Posted on 07/25/2019 8:31:52 AM PDT by csvset
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department announced on Thursday it was reinstating a two-decades long dormant policy to resume the federal government’s use of capital punishment and immediately scheduled the executions for five death row federal inmates.
“Congress has expressly authorized the death penalty through legislation adopted by the people’s representatives in both houses of Congress and signed by the President,” Attorney General William Barr said in a statement.
“The Justice Department upholds the rule of law - and we owe it to the victims and their families to carry forward the sentence imposed by our justice system.” U.S. President Donald Trump has called for increasing use of the death penalty for drug traffickers and mass shooters.
The Justice Department said it has scheduled executions for five federal inmates who have been convicted of horrific murders and sex crimes.
Those inmates include Daniel Lewis Lee, a white supremacist who was convicted in Arkansas for murdering a family of three, including an eight-year-old girl. Another one of the five is Lezmond Mitchell, who was found guilty by a jury in Arizona of stabbing a 63-year-old grandmother and forcing her young granddaughter to sit next to her lifeless body on a car journey before slitting the girl’s throat.
“Each of these inmates has exhausted their appellate and post-conviction remedies,” the department said, adding that all five executions will take place at the U.S. Penitentiary Terre Haute in Indiana.
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Good news. Ghouls all.
Some people just need killing.
Unless he has an "accident."
Death penalties are a scam by lawyers to keep making money off of the convicted and to drain County budgets until they take the death penalty off the table. I know what I’m talking about, believe me. Just went through one.
??? You just went through a death penalty? I want to know your doctor. ;)
Oh, but wait.. Now come the appeals. It's never ending with lawyers getting rich. Oh and one other piece of information: I knew the killer.
I certainly agree that the system is such that no matter, the lawyers get rich. Not sure why the death penalty should be any more expensive than life sentencing, but you know more about the reality of that. I would only argue that we should get back to where the death penalty is a viable deterrent for some criminals. I can only guess as to how many obstacles stand in the way of that.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
2015: But in a harsh dissent, Judge Stephen Reinhardt said Mitchell deserves a new sentencing hearing because the defense strategy of depicting him as a “good guy” to jurors was “no strategy at all.”
Reinhardt is in Hell, and his sociopath buddy Lezmond is going to join him there, to be eternally raped by demons.
If I ever get out West way, I'll be sure to stop by Stevie Reinfardt's grave and leave a bag of used burritos and a 12-pack of used beer...
Your life sounds a lot more interesting than mine.
I am truly blessed to be an elected official in the most conservative County in AZ, if not the whole West.
Just like the millions wondering WHO ICE will come visit next.
Just like the dozens of traitors on Barr's and US Attorney Durham 's list that are being investigated for their respective roles in the attempted coup against President Trump.
Ditto the Obama White House traitors.
Clapper, Comey and others deserve individual mentions as do Hillary and Hussein.
Hang many of them. shoot a few too so that the message is clear to future generations of traitors.
I’m opposed to that, because that would violate the 8th amendment to the constitution:
“Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.”
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