High Court Steps In, Blocks Fla. Execution

FORBES ^ | 1-24-06 | Gina Holland

[pepperhead]

I wonder if anyone has ever claimed needlephobia?

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Clarence Hill won a last-minute Supreme Court stay Tuesday night about an hour after he was scheduled to be executed

Am I missing something here. A last minute reprieve an hour after he was to be executed.

[doug from upland]

Pensacola Police Chief John Mathis says whatever deterrent effect the death penalty may serve is long since gone in Hill's case. But he says that's not the point.

It's the right punishment for a man who ran from an attempted robbery of the Freedom Savings & Loan in downtown Pensacola on the afternoon of Oct. 19, 1982, then circled back to the scene where he shot and killed Taylor and wounded officer Larry Bailly, Mathis said.

Mathis was on the force then, in investigations.

"It's still been a lingering question all along, as to why? Only Mr. Hill can answer," Mathis said, adding that Hill's execution makes sense. "In very rare circumstances I think it is an appropriate penalty."

[doug from upland]

Maybe it was a mistake like calling the 2000 election in Florida while the panhandle still had an hour to vote (keeping thousands of Republicans from voting).

[Dustbunny]

Hill's lawyers argue that the three chemicals used in Florida's lethal injection method of execution cause pain, making his execution cruel and unusual punishment. He also contends that he is mentally retarded.

He obviously was not retarded enough to not know that shooting someone with a gun kills them.

[pepperhead]

"It's still been a lingering question all along, as to why? Only Mr. Hill can answer," Mathis said, adding that Hill's execution makes sense. "In very rare circumstances I think it is an appropriate penalty."

It too rare in my opinion. Cop killers shouldn't be the only ones getting executed.

[Dustbunny]

LOL,,, good one

[pepperhead]

It's

[doug from upland]

It was a botched bank job and the perps circled back to kill the officer and wounded another.

[oceanview]

April 2005 was the last execution, the only one in 2005.

[Dustbunny]

I hope they don't delay the execution much longer.

All murders should get the death penalty and appeals should run out after 5 years.

[oceanview]

so why didn't he block the one in April 2005?

[festus]

From the link .......


The executioner:
Is a private citizen who is paid $150 per execution. State law allows for his or her identity to remain anonymous.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Maybe it was a mistake like calling the 2000 election in Florida while the panhandle still had an hour to vote (keeping thousands of Republicans from voting).

Boy, do I remember that night. Channel 13, in Tampa, called the state for Gore at 5:30 in the evening, a full hour and a half before the polls closed in most of the state. That kind of reporting, in fact, kept voters in the Panhandle from turning out. My mother, who lives out west, was extremely upset about the early pronouncement by the media, that Gore had won. Thank God for us Florida voters, save the idiots in the southern counties who didn't know how to vote.

[doug from upland]

I was in Germany at the time (but I had voted absentee). I was watching CNN at the time and went to sleep sick to my stomach thinking Gore had won. I tossed and turned all night. It was a great trip. I had the opportunity to drive several of the DaimlerChrysler fuel cell vehicles on the test track at Stuttgart.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

To heck with the fuel cells, give me a Hemi!.....in my Caravan. LOL

[Ohioan from Florida]

Terri Schiavo, March 31, 2005

[Ohioan from Florida]

I hear that dying from dehydration and starvation is euphoric. Maybe he would prefer that method.

[SteveMcKing]

I hear that dying from dehydration and starvation is euphoric.

Cold, cold reference there... and exactly accurate in meaning. I do respect that.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

'The compassion that is proper to a headsman is a sharp axe.'