Elderly Man's Plea for Clemency Rejected [SCOTUS rejects Allen]

AP ^ | 1/16/6 | DAVID KRAVETS

[SmithL]

tookie-tockie

time is running ou

[Ben Mugged]

23 years he spent on death row were unconstitutionally cruel as well

I know how to fix this!

[LibertarianInExile]

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.

[Bommer]

Allen, whose birthday was Monday

SCOTUS rules your gonna die! Oh and Happy Birthday!

[john drake]

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.

[LibertarianInExile]

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.

[goodnesswins]

Elderly Man's MURDERER'S Plea for Clemency Rejected

There....fixed the headling.

[gc4nra]

"76 years old,legally blind, nearly deaf and in a wheelchair"



Sounds to me like they're doing him a favor!

[TheDon]

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.

I guess we will find out tonight if the USSC was right.

[Brilliant]

"Elderly man" = convicted 4 time killer.

[Joe 6-pack]

"76 years old,legally blind, nearly deaf and in a wheelchair"

I think George Felos should have been called to handle this guy's case.

[mewzilla]

Is this elderly man the same guy who killed one person, then ordered the murders of three others from behind bars?

[gc4nra]

one and the same.

[knarf]

It just occured to me ...

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?

[Emmett McCarthy]

Yeah, legally blind, so we can't wave bye-bye and nearly deaf so we better YELL REAL LOUD.

[WalterSkinner]

An LA radio station reported that his lawyer contended that he was "too old and sick to be executed".

HA!

[No Longer Free State]

Ping

[freeangel]

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.

[LibertarianInExile]

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).

[LibertarianInExile]

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.