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Arizona Executes Inmate for 1984 Killing of 8-Year-Old Girl
KOCO ^ | Jun 8, 2022 | PAUL DAVENPORT and JACQUES BILLEAUD

Posted on 06/09/2022 3:29:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: NEBO
With the advent of DNA I'll bet that there are far fewer wrongful convictions...particularly in cased involving serious charges. I'd prefer to see 99 truly guilty murderers to be executed along with one who didn't deserve it than to see those 99 avoid execution.

I'm willing to live with an imperfect justice system...because the only alternative is *no* justice system.

41 posted on 06/09/2022 4:34:29 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Ballots)
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To: nickcarraway

should of been done the same day as the virdict.


42 posted on 06/09/2022 4:43:10 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

liberals, of course.

it’s always liberals.


43 posted on 06/09/2022 4:43:46 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Gay State Conservative; NEBO
When I see Merrick Garland, the FBI, and countless other dimensions of the law consciously ignoring justice, and you add many cases of Death Row inmates being released when an evil prosecutor or DNA comes to light, being anti-death penalty on technical/empirical grounds is perfectly legit.

We don't have to give the bad guys the royal treatment. But death had only been cheated by One Man. I can't get behind the chair etc.

Personally, the case of the Amiraults in Mass (and the coverage in the WSJ) helped turn the tide for me, and that wasn't even a capital case. In fact that sombich DA remained in power and unrepentant.

44 posted on 06/09/2022 4:46:57 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: nickcarraway

Vicki Lynne’s father died four years ago.
https://adairfuneralhomes.com/tribute/details/184368/Rodney-Hoskinson/obituary.html

Several photos here:
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2022/06/08/frank-atwood-execution-arizona-vicki-lynne-hoskinson-murder/7547656001/


45 posted on 06/09/2022 4:49:47 PM PDT by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: DoodleBob
I don't have the slightest problem with a person who was convicted of a crime eventually being proven innocent...perhaps in an old case where they decide.years later,to do DNA testing...and being released. This nation doesn't benefit in the least by a person being convicted of something they didn't do.

I really like DNA for *three* reasons: 1) it lessens the chances of an innocent person being charged/convicted 2) it increases the chances that a person wrongly convicted *before* DNA being exonerated and 3) it increases the chances of the truly guilty being caught,convicted and punished.

46 posted on 06/09/2022 4:56:31 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Ballots)
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To: Lurker

I think it’s 38 years.


47 posted on 06/09/2022 4:59:09 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: Nateman

I think it’s 38 years.


48 posted on 06/09/2022 4:59:25 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: nickcarraway

There is NO WAY to characterize this as swift or timely justice. NO WAY.


49 posted on 06/09/2022 5:00:35 PM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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To: Maris Crane

Brnovich is pretending to do his job.


50 posted on 06/09/2022 5:04:12 PM PDT by wjcsux (RIP Rush Limbaugh 12 Jan 1951- 17 Feb 2021. We really miss you. 😢)
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To: nickcarraway

So this convicted murderer of a little girl was given 40 years of housing accommodations, three meals a day, health care, recreation facilities while his little victim rotted in the dirt. And in Arizona and throughout America we call this JUSTICE ??????????????????????????


51 posted on 06/09/2022 5:05:33 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Democrat politicians and voters are dangerously psychotic. They confirm it everyday.)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

And why does it take 38 years to execute a death sentence?
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Because stupid, brain-washed voters are duped and/or bought by politicians who have only one thing in mind: How to stay in office and by doing so getting wealthy at taxpayers expense.


52 posted on 06/09/2022 5:11:16 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Democrat politicians and voters are dangerously psychotic. They confirm it everyday.)
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To: golux

He should’a been dead by 1985.
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He should have been dead within hours of his conviction. Hanged in the public square.


53 posted on 06/09/2022 5:15:44 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Democrat politicians and voters are dangerously psychotic. They confirm it everyday.)
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I say for these people, give them a sex change and sell them to ISIS to live out their days in Big Gay Omar’s Harem


54 posted on 06/09/2022 5:16:08 PM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: nickcarraway

Everybody is boo-hooing over how long this murderer was on death row. The girl died in terror while he goes out with a pillow under his head all nice and comfy. He got all that time with three meals a day and a place to stay while that girl is in the cold ground.


55 posted on 06/09/2022 5:19:22 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: Salvavida

Yeah, way back in the 30’s and before it was maybe four or six months before execution.


56 posted on 06/09/2022 5:20:48 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: Salvavida
Does anyone know of a successful campaign to SHORTEN the length of time it takes to execute someone?

George Lott

In 1992, Lott opened fire inside the County Courthouse in Fort Worth, Texas, killing two lawyers and wounding three others, including two appellate judges. Lott had been indicted a few months earlier on aggravated sexual assault charges for sexually abusing his son. He was convicted, refused all appeals, and was executed two years later.

57 posted on 06/09/2022 5:25:08 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (Dementia Joe is Not My President)
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To: nickcarraway

another crime is that this man got to live a full 35 years after conviction.


58 posted on 06/09/2022 5:25:48 PM PDT by PCPOET7 (`)
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Everybody is boo-hooing over how long this murderer was on death row.

Most people are objecting that he should have been taken out and shot 35 years ago.

59 posted on 06/09/2022 5:28:06 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (Dementia Joe is Not My President)
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To: wjcsux

And he’s running for the Senate, isn’t he?

Of all the nerve. Does he think people are stupid?


60 posted on 06/09/2022 5:34:54 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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