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 jurys 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 Madisons third trial that he already suffered from a mental illness marked by paranoid delusions. ...
Madisons 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 ...
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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.
Dont expect me to.
Purge society of these animals. ]
Just as long as we have tacos and kebabs, instead of boring European food, then I am sure we can overlook someone slaughtering our daughters... Just ask that one idiot in Iowa...
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Dear Mister Will:
The above statement from your piece is completely fallacious.
A is simply not related to B.
At all.
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The problem is a system that allows lawyers to drag put the process for 30+ years. Never happens in Texas.
It’s official (if it wasn’t already): George Will is done. Finito.
How quaint, a NE liberal feigning caring for black people...if he cared, he’d protest outside a welfare office against workers who get raises when they get more dependents...instead of helping get off dependency. He’d be singing the praises of Booker T Washington, Thomas Sowell, and Walter Williams...instead...crickets.
George Will has never had a black person over for dinner and the only one on his property is likely working in the yard or picking up his trash cans.
What a loser, eh!
Do we still have to be subjected to ‘Will’s Swill’.
I thought George Will and Bill Kristol had eloped and were spending an extended honeymoon on Fantasy Island.
I think we should abolish death row..
Anyone sentenced to death should leave the courtroom, be executed and planted.
I’ll second that.
George Will is wifty!
“George Will: Abolish the death penalty”
George Will quotes Earl Warren to advance his “conservative” agenda.
Impeach Earl Warren. Impeach George Will.
More nonsense from the Village Idiot.
Maimonides argued that unless you have 100% certainty of guilt you must not impose the death penalty. In his day this usually meant banishment as there was no real method of life imprisonment. Today we have that luxury. It is why I do support capital punishment but there must not be any doubt at all and this criteria should rise above reasonable doubt.
Maimonides argued that unless you have 100% certainty of guilt you must not impose the death penalty. In his day this usually meant banishment as there was no real method of life imprisonment. Today we have that luxury. It is why I do support capital punishment but there must not be any doubt at all and this criteria should rise above reasonable doubt.
Hey dummy, Will. You do understand that the DP is a great bargaining chip? For example, they offered to take the death penalty off the table for the Green River Killer if he lead them to the remains of some bodies because the families wanted their loved ones back.
Also in cases where the people did the crime it’s used to make deals to save a ton of money for trials. “You’re looking at the death penalty, but if you tell us what happened we can negotiate” etc.
This is the babble of an elitist who doesn’t get the real world.
So he did it but Will says we shouldn’t kill him for it.
Bullshit. He knew what he did when he did it. The fact they claim he doesn’t understand it now doesn’t mean a damn thing.
Fry his ass.
I want that “The Will” gets his willy whipped off with a weed wacker!
If someone Murders my Family and ends up getting Life, I will do whatever is necessary to move them to up to the next step in Punishment.
Of course, getting the Death Penalty is pretty much the same Punishment. Can’t remember the last Murderer being Executed in CA, especially with the likes of former AG Harris and the new Commie Bastard that replaced her.
Support for the death penalty is a mile wide and an inch deep. If life imprisonment meant what it says support for capital punishment would go down big. Trump should get in front of this.
For several months I watched “Court TV”.
I have come to doubt the American judicial system. I have seen juries make stupid decisions either way. If I were an innocent man being tried for murder by a jury, I would be terrified.
I still think there are some crimes where death is the only just punishment.
On the other hand I have seen some of those cases where the “Innocence Project” finds innocent people who are not innocent at all.
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