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.
I guess it depends on the definition of “we.”
Were “we” His tool when Roe v Wade was invented?
Was his ex girl friend white & her parents?
There is plenty of justification for the death penalty. To the list of capital crimes, in addition to murder I would add the rape of a minor, boy or girl, or the forcible rape of anybody at any age.
And the penalty should be swift, severe, and certain.
But there is no justification for cheers and celebration when a brutal, hell-bent sinner is executed. If he (or she)is repentant, what we have is the killing of a brother or sister who could be reconciled and live in newness of life. If he or she is not repentant, what we have is the send-off of a doomed soul to a horror which beggars description.
And whether a judiciary system that approves the brutal execution of 4,000 million American babies every single day has the moral authority to pronounce sentence even on the James Earl brutes, is a question to be seriously considered.
After all, the one time Jesus was confronted directly with the imminent application of a Bibllically-justified death penalty, His objection centered not on the guilt or innocense of the condemned person, but on the utter unfitness of those who wanted to carry out the sentence.
Our demeanor should be stern, serious, sorrowful, and mournful in the sight of God who still, with a never-wavering and Fatherly heart, desires "that all men be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth."
A really nice guy... very balanced. 99% of judges hate getting death penalty cases.
There is always that free will thing that gets in the way of things from time to time, but “ I feel that [we as in every one] are working as HIS tools in our lives”
You support the death penalty for statutory rape?
In #43, that’s 4,000 -— not 4,000 million. Spell check unfortunately doesn’t pick up that type of typo!
The Good Book says as clear as day that "MAN" should implement the death penalty. And if you claim that that was Old Testament and we are now under the New, well that argument gets shot down hard by Paul in Romans 13:
3For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. And wouldest thou have no fear of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise from the same: 4 for he is a minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is a minister of God, an avenger for wrath to him that doeth evil.
MAN, executes God's judgment.
An older person raping a child, yes. The younger the child, the more the capital culpability of the rapist.
The state has the power of death. Where the soul goes afterwards is a different department.
Harry Mason Reid ..... Piss poor American. Disgrace to Nevada. Scoundrel of the first order.
A 19 year old girl having consensual sex with an underage (16) year old boy.
Fry her?
Thank God, “the worthless POS has been eradicated from breathing our good air.”
You are probably right on your conclusion about the protestor true feelings, on abortion. Funny how lunatics as her, have already been born and support abortion.
Just The Facts,
NSNR
(Rolls eyes.) I didn’t say that. Read from the phrase “the younger the child..”
Plus you may have noticed that a more central point of mine was that, without adverting to the degree of guilt of the offender, the moral fitness of our baby-killing political-judicial system to execute anybody is in serious question.
And don’t forget “p-ss on his victims”.
The Catholic Church does not forbid recourse to the death penalty. To wit:
"2267 Assuming that the guilty party's identity and responsibility have been fully determined, the traditional teaching of the Church does not exclude recourse to the death penalty, if this is the only possible way of effectively defending human lives against the unjust aggressor. " From The Catechism of the Catholic Church
Worth reading in contest at the link.
The Catechism goes on to say that if society can be adequately protected in some way short of the death penalty, the non-lethal approach should be preferred.
That, however, rests on a question of fact, not of moral principle. And as a matter of fact, convicted killers overwhelmingly do not get life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Further, aggressive criminals continue their aggressive assaults against other prisoners, and against prison personnel every day. So experinece has demonstrated that imprisonment of murderers has not adequately safeguarded the security of society.
Thus the Church admits the applicability of the death penalty, even in a country like the U.S. which as a so-called "modern" penal system which nevertheless is not rendering the convicts "incapable of doing harm."
Some people called Monica Lewinsky a child.
To be clear, you should include an actual age. You are talking about executing people who had consensual sex.
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