Posted on 04/07/2020 4:32:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A federal judge has rejected a bid by the suspect in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting to have the death penalty removed as a potential sentencing option.
Lawyers for Robert Bowers argued that capital punishment violates the Fifth Amendment’s due process clause and the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
Senior District Judge Donetta W. Ambrose noted in a trio of rulings Monday that courts have consistently upheld the constitutionality of the death penalty.
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The hot squat seems about right in this case.
The 8th Amendment does not apply because the definition of cruel is inflicting pain for the sake of pain, as opposed to incidental to the mechanism of death.
Tie him to cinder blocks and toss him in Lake Erie!
Good.
What? And pollute the water? Oh, it already is?
Good!
Stoning, burning, strangulation or decapitation.
Heck...why not all four!
Most American Jews oppose the death penalty.
Justice delayed . . . again.
The perp has nothing to worry about.
Governor Tommie “the Commie” Wolf’s first act was to declare a moratorium on applying the death penalty.
It’s a federal case and the good governor does not have a say...
I am favor of firing squads. Quick, cheap & final.
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