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Days before execution, killer controls fate
The Boston Globe ^ | January 23, 2005 | Brian MacQuarrie

Posted on 01/23/2005 4:51:20 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

HARTFORD -- At 2:01 a.m. Wednesday, an executioner chosen by the state of Connecticut is scheduled to send a lethal flow of three drugs into the veins of Michael B. Ross, a sexual sadist who murdered six teenagers and two young women in the 1980s. The drama that precedes executions in the United States usually involves head-to-head combat between supporters and opponents, as appeals make their way through the courts. But here, the death row inmate himself holds the most dramatic card: whether to go through with the execution, as he has said he wants, or to make an 11th-hour request for a stay.

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: capitalpunishment; crime; execution
And yet some people have sympathy for this vermin.
1 posted on 01/23/2005 4:51:21 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Couldn't get to the story by either link you had. Just letting you know.

I wonder how successful this man will be? Hopefully, the execution gets carried out at the appointed time, anyway, I'm sure the victims' families would welcome it heartily.


2 posted on 01/23/2005 4:55:32 PM PST by Theresawithanh (2005! My resolution: FReep even MORE this year!!!)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Couldn't get to the story by either link you had. Just letting you know.

I wonder how successful this man will be? Hopefully, the execution gets carried out at the appointed time, anyway, I'm sure the victims' families would welcome it heartily.


3 posted on 01/23/2005 4:55:53 PM PST by Theresawithanh (2005! My resolution: FReep even MORE this year!!!)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Try this link in case the original didn't work properly:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/01/23/days_before_execution_killer_controls_fate/


4 posted on 01/23/2005 4:56:43 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: Theresawithanh

I resent the link. Hopefully, it will work.


5 posted on 01/23/2005 4:57:41 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

The taxpayers have been paying for this scum for the last 20 years. He's wasted far too much space on this planet as it is.


6 posted on 01/23/2005 5:01:17 PM PST by mtbopfuyn
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
I resent the link.

I resent the link too. Stupid, arrogant link! Ptooi! Ptooi!

7 posted on 01/23/2005 5:05:56 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (The best reactive targets are cow flops and Dimmycrats...but I repeat myself.)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Thanks for fixing the link. What a story!

I hope they go through with the execution.


8 posted on 01/23/2005 5:08:06 PM PST by Theresawithanh (2005! My resolution: FReep even MORE this year!!!)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
I resent the link

If you resent it so much, why did you post it?

9 posted on 01/23/2005 5:10:00 PM PST by eclectic (Liberalism is a mental disorder)
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To: Slings and Arrows

How can you resent the link? I thought it was still missing!


10 posted on 01/23/2005 5:12:22 PM PST by pipecorp (I am, therefore, I think...so, what happens when I'm done thinking ?)
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To: eclectic

Re-sent it.


11 posted on 01/23/2005 5:24:31 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: pipecorp
How can you resent the link? I thought it was still missing!

Exactly! Where was it when I needed it? Do you know what it's like, watching all the other kids running home to their links, and me going home to a cold, linkless house? Come back, link! I still love you!

I'm not gonna cry. I'm not gonna cry...

12 posted on 01/23/2005 5:26:47 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (The best reactive targets are cow flops and Dimmycrats...but I repeat myself.)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Replaced non-working link with the one you supplied in #4. Thanks.


14 posted on 01/23/2005 5:30:33 PM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
"But there is still uncertainty about whether New England's first execution in 45 years will take place."

I say we all die of old age before he does.

15 posted on 01/23/2005 5:54:10 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Poster-child for the death penalty.


16 posted on 01/23/2005 6:56:47 PM PST by atruelady
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