary.[i] Evidence against Bell included the tight police perimeter around the crime scene on the night of the shooting.
Extensive media coverage, including flyers with pictures of the victim’s family outside the courthouse during trial did not restrain Judge Dennis L. Hupp from holding the criminal proceedings in Winchester Circuit Court in January 2001. During trial, prosecutors testified that Bell shot Timbrook because he had arrested him in 1997 for carrying a concealed weapon and Bell has feared that Timbrook would find a gun or drugs. Bell is a Jamaican national.
The prosecution introduced a witness who testified that Bell told him if he ever encountered Timbrook again, he would shoot him in the head since he knew police wore bullet-proof vests. A single shot to the head killed Timbrook.
Defense introduced evidence that showed a second individual was in the vicinity of the shooting at the same time and could have easily been the actual shooter. DNA from the gun came from at least three individuals and could not conclusively link Bell to the gun. Nonetheless, after deliberating for only three hours, an all-white jury of nine women and three men convicted Bell of capital murder and recommended that Bell be sentenced to death. At the formal sentencing hearing on May 30, 2001, Circuit Judge Dennis L. Hupp confirmed the jury’s sentence.[ii] On June 7, 2002, the Virginia Supreme Court upheld Bell’s conviction.[iii]
Bell was to be executed on Jan. 7, 2005, but U.S. District Judge James Jones of Abingdon issued a stay of execution—pending Bell’s full appeals process in federal court.[iv] Since then, Winchester Commonwealth Attorney Alexander R. Iden sent a letter to trial court jurors informing them that they did not have to cooperate with investigators for the defense.[v]
Hang ‘em high.