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George Will: Abolish the death penalty
The Washington Post ^ | September 28, 2018 | George F. Will

Posted on 09/30/2018 3:06:59 PM PDT by EveningStar

Without being aware of it, Vernon Madison might become a footnote in constitutional law because he is barely aware of anything. For more than 30 years, Alabama, with a tenacity that deserves a better cause, has been trying to execute him for the crime he certainly committed, the 1985 murder of a police officer. Twice the state convicted him unconstitutionally (first excluding African Americans from the jury, then insinuating inadmissible evidence into the record). In a third trial, the judge, who during his time on the bench overrode more life sentences (six) than any other Alabama judge, disregarded the jury’s recommended sentence of life imprisonment and imposed the death penalty...

His counsel of record, Bryan A. Stevenson, head of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Ala., says it was undisputed in the penalty phase of Madison’s third trial that he already “suffered from a mental illness marked by paranoid delusions.” ...

Madison’s case compels us to focus on the death penalty in its granular reality: Assisting someone who is non-ambulatory, and bewildered because he is (in Stevenson's phrase) “memory-disordered,” to be strapped down so an executioner can try to find a vein — often a problem with the elderly — to receive a lethal injection. Capital punishment is withering away because the process of litigating the administration of it is so expensive, and hence disproportionate to any demonstrable enhancement of public safety, but also because of a healthy squeamishness that speaks well of us...

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: atheism; deathpenalty; fakeconservative; fakeeverything; fakenews; georgewill; liberalagenda; nerdwithabowtie; nevertrumper; scotus; vernonmadison; washingtoncompost; will
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1 posted on 09/30/2018 3:06:59 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Abolish George Will.


2 posted on 09/30/2018 3:08:27 PM PDT by TaxPayer2000 (The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government...)
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To: EveningStar

When can we abolish George Will?


3 posted on 09/30/2018 3:08:32 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Science is a method, not a belief system.)
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To: EveningStar

F U G W

Someone comes along and dismembers your wife, children, mom, dad, sibling, or other family member or friends and associates, you can weap for the perp all you want.

Don’t expect me to.

Purge society of these animals.


4 posted on 09/30/2018 3:08:35 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 $215.71 from 50% increase in 1.2183 yrs)
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To: EveningStar

Pfft! Take him out.


5 posted on 09/30/2018 3:08:59 PM PDT by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
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To: EveningStar

If by “abolish” he means “speed up execution of” then I’m in agreement.


6 posted on 09/30/2018 3:09:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: EveningStar

George, nobody gives a damn what you think.


7 posted on 09/30/2018 3:09:19 PM PDT by Artemis Webb (Maxine Waters for House Minority Leader!!)
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To: EveningStar

Right after you hang.


8 posted on 09/30/2018 3:12:08 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Stop the madness. Don't respond to vanity posts.)
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To: EveningStar

What brought this on?

Are the Clintons getting worried about being caught again?


9 posted on 09/30/2018 3:12:33 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: EveningStar
One thing I know for sure, if you execute a murderer, he'll never commit another murder.
10 posted on 09/30/2018 3:13:16 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney (Colonel (Retired) USAF)
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To: EveningStar

Once you’ve succumbed to TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome), going full lib is the logical next step.


11 posted on 09/30/2018 3:13:33 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: EveningStar
What about the police officer whom Madison murdered? Maybe George Will should abolish that death sentence too.
 
12 posted on 09/30/2018 3:13:47 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!)
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To: EveningStar

The UniParty wants it abolished before they’re all prosecuted for sedition and/or treason, especially some of the more well-known names.
No. It’s not going to be abolished. Instead, it’s fixing to be put to good use...hopefully, very soon.


13 posted on 09/30/2018 3:15:23 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: EveningStar

The firing squad works fine George, if finding a vein concerns you. Guillotine works well too.


14 posted on 09/30/2018 3:16:37 PM PDT by MSF BU
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To: EveningStar

I’m against the death penalty for everyone but George Will.


15 posted on 09/30/2018 3:16:44 PM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw
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"No person shall be deprived of LIFE, liberty or property without due process of law."

The death penalty is literally IN the Constitution. Is Will supposing an amendment could pass?

16 posted on 09/30/2018 3:16:58 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: EveningStar

George Will is alive?!!!!

Who knew?!!! More importantly who cares what this turd thinks,


17 posted on 09/30/2018 3:18:09 PM PDT by LeonardFMason (426)
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To: EveningStar

Death wish


18 posted on 09/30/2018 3:19:20 PM PDT by onona (It is often wise to allow a person a graceful path.)
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To: EveningStar
George Will is officially braid dead and needs to be taken off whatever life support ( breathing, eating, etc. ) which now allows him to continue writing this garbage.

Even his ramblings about baseball went off the rails long ago.

19 posted on 09/30/2018 3:19:47 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: EveningStar

I will ONLY agree to Abolishing the DEATH PENALTY FOR GUILTY CRIMINALS....

IF we can ABOLISH the DEATH PENALTY FOR INNOCENT BUT INCONVENIENT BABIES!

MAKE THE DEAL OR LEAVE GEORGE WILL!


20 posted on 09/30/2018 3:21:40 PM PDT by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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