It's not grim, it's cause for celebration.
But the number should be at least 100 times higher.
What is the total number of victims for that 1000?
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.
I suspect China executes more than 1000 every year.
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.
"grim milestone"
Well, it's AFP. 'nuff said
Euroliberals = Supporters of the criminals
1000...far fewer than it should be, but at least Texas is trying.
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.
Or maybe more criminals are detered. (Lberals will never admit that armed citizens and stiff penalties reduce crime.)
There, now it's OK.
(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.")
I guess writing children's books brings the 4 dead people he was convicted of killing (and the countless others he and his gang were NOT convicted of) back to life. And the families are made whole and the years of suffering by those families are erased.
Can we work it out so TOOKIE gets to be Mr. 1000. PLEASE!!!!!! and then Make Mumia 1001!
OOOpps
Tookie WILLIAMS, not Wilson.
Once againg P.J. O'Rourke's 'alternate inaugural address' springs to mind, the one in which he proposed President Bush not try to 'bring the country together' because 'the country is divided by jerks'.
Late in it he would have had the President say, "Jerks are in favor of abortion, but opposed to capital punishment. Now it's easy to imagine someone so full of the milk of human kindness as to oppose both. It's easy to imagine someone so callous and utilitarian as to support both. But it takes a real jerk to be opposed to killing a serial murder, and favor killing a perfect innocent."
TOOKIE! TOOKIE! TOOKIE! TOOKIE! TOOKIE! TOOKIE! TOOKIE!