Posted on 07/24/2008 10:24:17 AM PDT by tobyhill
(CNN) — Support for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama extend to death row Wednesday.
According to The Jackson Clarion Ledger, a Mississippi newspaper, death row inmate Dale Leo Bishop's final words before being executed Wednesday night included an appeal to Americans to vote for the Illinois senator.
"For those who oppose the death penalty and want to see it end, our best bet is to vote for Barack Obama because his supporters have been working behind the scenes to end this practice," Bishop said, according to the paper.
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For McCain...
I guess we know how he’s voting in November.
Bishop was convicted in 2000 of participating in the murder of a man who was beaten to death with a claw hammer two years earlier.
Oh, yeah, that convinces me!
Now.... Does that guy get to vote via absentee ballot?
As if I needed one MORE reason not to vote for Obama...
This one will certainly do. Convicted murderers need to be permanently rehabilitated. And the death penalty does that.
...just one of tens of thousands of dead people who will be voting democrat in 2008...
He couldn’t vote because he is a convicted felon and now a dead felon
Haley has been trying to get him gigged for a bit now. They came to him for a reprieve in the last hour, and he just said “No”...
Bishop would be your typical Obama supporter in the free world.
It’s Mississippi, may not matter. We have some counties with 5000 voters who have cast 8000 votes a few times...
Man, I dunno - when you look at the spectrum of support Obama is getting, from Hamas to the Iranian Bassij, Kim Il Jung to Ahmadinejad, a claw hammer murderer to a suicide bomber, well, I have to tell you I’m pretty impressed. That’s the maniac demographic all sewed up. Even Al Capone is voting for Bambi - first, he’s a Chicago homeboy, second, he’s a crook, third, he’s a homicidal maniac, and fourth, he’s dead. Classic Democrat.
We all know Obamamama will get the dead vote.
He was a democrat which means he’ll still cast a vote for Obama.
His lawyer followed up with this statement: “He is now officially on the voter rolls in Chicago. Thank you.”
“For those who oppose the death penalty and want to see it end, our best bet is to vote for Barack Obama because his supporters have been working behind the scenes to end this practice,”
What was Dale doing ‘behind the scenes’ to get himself in slam? How many helpless old ladies did he murder ... how many little kids did he ruin ... how many cops did he off????
Former???
Just because he's a felon, and dead, is no reason to assume he won't be voting for Obama.
Ahh, but being a democrat trumps death when it comes to voting and the fact that he was a felon is a democrat resume enhancer.
He should have spent all of his final breaths admitting his guilt and begging for the forgiveness of society and moreso the family and friends of the person he murdered.
Damn him to hell.
I think there’s something about convicts not being able to vote...oh wait a minute BHO’s for restoring those rights to convicts isn’t he!
Isn’t nice to see how much violent murderers care about society just before they ride the lightning?
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