Conn. Execution Highlights 'Syndrome' [new pro-criminal syndrome alert!]

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS via NY Times ^ | February 1, 2005 | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

[68skylark]

I don't want to sound insensitive to the plight of Mr. Ross, and all the other murdering scum on death row. But I can think of an easy, obvious and foolproof cure for any of them who feel they are suffering from this syndrome.

[camle]

remember the film "The big carnaval"?

[steve in DC]

I cannot understand who would intervent to stay the execution!

I mean, Mr. Ross has requested that the execution not be stayed. There is nothing in place that would cause his case to be appealed or re-opened. Neither the families of the eictims, nor the perpetrator are seeking to avoid the death penalty....

Calling Dr. Kevorkian!

[68skylark]

I mean, Mr. Ross has requested that the execution not be stayed. There is nothing in place that would cause his case to be appealed or re-opened. Neither the families of the eictims, nor the perpetrator are seeking to avoid the death penalty....

There you go again -- trying to apply common sense. That doesn't work when lib judges and lib activists get involved.

[68skylark]

No, I didn't see that one. Should I have seen that one?

[Tabi Katz]

Oh, but it's a terrible shame that someone who brutally cut down 8 innocent people should want to take his own life now, isn't it? I say we shouldn't punish murderers at all - it may sap their will to live.

[MarineBrat]

Very nearly like a Catch-22 situation, but really only half of a Catch-22. We've sentenced you to death, but if you want to die then you're not competent to be put to death.

I say "nearly" a Catch-22 because once the liberals declare him not fit to die they won't change their minds if the murderer decides again that he wants to live.

So can I coin a new phrase for the lexicon? A "Catch-11", defined as one half of a Catch-22.

[glock rocks]

He described the isolation of sitting in his cell 23 hours a day for years amid the endless slamming of metal and dark thoughts of his own horrific crimes and his impending execution.

Excellent.

[68skylark]

If lawyers can't get a case like this settled in a certain amount of time (I'd give them a couple of years), then maybe they should get locked up until the case is settled. It's nuts to have an appeals process that drags on for 20 years or more -- with lawyers billing the public at hourly rates. Citizens should not stand for it.

On the other hand, there are innocent people on death row also. (For example, these hapless kids: www.wm3.org.) That's a different problem.

[Honestfreedom]

Timothy McVeigh largely decided to give up his appeals for similar reasons. It sounds perfectly rational to me. In fact Ross sounds more rational than most liberals and many judges.

[68skylark]

Excellent

Yeah, I'm glad a murderer has to live in these conditions -- what's not to like? It's better than the conditions of his victims.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Do the humane thing send this PoS off.

[packrat35]

They are not innocent kids. You obviously know nothing about these 3 "innocent" kids.

[TheOtherOne]

``The desolate conditions of death row lend themselves to both mental illness and a sense of hopelessness and despair.''

Aww, and a death sentence is supposed to be fun and games leading to a happy existence.

[Unicorn]

Bring back public hangings and put it on TV

[68skylark]

You obviously know nothing about these 3 "innocent" kids.

Well the evidence I've seen says they're probably innocent. If you have a different perspective I can understand that, I guess, and I'm sure I won't change your mind.

[hillary's_fat_a**]

"Death Row Syndrome" my effin ass!!

This execution was stopped by KLINTOON-APPOINTED His Dis-honorable Judge Chatigny!! Anybody surprised??

Ultra-liberal Chatigny once ruled that publicly naming sex offenders was unconstitutional. Guess what? THAT WAS OVERTURNED BY THE US SUPREME COURT!

The US Supreme Court TWICE vacated stays to allow the execution of Michael Ross to be carried out. Guess what? Chatigny then threatened to pull the law license of the lawyer if other evidence were to surface after the execution. HE THUS INTIMIDATED AND BULLIED THE LAWYER TO POSTPONE THE EXECUTION!

Michael Ross RAPED AND MURDERED 8 FEMALES - 2 WERE 14 YEARS OLD! Why is the ULTRA-LIBERAL CHATIGNY so concerned with this admitted serial rapist and killer?

I DON'T CARE IF HE IS SANE OR INSANE - I DON'T CARE. BOTTOM LINE IS HE KILLED 8 FEMALES AND JUSTICE IS LONG OVERDUE!

I long to live in a RED STATE ...........

[TheDon]

So, it is "cruel and unusual punishment" to take decades, even years, to execute convicted murderers? It is an easy problem to solve. Just bypass death row altogether. Take convicted murderers, to be executed, straight from the courtroom to the execution chamber, and execute them. It is so much more humane.

[Tabi Katz]

Actually, the only intelligent argument I've heard against the death penalty is that it's over too quickly, and some prisoners would rather die than rot in jail. Let them suffer for awhile before putting them out of society's misery. Of course, that argument only works if jail is in fact seen as a punishment, not a low-level resort with cable TV and other modern luxuries.

[68skylark]

I know what you mean. In the final analysis, I don't think there's any good solution to the problem -- after a horrible murder gets committed, there's really no punishment we can inflict that's going to make anything better. Both life in prison and the death penalty have their pros and cons.

I'm a death penalty supporter, but it's a very imperfect solution. (Concealed carry is one good, partial solution -- it's a good idea if good people can defend themselves from predators, and maybe deter a few crimes in the process.)