Posted on 09/30/2018 3:06:59 PM PDT by EveningStar
Without being aware of it, Vernon Madison might become a footnote in constitutional law because he is barely aware of anything. For more than 30 years, Alabama, with a tenacity that deserves a better cause, has been trying to execute him for the crime he certainly committed, the 1985 murder of a police officer. Twice the state convicted him unconstitutionally (first excluding African Americans from the jury, then insinuating inadmissible evidence into the record). In a third trial, the judge, who during his time on the bench overrode more life sentences (six) than any other Alabama judge, disregarded the jury’s recommended sentence of life imprisonment and imposed the death penalty...
His counsel of record, Bryan A. Stevenson, head of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Ala., says it was undisputed in the penalty phase of Madison’s third trial that he already “suffered from a mental illness marked by paranoid delusions.” ...
Madison’s case compels us to focus on the death penalty in its granular reality: Assisting someone who is non-ambulatory, and bewildered because he is (in Stevenson's phrase) “memory-disordered,” to be strapped down so an executioner can try to find a vein — often a problem with the elderly — to receive a lethal injection. Capital punishment is withering away because the process of litigating the administration of it is so expensive, and hence disproportionate to any demonstrable enhancement of public safety, but also because of a healthy squeamishness that speaks well of us...
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Abolish George Will.
When can we abolish George Will?
F U G W
Someone comes along and dismembers your wife, children, mom, dad, sibling, or other family member or friends and associates, you can weap for the perp all you want.
Don’t expect me to.
Purge society of these animals.
Pfft! Take him out.
If by “abolish” he means “speed up execution of” then I’m in agreement.
George, nobody gives a damn what you think.
Right after you hang.
What brought this on?
Are the Clintons getting worried about being caught again?
Once you’ve succumbed to TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome), going full lib is the logical next step.
The UniParty wants it abolished before they’re all prosecuted for sedition and/or treason, especially some of the more well-known names.
No. It’s not going to be abolished. Instead, it’s fixing to be put to good use...hopefully, very soon.
The firing squad works fine George, if finding a vein concerns you. Guillotine works well too.
I’m against the death penalty for everyone but George Will.
The death penalty is literally IN the Constitution. Is Will supposing an amendment could pass?
George Will is alive?!!!!
Who knew?!!! More importantly who cares what this turd thinks,
Death wish
Even his ramblings about baseball went off the rails long ago.
I will ONLY agree to Abolishing the DEATH PENALTY FOR GUILTY CRIMINALS....
IF we can ABOLISH the DEATH PENALTY FOR INNOCENT BUT INCONVENIENT BABIES!
MAKE THE DEAL OR LEAVE GEORGE WILL!
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