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Grim milestone looms for US death penalty: 1000th execution
AFP via Yahoo ^ | November 30 2005

Posted on 11/30/2005 4:04:31 AM PST by cloud8

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We'd have reached 1000 long ago if states like Massachusetts would enact the death penalty.
1 posted on 11/30/2005 4:04:32 AM PST by cloud8
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It's not grim, it's cause for celebration.

But the number should be at least 100 times higher.


2 posted on 11/30/2005 4:08:03 AM PST by tomahawk
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What is the total number of victims for that 1000?


3 posted on 11/30/2005 4:08:33 AM PST by atomicpossum (Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
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"Hicks was sentenced to death over the 1985 murder of his mother-in-law and five-year-old step-daughter."

This piece of crap got 20 years to watch tv, visit with his prison bitc#, exercise, and whine about how unfair life is. The five year old will be forever 5 years old. Did the poor innocent criminal, true to form, apologize as most of them do? Oh for the days of the lightening bolt to hell execution method.

4 posted on 11/30/2005 4:08:57 AM PST by RushLake (Baghdad minus saddam hussein = Detroit)
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To: cloud8

I suspect China executes more than 1000 every year.


5 posted on 11/30/2005 4:09:04 AM PST by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: tomahawk

It's not grim, it's cause for celebration

Amen


6 posted on 11/30/2005 4:12:39 AM PST by garylmoore (Homosexuality: Obviously unnatural, so obviously wrong.)
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To: cloud8

The number seems low, but the count started back in 1976. Now that we have DNA evidence --- and the greater certainty of guilt that such evidence brings with it --- there's no reason that the rate of executions can't increase. Hopefully, we'll reach our next 1000 in a much shorter time.


7 posted on 11/30/2005 4:14:37 AM PST by samtheman
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"grim milestone"

Well, it's AFP. 'nuff said


8 posted on 11/30/2005 4:20:06 AM PST by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: cloud8

Euroliberals = Supporters of the criminals


9 posted on 11/30/2005 4:24:57 AM PST by Wiz
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The convicted killer who was supposed to be number 1000, was given clemecy yesterday.
10 posted on 11/30/2005 4:25:08 AM PST by excalibur1701
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1000...far fewer than it should be, but at least Texas is trying.


11 posted on 11/30/2005 4:26:28 AM PST by kittymyrib
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Awwwww geeeeez, another "grim milestone"?!
12 posted on 11/30/2005 4:38:27 AM PST by CaptRon (Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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Maybe Texas can push us over the top!


13 posted on 11/30/2005 4:38:55 AM PST by texianyankee
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To: tomahawk

Exactly. Its not so grim if one keeps in mind these guys (gals) are the most vile of rapists and murderers. Of course, the people who write these articles live in the good neighborhoods.


14 posted on 11/30/2005 4:38:57 AM PST by rbg81
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Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment 29 years ago.

WRONG! The SCOTUS never banned it so it didn't have to reinstate it. Even Furman didn't strike down all statues.

FURMAN V. GEORGIA

408 U.S. 238 (1972)

PER CURIAM.

Petitioner in No. 69-5003 was convicted of murder in Georgia and was sentenced to death pursuant to Ga. Code Ann. 26-1005 (Supp. 1971) (effective prior to July 1, 1969). 225 Ga. 253, 167 S. E. 2d 628 (1969). Petitioner in No. 69-5030 was convicted of rape in Georgia and was sentenced to death pursuant to Ga. Code Ann. 26-1302 (Supp. 1971) (effective prior to July 1, 1969). 225 Ga. 790, 171 S. E. 2d 501 (1969). Petitioner in No. 69-5031 was convicted of rape in Texas and was sentenced to death pursuant to Tex. Penal Code, Art. 1189 (1961). 447 S. W. 2d 932 (Ct. Crim. App. 1969). Certiorari was granted limited to the following question: "Does the imposition and carrying out of the death penalty in [these cases] constitute cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments?" 403 U.S. 952 (1971). The Court holds that the imposition and carrying out of the death penalty in these (emphasis mine - Tarkin) cases constitute cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. The judgment in each case is therefore reversed insofar as it leaves undisturbed the death sentence imposed, and the cases are remanded for further proceedings.

So ordered.

(...) MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BURGER, with whom MR. JUSTICE BLACKMUN, MR. JUSTICE POWELL, and MR. JUSTICE REHNQUIST join, dissenting.

At the outset it is important to note that only two members of the Court, MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN and MR. JUSTICE MARSHALL, have concluded that the Eighth Amendment prohibits capital punishment for all crimes and under all circumstances.(...)

MR. JUSTICE POWELL, with whom THE CHIEF JUSTICE, MR. JUSTICE BLACKMUN, and MR. JUSTICE REHNQUIST join, dissenting.

(...) [ Footnote 1 ] (...)MR. JUSTICE STEWART, in [408 U.S. 238, 416] addition to reserving judgment on at least four presently existing statutes (ante, at 307), indicates that statutes making capital punishment mandatory for any category of crime, or providing some other means of assuring against "wanton" and "freakish" application (ante, at 310), would present a difficult question that he does not reach today. MR. JUSTICE WHITE, for somewhat different reasons appears to come to the conclusion that a mandatory system of punishment might prove acceptable. Ante, p. 310.

[ Footnote 2 ] While statutes in 40 States permit capital punishment for a variety of crimes, the constitutionality of a very few mandatory statutes remains undecided. See concurring opinions by MR. JUSTICE STEWART and MR. JUSTICE WHITE. Since Rhode Island's only capital statute - murder by a life term prisoner - is mandatory, no law in that State is struck down by virtue of the Court's decision today.

GREGG V. GEORGIA

428 U.S. 153, 168 (1972) (excerpt from the plurality opinion of STEWART, POWELL and STEVENS, JJ.)

But until Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972), the Court never confronted squarely the fundamental claim that the punishment of death always, regardless of the enormity of the offense or the procedure followed in imposing the sentence, is cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Constitution. Although this issue was presented and addressed in Furman, it was not resolved by the Court. (emphasis mine) Four Justices would have held that capital punishment is not unconstitutional per se; two Justices would have reached the opposite conclusion; and three Justices, while agreeing that the statutes then before the Court were invalid as applied, left open the question whether such punishment may ever be imposed. We now hold that the punishment of death does not invariably violate the Constitution.

15 posted on 11/30/2005 4:44:54 AM PST by Tarkin (Janice Rogers Brown to the SCOTUS)
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...although capital punishment is declining with fewer juries choosing death sentences.

Or maybe more criminals are detered. (Lberals will never admit that armed citizens and stiff penalties reduce crime.)

16 posted on 11/30/2005 4:52:28 AM PST by CPOSharky (Taxation WITH representation kinda sucks too.)
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The United States will likely reach this week the grim milestone of 1,000 35,000,000 executions of convicts babies since 1976 1973.

There, now it's OK.

17 posted on 11/30/2005 4:54:41 AM PST by Tarkin (Janice Rogers Brown to the SCOTUS)
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Well the number should be a lot higher if you consider the fact, that the People's Republic of California had 648 people on death row, as of July 1st, 2005 (and only 11 executions post-Furman). OTOH Virginia currently has only 23 inmates on death row (with almost 100 executions), good for Virginia :-).


18 posted on 11/30/2005 4:58:06 AM PST by Tarkin (Janice Rogers Brown to the SCOTUS)
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"35,000,000 executions of convicts babies"

That headline should horrify everyone. Thanks for the focus on the innocent and not the convicted felons.


19 posted on 11/30/2005 4:59:34 AM PST by YouPosting2Me
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"Grim" only to the MSM. For the rest of us the problem is the backlog of Death Row convicts NOT being executed. We'd have fewer murders if murderers were executed as rapidly as circumstances warranted.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

20 posted on 11/30/2005 5:03:03 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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