Posted on 09/25/2007 9:07:15 PM PDT by SmithL
Huntsville, Texas (AP) -- The nation's busiest death penalty state executed another inmate Tuesday night, hours after the Supreme Court said it would review whether the lethal injection method most states use is cruel and unusual.
Michael Richard, 49, was put to death for the 1986 shooting of Marguerite Lucille Dixon, a 53-year-old nurse and mother of seven. Richard had been released from his second prison term eight weeks before Dixon was raped and killed inside her home.
Asked if he'd like to make a final statement, Richard said, "I'd like my family to take care of each other. I love you, Angel. Let's ride." He was pronounced dead at 8:23 p.m.
Another execution, the 27th in Texas this year, remained scheduled for Thursday, and officials said Tuesday's announcement by the Supreme Court would not affect the state's execution docket.
"We will go forward with our interpretation of the law," Gov. Rick Perry said.
After the Supreme Court's announcement, Richard's attorneys asked the justices to halt his execution in the meantime, but the court rejected that appeal.
Ten of the 37 states that use the three-drug cocktail under review by the Supreme Court have suspended its use after opponents alleged it was ineffective and cruel, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. But Texas is unlikely to halt lethal injections unless the Supreme Court issues a blanket stay.
"We are monitoring this, but until the court rules or gives direction, nothing changes from our perspective," said Allison Castle, a Perry spokeswoman.
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As Paul Harvey would say, Texas killed a killer.
I have no problem with dropping a garbage can filled with 300 lbs of bricks onto their heads from fifty feet. That should be relatively quick and painless.
Good riddance - next!
Very good news
These lunatics should test it on themselves.
Seriously, why do the courts even bother to waste taxpayers money entertaining these moronic leftist moonbats. Lethal injection is too humane for most if not all of these scum. These murderers should suffer to the same degree their victims did. They should be sitting in prison for 20 years waiting for it either, they need to pick up the pace and save taxpayers money, and make room for more criminals.
That’s right MR SFA TOOKIE STILL DEAD!!!!!! I hope you lurk on this site.
shouldn’t be
The murderers are lucky Texas doesn’t use an ice pick and a blow torch. That’s what they’d use if it were up to me.
Frankly.. I think they should execute them the same manner they killed their victims...Would put the words cruel and unusual in some persepective.
Dehydration and starvation are an approved method of court ordered executions, in Florida.
It takes somewhat longer, but since the desired results have been adjudicated as good enough for a severely mentally disabled woman, never convicted, or even accused of any crimes against humanity, it should logically follow that this method of death should also approved for convicted criminals sentenced to death.
It’s supposedly entirely humane and very painless.....
I will fix your tag line to conform to reality....
“Hunter-Thompson 2008 . It satisfies the senses on multidimensional levels”
NOT! 1% Hunter? Laughable....
“Thompson 2008 . It satisfies the senses on multidimensional levels”
There. Fixed!
You know, I always have these fantasies of catching Osama Bin Ladin, and sticking him on top of a tall building while it is set on fire.
The guy got 20 more years to his life after doing the crime. Somehow, I have a hard time believing he needed any additional time sucking oxygen.
As for lethal injection being “cruel and unusual”, I have no problems going back to the firing squad method. Very quick death.
You forgot to mention "euphoric". :)
With 596 men and 15 women condemned prisoners, as of Sept 19th, we're still trying to figure out if lethal injection is cruel and unusual or some non-sense.
Oops that’s 595 condemned men.
This scumbag’s last pronouncement should have been more accurate - instead of “Let’s ride,” it should have been “Now let’s ride to Hell.” Texas has apparently found a way around our pathetic criminal friendly system of injustice forced upon us by a bubble headed liberal judiciary, why can’t the other states? It also makes my head want to explode when I read about cases like this where it says the dirtbag had just gotten out of prison for the second time etc. If the govt. had done its job and kept this bastard in prison in the first place these 7 innocent children would still have a loving mother. Build more prisons! Execute more people!
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