Michael Taylor has already spent the last 17 years living on taxpayer expense. That's two years longer than the girl he kidnapped, raped and killed had her entire life.
"Michael Taylor has already spent the last 17 years living on taxpayer expense. That's two years longer than the girl he kidnapped, raped and killed had her entire life."
Fine.
In which case it is not going to make a material difference if he lives a few months longer while constitutional questions about the means of execution are resolved and, ultimately, when his case comes before the Supreme Court again, for the Supreme Court justices to satisfy themselves that he is actually guilty, since they are the ones who will ultimately send him to his death.
He'll get his in the end. The people who judge him are, apparently, averse to killing people and don't want to make a mistake, don't want to kill unless it's necessary.
Seems like a very Catholic way to look at things.
I approve.
"Hangin' Judge" Roy Bean should have been hanged himself for several counts of judicial murder. Before you give the order to kill someone, you make damned sure YOURSELF, since it's your order what's going to throw the switch.