Horsefeathers!
Dirt cheap and kills 'em stone cold dead. Quickly. Painlessly. No MDs, no "pharma companies", no nonsense.
Posted on 01/22/2014 6:59:09 AM PST by mandaladon
HOUSTON — Secretary of State John F. Kerry and a former Texas governor are part of an international coalition trying to halt Texas' execution of a Mexican citizen this week. Edgar Tamayo Arias, 46, is to be put to death Wednesday for fatally shooting Houston Police Officer Guy Gaddis in 1994. Gaddis, 24, had been flagged down near a nightclub by a man who accused Tamayo of robbing him. The officer arrested Tamayo, handcuffed him and put him in the back seat of his patrol car. He was driving away when Tamayo drew a concealed pistol and shot Gaddis three times in the back of the head. On Tuesday, a federal judge in Austin rejected Tamayo's request for an order that would have prevented Gov. Rick Perry and the parole board from considering his clemency petition until the fairness of the state's clemency process could be reviewed. The judge found that the clemency process satisfied constitutional requirements and did not violate Tamayo's right to due process of law. Tamayo's attorneys vowed to keep fighting. "The Texas clemency process is the weakest in the nation, in the state that executes the most. Allowing Mr. Tamayo's fate to be decided by a board that has refused to provide meaningful consideration of evidence that Mr. Tamayo has mental retardation and that his trial was fundamentally unfair as a result of the violation of his consular rights is an affront to what clemency is supposed to be," the attorneys said in a statement. They have petitioned Perry to grant a 30-day reprieve and the parole board to commute Tamayo's death sentence to life in prison. Tamayo, a laborer from Morelos state, Mexico, was in the U.S. illegally at the time of his arrest.
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Maybe this will help with our illegal immigration problem. Come to Texas, commit the ultimate crime and pay the ultimate price. Unlike Mexico, our police and judges will not accept a bribe to let you free.
Wack the cop killer. 20 years late.
Horsefeathers!
Dirt cheap and kills 'em stone cold dead. Quickly. Painlessly. No MDs, no "pharma companies", no nonsense.
You’re preaching to the choir.
I live about 25 miles from where the execution will be, and I have heard that tons of bikers will be there to rev up their bikes to keep protesters chants from being heard :)
One in the head, two in the chest works just as well.
I’m sure Sierra or Hornady can sell the materials needed for execution by lethal injection.
“If you kill someone in Texas, we will kill you back."
I love that guy!!!!!!!!
TEMPORARY DELAY
Supreme Court denies Stay —
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-execution-texas-delay-20140122,0,4841723.story
The execution of a Mexican national was put on hold Wednesday as the U.S. Supreme Court considered appeals to keep 46-year-old Edgar Tamayo from the Texas death chamber.
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