Posted on 12/11/2005 7:32:00 PM PST by WKB
So Nixon wasn't pardoned, ehhh? /sorry, bad joke ;)
He reached average life expectency for a male in the United States already.
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Statement of Governor Haley Barbour Arnold Schwarzenegger on Clemency Request of John B. Nixon, Sr Stanley "Tookie" Williams:
On Saturday, I made the decision to deny the request for clemency made by and on behalf of John B. Nixon, Sr. Stanley "Tookie" Williams, who was convicted in 1986.1981 in Rankin County Circuit Court Los Angeles County Circuit Court of a heinous murder four heinous murders. I made this decision after a careful review of the records provided on his behalf.
I will not presume to substitute my judgment for the judgment of the Rankin County Circuit Court Los Angeles County Circuit Court and the jury, which heard the evidence in the case, returned a guilty verdict and set the punishment; nor will I presume to substitute my judgment for the decisions of the Mississippi California Supreme Court, the United States District Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Ninth Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Those courts have reviewed the legal issues and determined that this defendant's legal rights were protected at every stage. His various appeals over all these years were repeatedly heard and consistently denied.
As governor I take the obligation of reviewing a request for clemency very seriously. And, upon review, I find nothing to convince me that clemency is justified in this case.
The real tragedy is that justice in this case has been delayed for more than 20 25 years. A delay of this length greatly reduces the deterrent effect of the death penalty.
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So there you go Arnold. You're all set.
Please see post #23.
Just watched the channel 12 local news and praise is due our governor!
Arnold should take heed and act like a governor and not a girlie man!
Thank you Governor Barbour!!!
LLS
I wonder if Gov Arnold will follow his lead.
Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty.....My state's putting in an Express Lane."
Ron White, "They Call Me Tater Salad"
I was starting to think you had killed another
thread but LLS saved the day and the thread.
Anthony Carr, 40. Sentenced for the Feb. 2, 1990, murders of four members of the Carl Parker family. They were tortured and burned. On death row 15 years.
Robert T. Simon Jr., 42. Sentenced for the Feb. 2, 1990, murders of four members of the Carl Parker family. On death row 15 years.
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I was 8 years old when this happened. The parkers lived a few miles from my house and were friends with my family. The detai.ls of their crime were horrific. These 'men' are not human. They should have been hung a long time ago. Instead Quitman county has had to institute special tax levies just to pay for their defense. This is not justice for them to still be alive 15 years later.
Happy to say that he did!
BTW Merry Christmas!
LLS
I was at MS State at the time and don't remember this. What was there motive? Refresh my memory...Quitman county is where? 15 years is far too long!
Quitman County is in the Delta, in the NW corner of MS. I couldn't find any archived news reports except for this article off of law.com
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Quitman County, Miss., is the kind of quiet rural community that recalls a bygone era in American life. Thomas "Butch" Scipper, the county administrator, likes to think of it as a real-life Mayberry, a place where the screen doors stay unlocked at night. "My keys are outside in my truck ignition right now," Scipper told me one day from his office.
So it came as a particularly horrible shock when, on Feb. 3, 1990, residents awoke to news of a quadruple homicide just outside the small town of Walnut in the southwestern corner of the county, about 70 miles south of Memphis. Carl and Bobbie Jo Parker and their two young children had been returning home from a Bible study class when they walked in on a pair of burglars. According to police investigators, the family was bound, shot and left to die in their burning home.
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I never heard all of the details (I was 8 years old at the time) but they were apparantly gruesome beyond comprehension. The few bits I heard was that they severed Carl Parkers finger to get his wedding ring while he still alive, and forced him to watch them sodomize his young daughter while he was bound. He apparantly almost severed his hands struggling against the electical cord they tied him up with.
You know, that does sound familiar. I think I have some memory of that. That is beyond understanding. To think that they would even ask for clemency is beyond me. Thanks for the article.
I like Haley and think he has been really good for MS. I love MS and am so proud of my roots...that said....do you think he could really run in 08 and get elected just due to his accent alone? I have the same one mind you! I just wonder what the preception nationally would be? Heck, the elected Clinton who didn't have quite the accent but had alot less I mean alot less going for him than Haley! What are your thoughts?
Haley's homespun charm would do fine. People from the South have held national office many times. Check the current occupant of the White House.
But beyond mere accent, Haley is a genuine character, he's extremely shrewd and well-connected. He ran the RNC when the GOP took back the House. He is a nuts and bolts party guy who understand the machinery of national and local politics, and his rolodex is a mile long. Everyone in the GOP owes him a favor in come capacity.
Barbour handled Katrina in Giuliani-esque fashion, in sharp contrast to his neighbors in Louisiana, and was hit harder in most areas.
But any man who unwinds at the end of the day with a Maker's Mark on ice is my kind of guy.
He's been circumspect himself because it would be tasteless for him to speculate when he is up to his britches in gulf water.
So there's nothing official, but there doesn't necessarily need to be. Haley is smart enough to keep his powder dry and his ears open.
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