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.
C.S. Lewis noted somewhere that there probably isn’t anything like the death penalty to make a soul perk up and take note spiritually. Of course, it didn’t take decades to execute the convicted back in Lewis’ day. This man had many years to consider his end so the Common Law argument cited doesn’t hold up in his 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.
YUGE piles of bullshit.
English Common Law happened after 22 days not 22 years.
If he has dementia and it's really bad, execution is a blessing, maybe it would be better to just let him sit and eat his own feces.
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