Posted on 01/16/2006 4:02:59 PM PST by SmithL
San Francisco -- The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from a 76-year-old convicted killer who argued that he was too old and feeble to be executed.
The ruling cleared the way for Clarence Ray Allen — legally blind, nearly deaf and in a wheelchair — to be executed by injection early Tuesday for a triple murder he ordered from behind bars to silence witnesses to another killing.
Allen, whose birthday was Monday, stood to become the oldest person executed in California — and the second-oldest put to death nationally — since the Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976.
Allen raised two claims never before endorsed by the high court: that executing a frail old man would violate the U.S. Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment, and that the 23 years he spent on death row were unconstitutionally cruel as well.
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time is running ou
I know how to fix this!
I wonder if he asked his victim if there were any factors that should mitigate against the victim's execution. For some reason, I doubt it.
SCOTUS rules your gonna die! Oh and Happy Birthday!
This guy has been on death row for 23 years.....he's had plenty of time to get things in order, like after the first 30 days. I can't believe what this country goes through everytime these guys get convicted and they live a third of their life beyond their victims, whose life they gladly took. With this piece of s%*$, he's probably cost the taxpayers well over a million bucks by having him loaf along all this time. Say your prayers, loser, it's time to meet your maker....the sooner the better.
Donchajust LOVE the double-edged sword these appellate lawyers are trying out now?
First they appeal and appeal and appeal every minute detail of the case, denying justice with b.s. procedural arguments that should be tossed like their bar cards.
NOW they claim their client's too old to execute.
It's like the kid who kills his parents and begs the mercy of the court because he's an orphan.
There....fixed the headling.
"76 years old,legally blind, nearly deaf and in a wheelchair"
Sounds to me like they're doing him a favor!
I guess we will find out tonight if the USSC was right.
"Elderly man" = convicted 4 time killer.
I think George Felos should have been called to handle this guy's case.
one and the same.
Is the original lawyer handling this, or is he dead?
And if the lawyer's dead ... waddatheydo ???Pass a freakin' baton and hand off to the next freakin' lawyer?
Yeah, legally blind, so we can't wave bye-bye and nearly deaf so we better YELL REAL LOUD.
HA!
Ping
Geez, if he's in that bad of shape, you'd think the left would be pushing "euthanasia" to put him out of his misery.
Probably either handled by a death-sentence advocacy group, or by a state lawyer handling his appeals, or maybe even both. Lots of states have an appointed advocate for those folks sentenced to die. I think the original reason was to ensure justice was done, but now I think it's like insurance for the state because it overcomes the issue of due process in the later stage of appeals (when the convict is trying anything to get away from Ol' Sparky).
LOL, this is like their conflict when the guy in...Maine, I think...pushed a bill that would deny parents the right to abort gay babies on the basis of their sexual orientation.
Rock...liberals...hard place.
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