Posted on 11/09/2009 10:11:31 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to block Tuesday's scheduled execution of sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad.
The Court did not comment Monday on why it refused to consider his appeal.
Muhammad is scheduled to die by injection at a Virginia prison for the slaying of Dean Harold Meyers at a gas station during a three-week spree in October 2002 across Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
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Good. Let’s ROLL!!!
Me too. This could be verrry interesting. You know he wants to, but will he? Hmmmmmm......
Sorry for double post!
All of them should die for their crimes. Muhammed will die Tuesday, Akbar has been sentenced to die...and I belive Hasan will be too.
Sadly though, I do not expect the current occupant of the White House to form in direct, meaningful, or effective response to the situation of these enemies operating within.
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA'S UPBRINGING
Injection?
This situation calls for a rough-pine gallows.
darn SCOTUS tea-baggers...
I never realized that the President's power to pardon was limited to crimes against the United States. Thanks!
But it did have something to say:
JUSTICES' FULL STATEMENT:This case highlights once again the perversity of executing inmates before their appeals process has been fully concluded. Under our normal practice, Muhammad’stimely petition for certiorari would have been reviewed at our Conference on November 24, 2009. Virginia hasscheduled his execution for November 10, however, so we must resolve the petition on an expedited basis unless we grant a temporary stay. By denying Muhammad’s stay application, we have allowed Virginia to truncate ourdeliberative process on a matter—involving a death row inmate—that demands the most careful attention. This result is particularly unfortunate in light of the limited time Muhammad was given to make his case in the District Court.
I continue to believe that the Court would be wise to adopt a practice of staying all executions scheduled inadvance of the completion of our review of a capital defendant’s first application for a federal writ of habeas corpus.See, e.g., Emmett v. Kelly, 552 U. S. 942 (2007) (STEVENS, J., joined by GINSBURG, J., respecting denial of certiorari); Breard v. Greene, 523 U. S. 371, 379 (1998) (STEVENS, J., dissenting). Such a practice would give meaningful effect to the distinction Congress has drawn between first andsuccessive habeas petitions. See 28 U. S. C. §2244(b). It would also serve the interests of avoiding irreversibleerror, facilitating the efficient management of our docket, and preserving basic fairness by ensuring death row inmates receive the same procedural safeguards that ordinary inmates receive.
Having reviewed petitioner’s claims, I do not dissent from the Court’s decision to deny certiorari. “I do, however, remain firmly convinced that no State should be allowed to foreshorten this Court’s orderly review of . . . first-time habeas petition[s] by executing prisoners before that review can be completed.” Emmett, 552 U. S., at 943.
7 years is enough time to clear the technical legal hurdles.
Tape the execution and funeral. Bury him wrapped in bacon. Show Hasan the tape.
Colour me shocked.
NOT!
That was a comment from three justices, not the court as a whole.
Kaine has said he sees no reason to stop this.
they had 7 years. It’s not the state’s fault they are inefficient, and can’t be bothered to keep up with paperwork...
Good reason for a Tuesday “shout out”. Ping me when this sack-of-dung is dead.
But I agree with taping it and showing the tape to POS Hasan ... Heck, let him watch it by live feed.
He has a date with the same ignominious end.
If they do it, it will be a battlecry going into 2010. The GOP would win the biggest majority since the supermajority the Dems had in the Seventies.
It will be good news if this piece of something that passed through the digestive tract of a pig actually becomes worm food.
I won’t believe it until it’s over. This thing has double protection.
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