Posted on 10/19/2016 1:53:55 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister
The southern US state of Georgia was preparing Wednesday to execute a man convicted of killing a police officer, after the state parole board denied a request for clemency.
Gregory Lawler, 63, was set to die by lethal injection at 7 pm (2300 GMT) at a prison in Jackson, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) outside Atlanta, prison authorities said.
According to court documents, Lawler during a domestic dispute in 1997 opened fire with an AR-15 rifle on two officers at his home, killing one and seriously wounding the other.
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Nineteen years too long he was allowed to breath.
He wants to feast on a rib eye steak, a baked potato with sour cream, asparagus, dinner rolls with butter, French onion soup, strawberries, pistachio ice cream and apple juice.
His victim got no such request.
Bring back Ole Sparky.
Or lethal injection....of lead.
Fry the fu**er!!!
That being said, I definitely get your meaning.
I am a God fearing man, but I find civility in this matter to be unnecessary.
1997 ... that probably cost us a pretty penny.
Continued his life longer than the cops he shot. Unjustifiable. Guy in Saudi was executed after three years which is still too long. The guy who shot Garfield was executed a bit less than a year after conviction. Now twenty or thirty years is normal.
Civility is a good thing. It means we’re the better person in the situation. That we still believe in a good higher than man’s carnal nature. Unlike the typical Hillary supporter...
Buh bye
As with a disproportionate number of executees, the guy actually having the sentence carried out is white.
The death penalty is administered in a discriminatory manner against white males.
The guy who tried to assassinate FDR was executed in something like two weeks.
I am a little different when it comes to people who kill in the heat of anger. I don’t care if it is a cop, that is not first degree murder in the traditional sense.
This guy put six bullets in each police officer. He had to pull the trigger twelve times. That seems a bit more than “heat of anger” as you put it.
I agree. That’s why we only give out death for murder 1. This guy fit the crime, so he gets the needle.
That said, I predict that if Hillary is elected, besides Heller and Citizens United, you’re going to see the death penalty struck down on 8th amendment grounds. Doesn’t matter that we’ve been handing down death sentences from before the Constitution was ratified. It’s now living and breathing and has told there high court that it wants progressive power grabs.
The murderer of Anton Cermak met OLD SPARKY about 40 days after he attempted to kill FDR.
Then the do-gooders ruined everything.
Good riddance. Since the evidence was cast iron and his guilt undeniable, he should have been executed within days of his conviction.
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Yes, and the fact that these animals are not promptly executed is a primary reason that even law-abiding citizens have very little respect for the country’s judiciary.
Missed FDR and shot the mayor of Chicago instead and that was pretty quick. Didn’t mess around back then. Today the appeals would include him being denied milk and cookies when he was a kid which caused ...etc etc etc
Civility is a good thing. It means we’re the better person in the situation. That we still believe in a good higher than man’s carnal nature. Unlike the typical Hillary supporter...
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Depends on one’s definition of “civility”. In this context, yours seems a bit incongruous.
Nineteen years of wasted taxpayer money.
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