Posted on 07/26/2023 6:04:38 PM PDT by Republicans 2016 2020
A federal appeals court panel has halted next month’s planned execution of a 45-year-old Missouri man convicted of killing a 6-year-old girl, though the state is appealing the ruling.
The three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday voted 2-1 to stop the execution of Johnny Johnson, who is scheduled to receive a lethal injection next Tuesday at the state prison in Bonne Terre for killing Casey Williamson after trying to sexually assault her in 2002.
The Missouri Attorney General’s Office responded by asking that the full 8th Circuit court reconsider the case, which will likely end up before the U.S. Supreme Court before the scheduled execution date.
Attorneys for Johnson have claimed he isn’t mentally competent to be executed because his schizophrenia prevents him from understanding the link between his crime and the punishment. They have also said Johnson has delusions about the devil using his death to bring about the end of the world.
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Uh, what? SMDH.
OFF him & be done with it.
HE BE BROKEN
When food is not available for normal persons-—WILL the Mentally ill be executed to feed others instead????
How about other prisoners???
I think every man and woman who pull this excuse should still be executed. Every single one.
You can’t tell me they don’t have a shrink somewhere that can explain to the boy the link between killing someone and getting executed for killing them. It’s not rocket science.
What kind of traitorous mentality would promote such idiocy. The murderer is to be executed for murder, whether he understands the link between his crime and the punishment or not. He understood enough to murder, was found guilty, and that's what he is to be executed for.
When felons are about to murder their victims do they hesitate and decide to let the innocent victims go?
No.
IMO anyone who intentionally kills an innocent person is crazy.
So what?
Whether they decide to stop or restart the execution, I have a problem with the federal courts getting into states’ business. It is not the federal courts job to over rule state courts to include the state supreme court that is the highest law enforcing group in the state.
States have different laws, different procedures, and different ways of determining the use of the death penalty if they use it at all. The feds are getting into state business and re-writing that state’s laws and legislation from the bench not attached to the state line of control. In other words, legislation without representation. They shouldn’t have heard the case as they have nothing to do with the state determinations and are literally over ruling it without a participation in the case. An example of the opposite direction would be the feds deciding to execute the individual when the state does not use capital punishment. They are taking the laws established by the people away from them.
wy69
Judge L. Steven Grasz dissented from the order but didn’t write separately to explain his reasoning.
Jane Kelly [Obama stooge, of course] and Ralph R. Erickson [McConnell stooge, of course - 95 to 1 confirmation vote] were the two voting to halt the rubbing-out of the waste of oxygen.
L. Steven Grasz is a Trump judge:
On December 7, 2017, [Grasz's] nomination was reported out of committee by an 11–9 vote. On December 11, 2017, the United States Senate invoked cloture on his nomination by a 48–47 vote. On December 12, 2017, his nomination was confirmed by a 50–48 vote, with Senators John McCain and Thad Cochran absent.
Federal courts have too much power. Some sort of reform is necessary. Look at Israel with Bibi. I know their situation is different. But it’s still relevant. A federal judge shouldn’t be able to have this much power.
I don’t agree that “every single one” should be but I will agree with you that many, and probably most, that make this claim should be.
Liberal anti death penalty attorneys and their financial backers make a profession out of defending convicted killers and abusing the legislature’s “intent” on a law to save these killers doesn’t bother them one bit.
The original intent of these type laws was to guard against people who really were INSANE and did not have a clue what’s going on.
Insanity is a subjective measure. Shrinks are some of the most whacked out people on earth. A large percentage of shrinks are getting therapy while practicing. Further many shrinks lean left or hard left and use their positions to prevent executions.
Why are we discussing his mental awareness, wheres the FN switch! he killed a little girl! Those who protect him should be sitting on his lap when the time comes
....I could not agree with your comment/post more.
It looks like something I’ve probably written previously.
....I could not agree with your comment/post more.
It looks like something I’ve probably written previously.
You may not like the people in the positions that made the call, but my problem is that the federal government has stretched their control out over states by determining a state decided action overturned.
The use of the death penalty is not under the control of the feds, but at each individual state to decide to use it. So why are the feds allowed to over rule a decision to change the use of the state’s laws on punishment when they don’t have the option of determining if the state can use it at all? It’s like they can say a person can’t drive a car even though that is within the determination of the state as to the license to drive on their roads. They shouldn’t have the authority.
wy69
You may not like the people in the positions that made the call, but my problem is that the federal government has stretched their control out over states by determining a state decided action overturned.
The use of the death penalty is not under the control of the feds, but at each individual state to decide to use it. So why are the feds allowed to over rule a decision to change the use of the state’s laws on punishment when they don’t have the option of determining if the state can use it at all? It’s like they can say a person can’t drive a car even though that is within the determination of the state as to the license to drive on their roads. They shouldn’t have the authority.
wy69
Perp’s defense is more of a reason to execute him. A major threat to every one as long as he lives.
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