COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - The Corrections Department announced that James Earl Reed was executed at 11:27pm Friday.
(sniffle, weep, sniffle, weep, sniffle) Happy endings always make me cry.
Posted on 06/21/2008 6:40:17 AM PDT by aomagrat
COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - The Corrections Department announced that James Earl Reed was executed at 11:27pm Friday.
The execution comes after the South Carolina 4th Circuit Court of Appeals granted the Corrections Department permission to proceed with the execution.
Just minutes before his previously scheduled 6pm execution, Reed was granted a stay of execution by US District Court Judge Henry Floyd.
According to the order from the US District Court, Attorney Diana Holt wrote that the execution violated Reed's right to have an attorney at trial, his right to be free of cruel and unusual punishment and his right to due process.
Reed was the first inmate executed by the electric chair since 2004.
Reed had been on death row since 1996, when he was convicted for murdering Joseph and Barbara Lafayette, his ex-girlfriend's parents.
Protestors lined up outside the Broad River Correctional Facility to let people know how they felt about the execution.
"I would feel guilty of participating in it if I didn't make my voice known that I don't want anyone killed in my name," Protestor Anna Shockley said. "I think killing is always wrong."
Three members of the media along with Marsha Aleem, the youngest daughter of the victims, made statements confirming Reed's execution.
The ruling says the government has 45 days to do so or Padilla would be eligible for release. The government vowed to appeal the ruling.
The order from U.S. District Judge Henry Floyd sided with defense attorneys who advanced that argument in a hearing last month in Spartanburg, South Carolina, the jurisdiction where Padilla has been detained for 2 1/2 years as a military prisoner."
I thought I have heard this judges name before...
I would like to see any convicted murderer executed in the same manner as her/she performed their crime against their victims. That would be real justice and yes it would be cruel, but considering the level of violence performed by the convict it can no longer be judged as unusual. Too bad it has taken so long to give him the justice he deserves.
Protestor Anna Shockley said. “I think killing is always wrong.”...........
.........and the same sort of people scream that abortion on demand is OK, say from any girl 10 and over, partial birth abortion, NO PROBLEM! After all, it is a matter of PRIVACY, not the actual of death of a person.
These people baffle me. Liberalism is truly a mental disorder.
Cal is planning a $400 mill construction of a new death row. We're overcrowded, duuuh.
For $10 mill per year they could hire a few judges, attorneys, and investigators and expedite the appeal process. But then we'd have to actually execute some murderers and we can't have that.
COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - The Corrections Department announced that James Earl Reed was executed at 11:27pm Friday.
(sniffle, weep, sniffle, weep, sniffle) Happy endings always make me cry.
I don't know about cruel, but it certainly would be biblical.
Many executed criminals get to breathe oxygen for years
if not decades while they go through challenges or are
on a waiting list behind many others (will Scott Peterson
ever get his date with destiny...?)
In Boston, conservative talk host Howie Carr will mention
when Texas executes someone and he plays a bit of the country tune “God Bless Texas”. (MA, of course, no DP)
I got excited when I saw this headline....I thought Harry Reid had been put down.
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(I mean many who are on death row...needless to say
an executed criminal who still breathes oxygen would be
a case of “something went wrong”...)
Anna... you should pray for such a quick and virtually, painless death. His victims, I'm sure, would have preferred it to the evil he meted out.
James Earl Reed... may you burn forever in hell...
There. Fixed it.
When I drive into Montpelier, someone has a sign on her lawn that says, "War is Not the Answer."
Every time I see it, I can't help thinking: "What was the question?"
Leni
It happens every time there is an execution. Party Time on Free Republic. I find it inappropriate - rejoicing in the death of a human being. It should be a time for sober reflection on such things as the "wages of sin" and especially repentance of ones own sins and perhaps a realization - "There but for the grace of God..."
Let me anticipate the usual knee jerk reaction...
No. I am not opposed to the death penalty. I do find Biblical justification for it. And I have no sympathy for the criminal. He had many, many years of life which he denied to his victims.
But,the state is, in effect, acting in the place of God Almighty in legally taking a man's life. With this nation daily spitting in His face (what's the body count up to, 40,000,000 unborn dead?), I wonder if the Biblical justification I find for capital punishment still applies?
Flame suit on. Have at it!
ping to #35
I take solice in my Bible in the following passages
1] Under the 10 commandments “Thou shall NOT commit murder” not kill. This was misread by those wimps who would want us to all hold hands and sing around the camp fire.
2]Under Exodus 21:22-25, Anyone who strikes a man & kills him shall surely be put to death.... If a man schemes & kills another man deliberately, take him away from my altar & put him to death......
This come from my Concordia study bible, so everyone can know my referance...
Corrections: The problem has now been corrected.
Who says that we are not being used as the LORD GOD’s tool here on earth. HE works through us for HIS ends and not ours.
“Killing is always wrong.” This sentiment is based on a bad translation in the KJV of the Bible. The Hebrew word “Retsach” is translated in the 10 Commandments as “Thou shalt not kill.” The correct translation is “You will not kill, as to commit murder.” Quite a difference in translation, don’t you think. So this whole movement that you can’t kill is based on mistranslation. There are instances that you are commanded to kill. For Instance, in war, and also to carry out justice.
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