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.
Never give your son the middle name “Earl”.
Or “Wayne”.
They still fry’em in SC? Cool.
“Killing is always wrong.”
From the “High Ground” as usual.....These are the same people who will let Terrorists attack us and then blame us for the attack.
“War is always wrong.”
Wonder what Senator Harry Reid’s middle name is?
Wonder what Senator Harry Reid’s middle name is?
Ain’t that the truth. Heh, heh.
Maybe she shoulda told this to "ol' Earl" before he killed those folks.
These idiots find it shocking that there are consequenses for murder. Fortunately, not as SHOCKING as "Earl" did.
James Earl Ray. James Earl Carter. Now James Earl Reed. James Earl never had a chance, did he?
Doncha know he was "retarded"?...poor poor African-American victim of the white judicial system. He just didn't realize that putting a bullet in between the eyes of somebody is wrong.... cause it's whitey's fault.
yawn
We should let the jihadist take over for a month, clear out our death row's then thank them and send them on their way.
We just refer to him as “Dumbass” around here.
You mean Harry Wayne Earl Bobbit Rodham Reid from Nevada?
http://www.ccadp.org/jamesearlreed.htm
I was wondering what the significance of so many men in the south being named “James Earl” is ... do you know ?
Betcha she has no problem with abortion, however.
I thought the SCOTUS settled the "cruel and unusual" question just recently by approving the method in which a particular state (Kentucky,I think) executed prisoners.Or was this dame arguing that the *chair* is cruel and unusual? In SC does a prisoner have a choice of methods and,if so,is lethal injection one of the options?
Anybody wanna bet that “protestor” Anna Shockley is just fine with partial birth abortion? It must be wonderful to be a leftist and never have to worry about facts, truth, common sense or reality.
Well, things are speeding up - only 12 years for justice to work. Usually it is 20 years to the guying dying of old age on death row while playing the appeals game.
I recently watched a show about some guy in England who killed his gal back in the 20s. He was found guilty and hung three months later. They didn't fool around in those days.
As a sidebar, in these days of DNA, it seems to me that if a guy can be released immediately because DNA proved he was innocent (rightly so), then the execution process should be speeded up by shortening the appeals process when DNA proves the guy guilty beyond any reasonable doubt.
Watching "Forensics File" sometimes ticks me off at the prosecutors when they let the murderer who is guilty (his DNA all over the place (and IN the body, in the case of rape)) plead guilty "to avoid the death penalty". If they have conclusive proof "there oughtta be a law" that precludes plea-bargaining in these cases.
There are perps that need to be expedited to the next level of Justice.
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