Posted on 06/09/2021 4:01:19 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A South Carolina judge on Tuesday refused to block two executions set for later this month as she considers a lawsuit over the state's new capital punishment law, which effectively forces condemned prisoners to choose to die by either the electric chair or firing squad.
State Circuit Judge Jocelyn Newman issued the decision to let the planned executions of Brad Sigmon and Freddie Owens proceed after their attorneys had argued in court that the men should not be executed while the lawsuit is pending.
The two "have little likelihood of success on the merits of their claim," Newman wrote.
The South Carolina Supreme Court reset Sigmon's execution for June 18 after prison officials indicated the state's electric chair was ready for use. The court scheduled Owens to die a week later, on June 25.
Sigmon, 63, was convicted in 2002 of killing his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat in Greenville County.
Owens, 43, was first sentenced to death in 1999 for the shooting murder two years earlier of a convenience store clerk during an armed robbery, also in Greenville County. He changed his legal name to Khalil Divine Black Sun Allah in 2015, according to court filings.
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One of them changed his name to: “Khalil Divine Black Sun Allah” while he is in prison.
Fry him first.
Two things that stuck out at me:
First, both of these men have been on Death Row for nearly 20 years. Capital punishment should be carried out swiftly.
Second, according to the article, “South Carolina is one of eight states to still use the electric chair and four to allow a firing squad, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Prison officials have not indicated a timeline for when the firing squad would be up and running, though they have said they are researching how other states operate their squads.”
Really? They are having a problem figuring out how to get their firing squad “up and running”? Really? Don’t they have a wall these vermin can be stood up against? They don’t know what kind of rifles or calibers to use? I know it is probably all Leftist squish legal processes being used for delay tactics, but shame on us for letting them get away with it.
At least they have a choice. Their victims did not.
The best thing about possibly ending the death penalty is it will be used on us for wrong-think in the not so distant future.
All the team members want overtime plus health/dental/vision/retirement benefits. They also would like to opt out with full pay if they think they might “feel remorse” if the condemned is “likeable”.
I’m sure all these details will be worked out.
I would agree to outlaw capital punishment if liberals would agree to outlaw abortion.
Governor McMaster signed the firing squad bill into law about two weeks ago. I don’t think it’s unreasonable for officials put some thought into it, and to look at how other states have organized theirs.
I guess that ought to take another twenty years or so, the way things have gone.
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