Posted on 11/10/2009 9:08:01 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine has cleared the way for the execution of sniper John Allen Muhammad.
Kaine denied Muhammad's clemency request Tuesday. Muhammad is scheduled to die by lethal injection Tuesday night at a Virginia prison for killing Dean Harold Meyers at a gas station during a three-week spree that left 10 people dead in 2002 across Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
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I still think they should use him for spare parts.
I’m sure there is some person who needs an organ
transplant.
Hey mohammed, how you gonna get those virgins
if you are “undead”?
Would you want any part of him implanted into you?
The website is outdated. The blog is kept current.
Hard to imagine anyone could be thinking about eating a last meal when they know....it’s their last meal!
At least the bastard will have to see it coming. Now we just need to hope his accomplice gets snuffed in the joint.
You really want to watch a man die?
They need to hang him or dust off old sparky, and put it on television.
“I don’t think this pig stuff works with black Muslims.”
In that case, make his last meal CRACKERS and WHITE BREAD.
Ya know ... If I cooked it, it really would be his last meal ... and if he lived long enough to see the inside of the execution chamber, that would mean that I had messed up somehow.
If we still did it by firing squad or hanging, then yes I’d want it broadcast. Public lethal injection wouldn’t have the same visceral deterrent effect; it’s just a guy going to sleep and a physician confirming death (which, sadly, people witness in hospitals every day). You only hide what you’re ashamed of, and there’s no shame in carrying out a just punishment.
“Hey Satan - company’s comin’!”
Lethal injection is just too damn easy.
I had a sausage and cheese omellette this morning and would have gladly given him some. Mmm...tastes good! So much for meeting the 72 virgins, though, man...
I don’t think the death penalty really has much of a deterrent effect. People have been murdering others forever, and so far, nothing seems to stop them. I think it should be done with no more fanfare than stepping on a cockroach. He doesn’t deserve to even have his name mentioned after the death sentence is declared.
I worked in the Middle East for 22 years. They deal out punishment in a sports stadium. That is what we need in this country. Let everyone know what will happen to you if you commit a crime.
Only tragedy here is they can only kill him once.
I see nothing wrong with public executions. It shows everyone that yes, there are consequences to inflicting evil upon others.
Though I have to say I like how they do things in Japan. In that country, the condemned does not know he is about to be executed until an hour beforehand.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,573584,00.html
>>For the families of those killed, the day is a long time coming. Cheryll Witz is one of several victims’ relatives who were going to watch the execution. Malvo confessed that, at Muhammad’s direction, he shot her father, Jerry Taylor, on a Tucson, Arizona, golf course in March 2002.
“He basically watched my dad breathe his last breath,” she said. “Why shouldn’t I watch his last breath?”
>>The shootings terrorized the Washington region, with victims gunned down while doing everyday chores like shopping or pumping gas. People stayed indoors. Those who had to go outside weaved as they walked or bobbed their heads to make themselves less of a target.
>>The terror ended on Oct. 24, 2002, when police captured Muhammad and Malvo as they slept at a Maryland rest stop in a car they had outfitted so a shooter could hide in the trunk and fire through a hole in the body of the vehicle. Malvo is serving a life sentence in Virginia.
>>Death penalty opponents planned vigils across the state, and some were headed for Jarratt, about an hour south of Richmond, for the execution. Beth Panilaitis, executive director of Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, said those who planned to protest understand the fear that gripped the community, and the nation, during the attacks.
Oh please! The recidivism rate for those executed is zero.
Lest we forget what can happen when murderers are simply
jailed:
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Horton
On October 26, 1974, in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Horton and two accomplices robbed Joseph Fournier, a 17-year-old gas station attendant, stabbing him 19 times after he had cooperated by handing over all of the money in the cash register. His body was dumped in a trash can. Fournier died from blood loss. Horton was convicted of murder, sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, and incarcerated at the Concord Correctional Facility in Massachusetts.
(He’s in there for life, right? Wrong.)
>>On June 6, 1986, he was released as part of a weekend furlough program but did not return. On April 3, 1987 in Oxon Hill, Maryland, Horton twice raped a local woman after pistol-whipping, knifing, binding, and gagging her fiancé. He then stole the car belonging to the man he had assaulted, but was later captured by police after a chase. On October 20, Horton was sentenced in Maryland to two consecutive life terms plus 85 years. The sentencing judge, Vincent J. Femia, refused to return Horton to Massachusetts, saying, “I’m not prepared to take the chance that Mr. Horton might again be furloughed or otherwise released. This man should never draw a breath of free air again.”
I done been manifested by a miracle! I doun eats no swine, I doun drinks no wine! Allah Akbar!
I think for a lotta brothas, it's just a way to distinguish themselves, like white kids getting piercings (which more or less say they hate at least one white person: themselves.)
That won’t happen here, besides, people will just turn the channel.
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