Posted on 12/12/2022 8:20:43 AM PST by yukong
Oklahoma will not carry out an execution scheduled for Thursday morning because convicted murderer John Fitzgerald Hanson remains in a federal prison in Louisiana.
"His transfer to state authorities for state execution is not in the public interest," a regional director for the Federal Bureau of Prisons told Oklahoma Attorney General John O'Connor in an Oct. 17 letter.
The state is now suing in federal court in Texas for his return.
(Excerpt) Read more at oklahoman.com ...
“Not in the public interest”
What the heck?
To many EVs plugged in at the same time?
Let me guess…yep.
Thank God they stepped in!! He might be innocent!!
Now... on to abortion rights.
“Life becomes cheaper when the cost for taking it does”.— Ernest van den Haag
No need to look, then?
Article IV, Section 2, Clause 2:
A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on Demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime.
Funny, I dont see anything about “best interest”.
It's there. You just have to be a boneheaded liberal to see it.
What, are they taking polls for executions now? Did they ask the family what they thought?
Merrick Garland should be the one on death row.
Hanson, 58, faces execution for the fatal shooting of retired banker Mary Agnes Bowles after he and an accomplice kidnapped her from a Tulsa mall on Aug. 31, 1999. The victim was 77.
They had wanted her car for a robbery spree. Hanson shot her in a ditch near Owasso after the accomplice gunned down a dirt pit owner, Jerald Thurman, who had spotted them on his property, according to testimony at his trial. He later confessed to a friend, saying, "Everything went bad."
No kidding, jackass. It went bad you you and your fellow piece of human debris decided to go on a "robbery spree".
"Oklahoma will not carry out an execution scheduled for Thursday morning because convicted murderer John Fitzgerald Hanson remains in a federal prison in Louisiana."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
I don't know anything about this murder case, so please bear with the following concern.
The congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutioal lawmaker, had clarified that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to make peacetime penal laws, not even for murder!
"Our Constitution never conferred upon the Congress of the United States the power - sacred as life is, first as it is before all other rights which pertain to man on this side of the grave - to protect it in time of peace by the terrors of the penal code within organized states; and Congress has never attempted to do it. There never was a law upon the United States statute-book to punish the murderer for taking away in time of peace the life of the noblest, and the most unoffending, as well, of your citizens, within the limits of any State of the Union [emphases added]. The protection of the citizen in that respect was left to the respective States, and there the power is to-day.” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe. (See bottom half of third column.)
So if I understand this situation correctly, why is a covnicted murder in a federal prision in the first place?
John Fitzgerald Hanson. Smoked Irish?
This so-called “Biden Regime” has literally gone to war....with the American People and apparently, with Russia.
These demented jackasses need to be removed from office.
FJB and his flying monkeys.
The answer is in the article:
“He has spent most of the last 20 years in federal prison, though, for bank robbery and other federal crimes. He is now at the U.S. Penitentiary in Pollock, Louisiana, serving a life sentence.”
Is the Biden's administration's interference because of opposition to the death penalty generally, or just opposition to the death penalty being carried out on a non-white person?
Oklahoma can screw up even an execution. I remember when a local boy went into Oklahoma and murdered two people.
Sentenced to death, when the date came the State completely forgot about him and missed his execution date.
When they realized their mistake, instead of going ahead and carrying out the execution they just resentenced him to life.
And bleep 🤬 every single one of his voters.
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