Posted on 07/15/2020 7:03:21 AM PDT by Stravinsky
For the second time this week, a judge in Washington, D.C. has blocked the Trump administration from resuming federal executions.
U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan granted a preliminary injunction early Wednesday morning to Wesley Ira Purkey, a man who suffers from dementia and schizophrenia who is scheduled to be executed later in the day. The Department of Justice has already appealed Chutkan's order.
The same process occurred earlier this week in the hours leading up to the first federal execution in 17 years. Chutkan had ordered an injunction against the death sentence, only to be overruled by the Supreme Court just hours later, shortly after 2 a.m. on Tuesday.
The administration quickly moved to execute Daniel Lewis Lee later Tuesday morning.
"The speed with which the government seeks to carry out these executions, and the Supreme Court’s prioritization of that pace over additional legal process, makes it considerably more likely that injunctions may issue at the last minute, despite the efforts of Plaintiffs' counsel to raise, and the court to adjudicate, the claims in a timely fashion," Chutkan wrote on Wednesday.
Chutkan, who was appointed by former President Obama, said that the new injunction is warranted because of Purkey's mental state. His lawyers have argued that his dementia prevents him from understanding why he is set to be executed.
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SCOTUS needs to slap this “judge” down hard.
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Roberts says there are no Obama judges. Why is it always an Obama judge who issues these lawless commands?
would the blackrobe prefer to take the convicted’s place?
Biden takes a long sigh of relief.
Convicted of as heinous crime against a minor. Hanging is too good for him.
I am begining to think that there needs to be a “three strikes” rule with regards to judges. Something like ... If your rulings have been struck down three times in the last year ... then:
Suspended for a year
Loss of a portion of retirement
Removed from bench
etc
Wesley Ira Purkey violently raped and murdered a 16-year-old girl, and then dismembered, burned, and dumped the young girl’s body in a septic pond.... He also was convicted in state court for using a claw hammer to bludgeon to death an 80-year-old woman who suffered from polio and walked with a cane.
Born in Jamaica, appointed by Obama.
Just a victim of White Supremacy.
They should have executed this guy twenty years ago. Justice must be swift to be meaningful. He wouldn’t have developed Alzheimer’s yet and there wouldn’t be any Obama judges.
“ The speed with which the government seeks to carry out these executions....”
This guy committed his crime 22 years ago. Convicted in 2003 and sentenced in 2004 meaning he has been on death row 16 years. That is not speed. Taking him out back after sentencing and shooting him in the head would be speed.
There is a certain amount of merit in the Purkey case.
Historically, under the English Common Law, if a person was not considered to have the mental capacity to understand that they were about to be executed, and thus have a final opportunity to “make their peace with their Maker”, they could not legitimately be executed.
The VICTIMS:
16 year old girl who was kidnapped, raped repeatedly, stabbed multiple times to death and was dismembered with a chainsaw, burned her remains, and scattered the ashes in a septic pond, was unavailable for comment on the execution.
The other victim, an 80 year old woman crippled by polio, who was beaten to death with a claw hammer was also unavailable for comment on the execution.
His lawyer says Purkey is remorseful and shouldn’t be executed because he has dementia. Remorseful? The savage killer has dementia! How can he be remorseful?
If he has dementia they can just tell him it is a routine “teeth cleaning”. What’s the difference since he has dementia?
Looks to me like she is at war with SCOTUS...
Judge Tanya...I see the problem immediately...
Michigan’s Judge Theresa Brennan recently did six months in jail for for lying on the stand (in her divorce trial, after committing adultery with a murder trial’s lead cop) and betraying the public’s trust of the judicial system.
Should’ve been years in prison (15 years possible), for all the lives she messed up with her biased, biotchy, b.s judgements while on the bench.
This “judge” should be reprimanded.
No place for this in the courts...any court in America.
Do you really need to have someone explain it to you?
Do you really need to have someone explain it to you?
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