Posted on 01/29/2015 7:33:05 PM PST by PROCON
Texas on Thursday executed a man convicted of fatally beating a mentally disabled woman -- after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected arguments that he has an IQ of 67 and should be exempt from the death penalty.
In his final statement before the lethal injection, Robert Ladd, 57, addressed the sister of his victim by name, telling her he was "really, really sorry."
Ladd was sentenced to death for hammering, strangling and setting ablaze 38-year-old Vicki Ann Garner in 1996 — while he was on parole for a 1980 stabbing and arson that killed a woman and two children.
Ladd's lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union said his IQ fell below the threshold generally accepted for impairment, which prosecutors disputed.
"Texas aggressively pursued Mr. Ladd's execution, despite the fact that our constitution categorically prohibits the use of capital punishment against persons with intellectual disability," defense lawyer Brian Stull said in a statement.
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Seems he was capable of killing before ...
Yes. They should also execute whoever was responsible for letting him out. Complicity to murder?
Warden: OK Bob.
Tell me who’s buried in Grant’s tomb and we won’t throw the switch.
(crickets)
No clue, huh?
Flip it Ed!
“our constitution categorically prohibits the use of capital punishment against persons with intellectual disability,” defense lawyer Brian Stull said in a statement”
Chapter and verse please.
It’s hard to say he even murdered the ‘victim”. After all he seems to have been “unarmed”, just as St. Trayvon of the Skittles (SBUH), since all he did was hammer, strangle, and burn the “victim.”
I think that puts him 2 points over old plugs, and he’s V.P.
That’s still higher than half the members of Congress.
So he was too dumb to know that we were killing him. What’s the problem?
The guy was a killin machine, and he was taken out of service. (I’m still laughing at SBUH)
Go Texas go! Enforce the death penalty! Speed up the appeals process! The death penalty is the ultimate deterrent.
Yes, the world has gone crazy. Why do they keep releasing these predators? Watched a crime show the other night where some guy had murdered a fellow teenager 30 years ago and had molested many young boys at the same time. When they found the guy, he was in prison for trying to solicit a child for sex. He only got another 7 1/2 years for the murder and is now out of prison. I’m sure he is already abusing other children. People this evil should be executed or spend their entire lives in prison.
Also, is someone has enough brain cells to commit a violent crime, he should be punished for it.
Bad Ladd...
Well said.
He maynot be real smart...but I hazard to guess he knows what “you made me mad so I’m gonna kill ya” is.
When are they going to execute the judge who let this animal out on bail? After all, *he* is responsible as well.
Good riddance. Isn’t it bias smart people if retards are off the hook for murders? All those whining are Smartophobic.
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