As opposed to that California execution ping list which will get you pinged every 25 or 30 years!
Sure, rub it in.
;-)
Posted on 07/11/2006 4:33:57 PM PDT by COEXERJ145
(7/11/06 - HUNTSVILLE, TX) - Condemned murderer Derrick Sean O'Brien has been executed for the torture, rape and strangling of two teenage girls.
O'Brien is one of six gang members convicted in the 1993 slayings of 14-year-old Jennifer Ertman and 16-year-old Elizabeth Pena in Houston.
The US Supreme Court had been asked to block tonight's execution. O'Brien's defense argued there's no legal procedure for condemned Texas prisoners to challenge whether the drugs used in lethal injections could cause unconstitutional pain.
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Yes. Thank goodness that in deference to the wisdom and mercy of gentle European law, the two 17-year-olds involved in this vicious murder will not pay the full price.
[I comment here in a spirit of spitting sarcasm.]
I'm hardly shocked
As opposed to that California execution ping list which will get you pinged every 25 or 30 years!
Sure, rub it in.
;-)
Justice has been done for one of the defendants after over a decade. It awaits the other murderers.
An activist "RIGHT!" created out of thin air.
Another reason to return to a strict originalist understanding of the BOR.
When the bill of rights was written hanging and firing squads were normal means of execution.
I am sure both are much more painful than a lethal injection that begins with a pain killer and sedative.
I am also sure that when our founders forbade "cruel and unusual punishment" they meant things like "Draw and Quarter", Evisceration, Boiling in oil, etc.
You know, those creative punishments that were still so popular in kingdoms of Europe.
I get so upset with these anti-death penalty types that I can hardly stand it. It is not just that I deeply disagree with them, but that they are lying bastards who are utterly undemocratic (unwilling to accept society's verdict) who wage unending, continuous warfare raising one dishonest issue after another.
Oh, the prosecution was racist! No, the defense council was incompetent. No, they are too young to be executed. No, they are too stupid to be executed. No, the lethal injection is too painful. No (latest and most utterly absurd), executions can not be carried out because it is a medical procedure and therefore must be done by medical personnel. BUT, it is illiegal for medical personnel to deliberately harm. So, no executions. This INSANE argument is actually impeding executions in my state (NC) and elsewhere. I just HATE these bastards.
Well, that's exactly right. Anything they accepted at the time they wrote the document was not something they were attempting to prevent.
I don't think they'd have approved of stoning or tossing someone into the lion cage at a zoo. But this argument that an injection (something designed to replace the more brutal electrocution) is unconstitutional is fairly laughable.
Thank you. Let me think about it. Because of other demands, I’ve had to cut way back on ping lists recently.
Good idea, if I was the jiggin' type.
Anyway, in light of the perps heritage, I would not use that word, lest Jesse jackson accuse me of some heinous racial crime ;)
The President did that because of a treaty that the United States has been a part of for decades. He didn't just wake up one day and decide to invoke some unknown international law.
I doubt the POTUS wakes up any morning and decides anything on a whim b/c he feels like it. My reaction is more to the idea that this guy was probably here illegally yet is reaping the benefits of our legal system. Don't try doing what he did if you are in Mexico, though. They'll stand you in front of a firing squad the moment the gavel comes down on you.
Too bad he can't be killed twice.
Pretty soon it won't be safe to kill anyone in Texas or . . . no wait, isn't that the idea?
Foshizzle my lethal injectizzle.
Yes! It was about time!!!
My wife and I got so freaked out by that crime we never let my niece leave the house alone again until we moved from that area almost 6 years later.
The way the girls were killed was very brutal. These cockroaches wore steel toed boots and kicked and stomped the girls to death.
They had absolutely no remorse for what they did. Lethal injection is far too good for any of them.
Jennifer Pena's father sat at the trial and made certain that they saw him there every day. I know the Erdman family was there too.
The world is a better place with these guys gone.
Justice delayed is justice denied.
Ron White always comes to mind whenever Texas puts another one down:
"In Texas we have the death penalty and we USE it!"
"Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane."
Honestly ... I didn't know you were from California when I posted to you. Now I feel badly ...
Thanks for not chewing my head off! ;-)
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