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Alabama Executes Killer Who Rights Group Argued Was Mentally Ill
NBC NEWS ^ | 7/26/2013 | Brendan O'Brien and Verna Gates

Posted on 07/26/2013 11:28:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Alabama executed a convicted murderer on Thursday who prisoners' rights groups said was mentally ill.

Andrew Reid Lackey, 29, was put to death by lethal injection at Holman Prison in Atmore, Alabama, prison officials said. It was the state's first execution since 2011. Lackey was convicted of killing Charlie Newman, an 80-year-old World War Two veteran in Athens, Alabama.

Andrew Reid Lackey, who was executed by Alabama on Thursday, was prescribed multiple psychotropic drugs, according to the Equal Justice Initiative.

Lackey made no statement before his execution, according to prison officials. He was pronounced dead at 6:25 p.m. local time (7:25 p.m. ET). Newman's grandson had told Lackey that his grandfather had a vault filled with gold bars, according to court documents.

On a 911 recording from Newman's home, the veteran's last words were, "Come sit down and let me pray for you." He was trying to calm Lackey, who was a close friend of his grandson, according to court record.

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1 posted on 07/26/2013 11:28:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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I am not sure how being mentally allows you to kill someone and people think you shouldn’t be punished.


2 posted on 07/26/2013 11:30:47 PM PDT by GeronL (Only kidding, I didn't fall for it... er... this time)
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To: nickcarraway

So what. Do they brutal murderers are well adjusted?


3 posted on 07/26/2013 11:31:16 PM PDT by Ophiucus
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To: nickcarraway

What a shame- one less POS for me/we the taxpayers to support.


4 posted on 07/26/2013 11:37:22 PM PDT by Kevin in California
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To: nickcarraway

What’s the problem?

All killers are mentally ill.


5 posted on 07/26/2013 11:47:01 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: nickcarraway

There are the mentally ill and then there are the mentally incompetent. Not that the difference matters anything at all to their victims.


6 posted on 07/26/2013 11:49:40 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: nickcarraway

“Come sit down and let me pray for you.”

Idiot.


7 posted on 07/26/2013 11:50:19 PM PDT by BigCinBigD (...Was that okay?)
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To: GeronL
I am not sure how being mentally allows you to kill someone and people think you shouldn’t be punished.

Ditto. The therapeutic treatment of evil is far more evil than the act of itself.
8 posted on 07/26/2013 11:50:45 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: nickcarraway

I think it’s better is we said the he was “put to sleep” by the State.


9 posted on 07/26/2013 11:57:35 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Democrats: Robbing Peter to buy Paul's vote.)
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Newman's grandson had told Lackey that his grandfather had a vault filled with gold bars, according to court documents.

They executed the wrong person.

10 posted on 07/27/2013 12:12:39 AM PDT by iowamark
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To: nickcarraway

Seems all the reason more to have him taken down.


11 posted on 07/27/2013 12:49:22 AM PDT by MNDude (The system worked!)
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To: nickcarraway

There should be a new verdict:

Guilty BY reason of Gross Insanity with no hope for rehabilitation what so ever!

James Holmes would qualify for this verdict


12 posted on 07/27/2013 12:58:58 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: nickcarraway

Mentally ill? And we’re supposed to care? Why?


13 posted on 07/27/2013 1:09:43 AM PDT by Bullish (Psalm 46)
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To: nickcarraway
Sounds like he murdered a Christian.

Hussein probably wanted to give him a medal.

14 posted on 07/27/2013 1:27:00 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall With no one to raise him up; And I will set)
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Lackey, formerly of Huntsville, was convicted in 2008 in the 2005 Halloween slaying of 80-year-old Charlie Newman (WW II Vet). He shot and stabbed Newman to death during a robbery at Newman’s home on Hine Street in Athens.

Let's add this up shall we. We are supposed to oppose the death penalty because Lackey "shot and stabbed a WWII Vet during a robbery on Halloween". How does that make sense?

15 posted on 07/27/2013 1:52:27 AM PDT by sr4402
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To: nickcarraway
This was posted in the comment section of the article. NBC crowd never ceases to amaze me.

Stig23
Let's face it, 90% of the Southern populace (Black or White) are borderline retarded, why else would they start voting Republican ?? not that the so-called Democrats are the party of the working class anymore but sleazy wedge issue (aka racism and religious intolerance) have somehow changed what was the bastion of the Democratic party into a bunch of Morlocks who vote for Republicans even though it's against their own self interests.

Example: Texas, the current Neanderthal Governor makes even Dub-ya seem like a Mensa star.

Texas, history will judge you, and I don't think it will be kind, except for a few jewels of creativity like Austin

your state would have been better left as part of Mexico.

16 posted on 07/27/2013 2:18:34 AM PDT by Leo58 (Those who cheer you today will curse you tomorrow, the only thing that endures is character.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Call it a 119th trimester abortion and the left will be all for it.


17 posted on 07/27/2013 2:36:13 AM PDT by LukeL (Barack Obama: Jimmy Carter 2 Electric Boogaloo)
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To: PA Engineer; GeronL
The point is that if you are certifiably mentally ill, you are not in your right mind. Severely mentally ill people are in a mental state where they cannot understand whether what they are doing is either right and wrong. Its not that their actions (murder in this case) are justifiable, its that they are culpable for them. This is why I always cringe when people say things like "these terrorist bombers are mad". No they are not mad. That is the frightening thing. If they were mad, I could understand and even excuse their actions. But they arent. They are completely lucid. Not mad but evil.

Of course, what the shrinks never talk about is why incidences of "paranoid schizophrenia", "multiple personality disorders" and so on are so rare in countries where having them is not a legal defence against murder :) IOW, people are playing the system...claiming insanity when they arent in order to avoid punishment.

18 posted on 07/27/2013 2:36:57 AM PDT by Vanders9
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sorry, I meant to say “not culpable”.


19 posted on 07/27/2013 2:37:56 AM PDT by Vanders9
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To: Vanders9

If the person does not need 24-7 care and attention, like a leash, with an attendant they should be help culpable


20 posted on 07/27/2013 3:06:21 AM PDT by GeronL
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