Death Penalty Ruled Unconstitutional

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[wallcrawlr]

MONTPELIER, Vt. –– A federal judge declared the federal death penalty unconstitutional Tuesday in the second such ruling in less than three months.

U.S. District Judge William Sessions said the law does not adequately protect defendants' rights.

"If the death penalty is to be part of our system of justice, due process of law and the fair trial guarantees of the Sixth Amendment require that standards and safeguards governing the kinds of evidence juries may consider must be rigorous, and constitutional rights and liberties scrupulously protected," he said.

[johnb838]

Grrrrr....

[Burkeman1]

This case will most likely be oberturned in days. The judge in this case should be impeached and removed from the bench- waste of everyone's time.

[Southack]

This sort of judicial activism nonsense will stop as soon as the Senate fulfills its Constitutional duty to review and impeach such rogue judges.

But a Senate majority of Democrats isn't going to do that...

[cuz_it_aint_their_money]

You know......
If we just revoke Vermont's statehood, all their liberal B.S. wouldn't make any difference anyway.

Just a suggestion. :~D

[marshmallow]

Is he referring to abortion?

[DoughtyOne]

Insane. The courts provide the very protections this lunatic sites today. Impeach the bastard!

Thanks to idiots like him we have Charles Manson, Sirhan Sirhan, a number of Manson diciples and others in prison today, coming up for parole hearings ever few years.

[hchutch]

True, but how will we get a Senate that might be willing to take such measures?

The best option is the Republicans. I remember back when Judge Harold Baer made his BS ruling - all it took was the THREAT of impeachment and he backtracked.

[Huck]

It has no affect on state death penalties. Who cares?

[bonesmccoy]

Wow... let's give them to Quebec!

In return we'd get the Senate back, and Leahy can go commune with the socialists in Canada

[OldFriend]

The judge in the Buffalo 6 case is another who has decided that the law, passed in 1998, is troubling and he doesn't want to adhere to that law.

He wants to consider only the consitution not the war on terror.

Seems just training in a terror camp, writing emails describing acts of terror, and planning terror does not make one a terrorist in this judge's mind.

[Huck]

The Feds never should have been so onvolved in criminal penalties anyway. Leave it to the states, and officiate on their compliance with the US Constitution.

[HELLRAISER II]

Roughly translated: There's going to be a lot of Vigilante's taking the law into their own hands, because justice will be the last thing accomplished if this takes precedence.

[Carbonsteel]

I always thought that to be a sick irony.

Liberals adamantly opposed the death penalty for cold-blooded killers, yet support the murder of unborn innocents on demand.

[cuz_it_aint_their_money]

Hey, Works for me! :~D

[Texas Mom]

We need to get a republican majority in the Senate to approve Bush's nominees

Right now with the Dems in charge we will just have more and more of the same ole same ole.

[Numbers Guy]

So, did the judge order that Timothy McVeigh be resurrected?

[chuknospam]

This is in regards to the Death Penalty for Federal Crimes i.e. OK City & McVeigh. Has no bearing on state executions. Feds don't often execute but with the terrorist situation, that could change.

[Texas Mom]

Wow.. How did I do that?