Calif. Governor Has No Mercy for Inmate - Clarence Ray Allen to die by injection Tuesday

ABC ^ | Jan 13, 2006 | AP

[Mad_as_heck]

Calif. Governor Has No Mercy for Inmate

I resent the way the press makes it seem that executing Mr Allen is Schwarzenegger's doing. He isn't responsible for a jury's decision: The People of California are.

A Governor granting clemency to a convicted murderer is an extraoridary intervention in our justice system that should be reserved as a last and seldom used option. The jury has spoken. The appropriate appeals are denied. Time to let justice take its course.

[Sofa King]

If this guy hadn't murdered other people they'd be calling this euthanasia and liberals would be all for it.

[claudiustg]

---And the recidivism rate for executed felons is zero.---

And after execution Clarence will no longer be old and feeble, he'll be dead like his victims, and like we'll all be one day. In the mean time we'll no longer have to watch his sorry ass.

[teenyelliott]

Someone on FR actually told me not too long ago that the answer to this problem was to spend MORE money, keep these guys in prison for life, and monitor their every movement and word, rather than executing them.

Sounds feasible, doesn't it?

[teenyelliott]

After all, Arnold's Uncle-in-Law Teddy is a children's book author who committed murder, but you don't hear Arnold condemning him, do you?

Beautiful!!!

[goresalooza]

Let him go and chant with dead old tookie. Arnold did the right thing, twice. YAY!

[confederate_infidel]

What the hell is going on in the State of FRUITS, NUTS and FLAKES?


California: America's Cereal Bowel

[Former Military Chick]

Thank you.

You are right, it is very possible that we would have 3 folks alive had other punishments been handed down.

Now, he must face his punishment. Than it is time for the shooter.

[Texas Mom]

California: America's Cereal Bowel

LOL! A big bowl of Granola.

[goldstategop]

He's still a murderer. Allen should have been executed 20 years ago. Its time for justice to be done - better late than never.

(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.")

[Riptides]

I respectfully disagree with you. Call me insensitive but Death Row murderers should be resuscitated so that they can receive the punishment that they deserve.
It is ironic and fitting that he is scheduled to be executed on the eve of his birthday. Bye bye, you degenerate murderer.

[Riptides]

I respectfully disagree with you. Call me insensitive but Death Row murderers should be resuscitated so that they can receive the punishment that they deserve.
It is ironic and fitting that he is scheduled to be executed on the eve of his birthday. Bye bye, you degenerate murderer.

[goldstategop]

He was 52 years old in 1982. If the death penalty process worked, he could have executed in 1985. That's reasonable. But there's something horribly wrong when it takes a quarter century to execute murderers like Clarence Ray Allen.

(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.")