Posted on 11/09/2009 10:19:13 AM PST by rdl6989
The Supreme Court Monday denied John Allen Muhammad's request to stay his execution, clearing the way for Virginia to put to death the man who terrorized the Washington region as the Beltway Sniper.
Justices John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor objected to the court's haste, saying it "highlights once again the perversity of executing inmates before their appeals process have been fully concluded."
Stevens, writing for the three, said Virginia had short-circuited the process by scheduling Muhammad's execution for Tuesday night, earlier than the court would normally have reviewed his petition for the court to take his case.
"By denying Muhammad's stay application, we have allowed Virginia to truncate our deliberative process on a matter -- involving a death row inmate -- that demands the most careful attention," Stevens wrote.
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Let him stand in a parking lot for hours...........waiting for the bullet.
It’s good to see Sotomayor already siding with the criminal terrorists.
Yeah, don't let the fact that the guy was caught with the murder weapon in his car get in the way of beating the appeals horse to death.
Studpid ass Latina woman, sissy man, and Elvira Gulch all dissented....I’m shocked....
Stevens, Vader, and Sotomayor. Big surprise there huh?
This evil man had the whole metro area in a panic with good reason.
Traveling 95 or the beltway, going to the store or just stopping at a rest area was terrifying.
~Not to mention how many times my poor bro, owner of a white panel truck was pulled over by cops with guns drawn.
We must be politically correct, dontchaknow.
It could have been stopped earlier had that b@@##$% in the Prince George’s police brought out the true facts, but then the true facts wouldn’t have fit the PC agenda.
How bout the ‘perversity’ of killing all those innocent victims?
All of them should die for their crimes. Muhammed will die Tuesday, Akbar has been sentenced to die...and I belive Hasan will be too.
Sadly though, I do not expect the current occupant of the White House to form in direct, meaningful, or effective response to the situation of these enemies operating within.
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA'S UPBRINGING
Too bad we don’t have burning at the stake anymore.
So...the way these idiot SC justices figure it, this guilty islamic muslim terrorist should be able to finish his bachelors, masters, and doctoral education....date some girls....marry....raise his family....send his kids all the way through our wonderful US public education system....have some grandchildren...and die peacefully surrounded by his loved ones at age 94.....all the while his entire life being paid for by us sucker tax payers....and the string of appeals will run their course and end two days after his peaceful death.
Of course, he'll be found guilty and his execution justified.
Yeah....I figure that's what Soto-mayer and the rest would like to see.
PULL!
Must suck to be him, today and tomorrow. After that, no more problems.
Well, firing squad will work. I'll pull the trigger and I promise not to miss the target.
The ‘Target’ will be his gut, being careful to miss the spine or any organs that would cause him to bleed out.
I'll use a varmint rifle that will explode and expend all it's energy in the target. His guts will explode into tiny fragments of bile filled goo. It will take hours, or days, of agony before he dies.
He would have wished his death would have been as quick and painless as burning at the stake!!
Let gravity do the rest.
“highlights once again the perversity of executing inmates before their appeals process have been fully concluded.” Trumped by the perversity of executing innocent citizens without any chance for appeal of a death sentence.
So, the Wise Latina Woman likes Muslim terrorists, does she?
Well, that figures. Obama knew what he was getting.
You can smash his knee cap a week before he is gut-shot in the firing squad.
Invite him to the WH for a beer.
“highlights once again the perversity of executing inmates before their appeals process have been fully concluded.”
The appeals process IS concluded.
The other justices said so.
You just don’t like what they said!
Soak him in PIG lard.
Put a few pigs in his cell.
Feed him bacon, ham, and sausage.
Don’t forget the pork chops and fatback.
I’d be willing to bet that Virgina governor Kaine will delay or grant clemency at the last moment. What does the lib, Jesuit missionary and Harvard lawyer have to lose? He’s out the door in six weeks or so.
I hope you’re wrong. One thing he must consider is the impact on his future viability and the viability of Democrats who might be able to give him a job.
Mike Dukasis granted a pardon to those murdering bastards Sacco and Vanzetti in the 1980’s, far too late to do them any good. (As one wag observed, if he had 10,000 or so anthropophages in his consituency he would have found ocassion to make a favorable reference to canniblism.) The Duke did not pardon any real criminals, despite his sympathy for them, for the same reason: he wanted to maintain his viability.
I’m of two minds about public executions. For the law to be seen as deterrent a prospective criminal must have a reaonable fear that he will be caught and punished and must indeed fear the punishment.
It is painfully obvious that our current criminal justice system is woefully adequate for the task. One problem is that the probability of capture and conviction is demonstrably low. Most solved murders involve family members or friends where there are lots of witnesses. If you, or anyone else, decided to go out this evening and kill a stranger for thrills the chance of your detection and conviction are minute. John Mohammed demonstrates this: he committed the same crime over and over in the same geographic area using the same vehicle and same MO and it took dozens of murders and months to capture him.
Even if convicted, punishment is generally laughably light or interminably delayed. Most people on “death row” far outlive the actuarial expectations that they would have if left to their own. They would almost all have died far sooner by drug and alcohol abuse, misadventure or at the hands of another murderer if left unconvicted. What are the chances that Charles Manson would be alive today if he hadn’t spent the last fory years in jail?
Only in modern America does being convicted of a capital crime substantially and immediately increaser your life expectancy.
Justice would have the evil bastards receiving swift and equal punishment for their crime.
I wasn’t clear. My point is: excessively gruesome punishments would lead to legal and public backlash, diminishing the likelihood of anyone ever being executed. I would prefer that rather than being cruel and unusual, the death penalty be quick and much more commonplace. You want to shift the calculus of retribution to make deterence possible.
Where but in this benighted country does being convicted of a capital crime raise your standard of living and increase your life expectancy?
The pain he feels would be equal to that inflicted on his victems.
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