Posted on 02/03/2016 12:19:36 AM PST by nickcarraway
Georgia executed a 72-year-old man, its oldest death row inmate, early Wednesday for the killing of a convenience store manager during a robbery decades ago.
Brandon Astor Jones was pronounced dead at 12:46 a.m. Wednesday after an injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson. He was convicted in the 1979 shooting death of suburban Atlanta store manager Roger Tackett.
Jones declined to make a final statement in front of witnesses but agreed to have a prayer read.
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Well if they had done it sooner he wouldn’t have needed to be the eldest person to be executed, now would he?
**oldest
36 years justice denied.
I despise the way these articles are written, articles never mention the victim did not get a trial,jury and years of appeals.
The victim is executed on the spot- no appeal.
Then the perps are afforded all legal protections of civilized society-
I don't know about that.
The way it turned out he got 36 years in prison, which was probably not a lot of fun, plus he was executed.
Yup...he lived two years past his Biblical "three score and ten" and the good taxpayers of GA provided three hots and a cot right along with paying his lawyers, too. I think that adds up to a win for the killer, a win for lawyers, and a lose for the taxpayers. Since there's no mention of a comment from the victim's family, it's possible this miscarriage of justice even outlived them so that's another loss.
“The way it turned out he got 36 years in prison, which was probably not a lot of fun...”
They appeal and appeal in order to live. In prison. Prison is more fun than dying. Death is the only thing that hardened killers can comprehend. In prison, they can stroke their own egos, telling themselves how they are being victimized. How they are more clever. More important than anyone else. They are satisfied with their deeds and justify them in their own depraved minds. Oh, yes. Egotistical criminals will do anything to keep themselves alive...even in prison.
Wonder what his last meal was?
Although he doesn’t deserve it, (none of us do) I hope the final prayer saved his soul from hell.
Well, out of all the people on death row, somebody’s got to be “the oldest”.
37 years is just bullcrap. Heck the mudering scvumbag likely outlived many of the victims family and friends. Nonsense. Any death sentence anywhere should be a maximum of 7 years before being carried out.
Hey, he was just a poor, old, guy being picked on by law enforcement.
I am against execution by painless injection, unless it can be carried out sooner than 36 years, then whatever method used is acceptable.
There just seems to be something wrong with having a nice, easy, exit from this world, when your innocent, hardworking victim was on his knees in some shabby storeroom under fluorescent lights, probably begging for his life.
And then the murderer gets to live the rest of his natural life span because of an appeal that had something to do with bringing a bible in the courtroom, and you get hagiographic and sympathetic CBS articles written about you being some old guy on death row?
Amazing.
I agree.
What does this guys age have to do with it? Are they trying to imply the poor old fellow needs to be in a nursing home instead of the death chamber? If he killed someone, and has had ample time to prove he’s innocent, he should receive his just due.
appeals are lawyer welfare
‘bout time.
I agree.
“Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed quickly, therefore the hearts of the sons of men among them are given fully to do evil.”
Oops, forgot the reference: Eccl 8:11
Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed quickly, therefore the hearts of the sons of men among them are given fully to do evil.
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