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Clemency unlikely for pair facing execution, experts say
Mercury News ^
| 12/14/05
| Brandon Bailey and Dan Reed
Posted on 12/14/2005 11:56:13 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
With the failure of a high-profile clemency bid for Stanley Tookie Williams, legal observers say a reprieve seems even less likely for two more death row inmates who are facing execution in coming months -- and the pace of capital punishment could increase in California over the next two years.
Hours after Williams was put to death on Tuesday, death penalty opponents vowed to renew their efforts against the execution of 75-year-old Clarence Ray Allen of Fresno, scheduled for Jan. 17, by arguing that no civilized society should kill a prisoner who is elderly, partially blind and confined to a wheelchair.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clarenceallen; clarencerayallen; deathrow; execution; murder; stanleywilliams
So the leftist libs are arguing that society shouldn't kill the infirm? Weren't the very same people arguing the exact opposite position with regard to Terri Schiavo? In Terri's case, they were falling all over themselves to pull the plug on the poor woman. Liberalism is intellectually and morally bankrupt. As Savage says, it truly is a mental disorder.
To: ProtectOurFreedom
....no civilized society should kill a prisoner who is elderly, partially blind and confined to a wheelchair. If this were a civilized society, we wouldn't need to...........
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posted on
12/14/2005 11:59:02 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Funny, John B. Dixon Jr. is scheduled to be executed today in MS. He is 77 years old and, only killed one person and admits he did it. Why isn't he getting the "Tookie" treatment?
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posted on
12/14/2005 12:10:55 PM PST
by
L98Fiero
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Make taht John B. Dixon Sr. Jr. was convicted as an accessory.
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posted on
12/14/2005 12:11:51 PM PST
by
L98Fiero
To: ProtectOurFreedom
no civilized society should kill a prisoner who is elderly, partially blind and confined to a wheelchair. You forgot the most important part: "elderly, partially blind, confined to a wheelchair, and duly convicted by a jury of his peers, in accordance with due process, and sentenced to death for murder."
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posted on
12/14/2005 12:15:01 PM PST
by
IronJack
To: Red Badger
If this were a civilized society, we wouldn't need to...........AMEN
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posted on
12/14/2005 12:28:01 PM PST
by
Ouderkirk
(Funny how death and destruction seems to happen wherever Muslims gather...)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Allen was serving a life sentence for murder at Folsom State Prison in the 1970s, when he arranged for another man to kill three people who had testified against Allen in his original trial. An appellate judge later wrote that such crimes were exactly what the death penalty is designed for.The lawyers ran out the clock for 3 decades, and the lawyers now claim that it's cruel to execute this POS.
Enough delay.
To: ProtectOurFreedom
No capital punishment!
It's more humane to lock someone in prison for 80+ years.
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posted on
12/14/2005 12:44:37 PM PST
by
Tzimisce
To: L98Fiero
Why isn't he getting the "Tookie" treatment? Because he's not black?
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posted on
12/14/2005 1:03:07 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Islam Factoid:After forcing young girls to watch his men execute their fathers, Muhammad raped them.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Clarence Ray should have Dr. Kevorkian as a cellmate.
To: Red Badger; ProtectOurFreedom
Article Title: Clemency unlikely for pair facing execution, experts say
Good. :-)
Thanks Red! :-)
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posted on
12/14/2005 1:36:54 PM PST
by
Tunehead54
(Nothing funny here ;-)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
"....no civilized society should kill a prisoner who is elderly, partially blind and confined to a wheelchair."
If the idiot wanted to die when he was young and healthy, he shouldn't have filed all those appeals.
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posted on
12/14/2005 1:43:14 PM PST
by
Busywhiskers
("...moral principle, the sine qua non of an orderly society." --Judge Edith H. Jones)
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