Posted on 07/11/2020 8:21:13 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson, of the Southern District of Indiana, sided with the family of Lee's victims, who had pleaded for a delay given the coronavirus pandemic.
Lee's death was expected to usher in a new era for the death penalty in the United States, and three other men convicted for murdering children were slated to be killed in the coming weeks.
Earlene Peterson -- whose daughter, granddaughter and son-in-law were tortured, killed and dumped in a lake by Lee and an accomplice -- has opposed Lee's execution, telling CNN last year that she did not want it done in her name.
Peterson, 81, and other family members had filed suit on Tuesday, asking the Indianapolis court to delay the execution because they are medically vulnerable to the virus and arguing that traveling to Indiana to witness the execution would place them "at grave risk of life-threatening complications from COVID-19."
In December, the Supreme Court upheld a lower court blocking the death sentence from being carried out last year. But an appeals court decided in April that the executions could move forward, and Barr set new dates for Lee and three other men in June. Since then, lawyers for the men have made several last-ditch efforts to delay the executions, including the lawsuit that was filed this week by the family of Lee's victims.
The three other federal inmates ordered to be executed in the days and weeks that follow are Wesley Ira Purkey for raping and murdering a 16-year-old girl; Dustin Lee Honken, for shooting and killing five people, including two young girls; and Keith Dwayne Nelson for kidnapping, raping and strangling to death a 10-year-old girl.
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Otherwise you have a society in which vendetta and blood-feuding are the norm, which is not a very pleasant thing.
Even accepting their claim at face value it can’t 9shouldn’t) stop the execution. The killer has exhausted his appeals, and his rights are the only ones which matter.
“...she did not want it done in her name.”
It’s not in YOUR name lady, it’s in the name of the law! There should be no mercy in such cases.
When McVeigh got the business, other than a few Jesuits in fro t of the prison doing a lackluster rendition of Jesus carrying the Cross, not much was heard from the anti DP groups. Same with Larry Brewer, a White supremacist when he was executed for killing James Bird, a Black man. Not that these POS’s didn’t deserve it, Dylann Roof is on death row for shooting up that Black church in Charleston, SC. Maybe Rage Against the Machine can do a benefit concert to commute his sentence, perhaps do a smarmy rendition of Knocking on Heavens Door? Funny how the left thinks they’re slick when it comes to picking and choosing their battles
“...and three other men convicted for murdering children were slated to be killed in the coming weeks”
Notice the wording? The convicted murderers are slated to be “killed”... as if a murderer didn’t earn execution.
“Kill” is an imprecise word as their victims were also “ killed”. To paraphrase one of my Jr. High English teachers who disliked her students to use the word “got”.
“There is always a more precise word to use then the word “kill”. Be sure to find that precise word to accurately write and say what you mean.”
WhammyBammy judge, since 2016.
The Execution should go on as planned and the Judge should take his place.
It is not being done in your name Ms Peterson. It is being done in the name of JUSTICE.
The Clinton DoJ put him on the express line for execution. Maybe they were afraid of what he might say?! Like links to Iraq and Saddam Hussein....
It is not being done in your name Ms Peterson. It is being done in the name of JUSTICE.
It is being done in the name of sanitation.
McVeigh ended his own appeals. He could have stretched it out years longer.
Earlene Peterson — whose daughter, granddaughter and son-in-law were tortured, killed and dumped in a lake by Lee and an accomplice — has opposed Lee’s execution, telling CNN last year that she did not want it done in her name.
Hey, Earlene, this is where that “fluid intelligence” comes in.
Sorry to say that most should not be voting either.
We wouldn't be here.
Straws to the left of me, straws to the right of me straws all around within my grasp. Grab one!
SPJNK!
I’ll tell your thoughts on women being judges to Judge Jeanine Pirro next time I see her.
Give them a live video feed.
Plenty of students & workers are using the internet to keep on working...
Compassion and Justice are sisters tho they don’t always get along very well or yield the best results.
[[and arguing that traveling to Indiana to witness the execution would place them “at grave risk of life-threatening complications from COVID-19.”]]
Hmmm- no hazmat suits around?
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