This shooting... it didn't happen in Jasper County Georgia, by any chance?
Posted on 02/02/2016 2:08:51 PM PST by rickmichaels
Georgia’s oldest death row inmate, who was convicted in the 1979 killing of a convenience store manager, is set to be executed Tuesday.
Brandon Astor Jones, 72, is scheduled to be put to death by injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital at 7 p.m. at the state prison in Jackson. He was convicted in the shooting death of Cobb County convenience store manager Roger Tackett.
The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles, which is the only entity in Georgia authorized to commute a death sentence, on Monday declined to grant clemency for Jones. As is its custom, the board did not give any reason for the denial.
The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal that claimed Jones’ death sentence is disproportionate to the crime.
Also Tuesday, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to give a full-court hearing to a challenge to the constitutionality of the state’s execution secrecy law. The law classifies as a confidential state secret the identity of any person or entity involved in an execution, including the drug producer.
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They're going to convince him he's been in a coma, and that Hillary wasn't elected. That'll kill him.
This shooting... it didn't happen in Jasper County Georgia, by any chance?
States really, truly need to enact a firing squad alternative to lethal injection, along with a judicial requirement to include it as an “alternative” means of execution in case the primary means is disallowed.
A firing squad setup is cheap, easy, quick to set up, can use any LEO as a rifleman, uses a wooden platform to hold the rifles, and is impossible to block by denying equipment or skill. As a means of execution, it is extremely difficult to challenge.
So after all the effort to block lethal injection, including denial of the drugs used, refusal of a medical expert to administer it, etc. The state can immediately say, “Fine. Shoot him.”
J%k kfi...said the other day the number is 700 on death row. I think 3 from the 70’s
Currently, 19 states and the D.C. do not have the death penalty. As it should be, it is a state matter and the U.S.S.C. should have no say in the matter.
Tenneco is a blast from the past. They used to start the local price wars at the local stations. 25 cents a gallon back then :0)
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