US executes Virginia gang killer despite COVID-19 infection

The Associated Press ^ | January 15, 2021 | By MICHAEL TARM and DENISE LAVOIE

[HamiltonJay]

Oh you got a cold?!? Awe guess we can’t execute you for the brutal murder(s) you performed. Why is this even a news article!??

[nikos1121]

Haha

Cause of death?

Covid

[milemark]

“Why does it take 28 years to execute a murderer?”

The speed of government. One spends about that much of their lives in line at the DMV.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

Were the victims other gang bangers?

[CommerceComet]

I am not moved.

Stand back, I'm going to try and work up some sympathy for this guy...

Nope. Didn't work. Nothing. No sympathy at all.

[wildcard_redneck]

I expect that his death certificate has COVID as the cause of death.

[dfwgator]

Consider it a cure.

[BiteYourSelf]

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[hanamizu]

Why does it take 28 years to execute a murderer?

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Just barely within living memory, it wasn’t always thus. On February 15, 1933, Giuseppe Zangara tried to shoot President-Elect Franklin Roosevelt, but instead hit Chicago mayor Cermak. Cermak lingered and died on March 6, 1933. Zangara’s attempted murder charge was changed to murder. He was executed on March 20, 1933.

[dfwgator]

Just look how quickly they execute McVeigh.

[JimRed]

Executions should be carried out with baseball bat, blow torch, and box cutter.