Posted on 03/06/2010 8:12:24 AM PST by JoeProBono
It’s either one of the more brazen and courageous judicial rulings we’ve heard of in a long time, or one of the most ill-considered examples of judicial activism we’ve heard of in a long time.
Your take on it will likely depend on your take on the death penalty. The news is this, and it’s pretty striking:
A state district judge in Houston granted a pretrial motion declaring the death penalty unconstitutional.
The ruling, made by State District Judge Kevin Fine, came in response to a motion filed by lawyers for a man accused of fatally shooting a Houston woman and wounding her sister on June 16, 2008. The lawyers had argued the procedures surrounding death-penalty jury instructions in the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure violate the Eighth and 14th Amendments prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment and guaranteeing the right of due process.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.wsj.com ...
The same folks who wrote the Constitution hung traitors.
End of story.
Every person in a position of authority believes that they are ordained to “change things!” In short, hyper-individualism or the “I’m a God syndrome.”
Congressman Billybob
In before the Tattoo and Trailer Trash crowd gets here to defend this guy. (Or at least defend his tattoos)
OMG .. I can’t stop laughing.
...nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.
Also the Grand Jury Clause's reference to "capital... crimes". He'll be reversed faster than a Ninth Circuit ruling that's gone to SCOTUS.
Typical self-absorbed leftist.
The answer to your question is in post #7, second paragraph, last five words.
OK, here's the ping you asked for....
Love that!
Oh...I am Pro Death Penalty, BTW.
I have to admit that is a silly tattoo in that picture.
Ping to post #30.....forgot to add the list in the to line....OOPS, one of those days...
Texas has this leetle problem with false convictions and fradulent prosecutions. Not that that's what the judge cited in this case, but Texas's track record for fair trials isn't all that good.
I don’t have tats for any of the reasons you have posted.
(psst it is spelled tattoo) I live with a real biker & he is laughing about your post.
In other words, you don’t really know why everyone gets tats.
Wow, massive projection there......have you tried meditation or deep breathing to rid yourself of that anger?
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