Court (SCOTUS) declines to hear Beazley's appeal - Execution scheduled for Tuesday May 28th

The Dallas Morning News ^ | May 25, 2002 | By ED TIMMS / The Dallas Morning News

[MeekOneGOP]

Court declines to hear Beazley's appeal

Defense to petition court again Tuesday, when Texan is set to die

05/25/2002

By ED TIMMS / The Dallas Morning News

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Friday to review the appeal of Texas death-row inmate Napoleon Beazley, whose case has become a focus of national and international opposition to the capital punishment for youthful offenders.

Mr. Beazley was 17 when he fatally shot Tyler businessman John Luttig during a botched carjacking on April 19, 1994. He is scheduled to be executed Tuesday for Mr. Luttig's murder.

AP

Napoleon Beazley

Attorneys for Mr. Beazley asked the U.S. Supreme Court this week to review his case to determine whether the execution of an offender who was under the age of 18 at the time of the offense violates constitutional prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment.

Prosecutors say Mr. Beazley was an adult in the eyes of the law, committed a horrific crime and deserves the death penalty.

Beazley attorney Walter Long said that he planned to petition the Supreme Court again Tuesday.

Also Online

Stories:
	04/27: Beazley remorseful as execution date is set
	05/18: Tutu joins call to stop execution
Video:
	News from Napoleon Beazley's last stay, Aug. 15, 2001
	Beazley: Age should not be deciding factor
Links:
	Texas Executions (from TXCN.com)
	Offender information (from Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice)
	Amnesty International report on Napoleon Beazley

The Texas Board of Pardons and Parole also could recommend to Gov. Rick Perry that Mr. Beazley's death sentence be commuted. Such recommendations are rarely made.

The board's chairman, Gerald Garrett, said the board members will be reviewing Mr. Beazley's case over the Memorial Day holiday and will make a recommendation to the governor Tuesday.

Mr. Perry also can grant a one-time, 30-day reprieve. That option, too, is rarely exercised.

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Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Scheduled Exectutions
http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/deathrow.htm

http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/statistics/deathrow/drowlist/beazley.jpg

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Previous FR "Beazley" Articles
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/search?m=any&o=time&s=Beazley

[What Is Ain't]

Hasta la vista, baby!

[MeekOneGOP]

Ping a few Texans (and Maxwell!)..........

Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my ping list!. . .don't be shy.

[harpu]

Too bad . . . I guess that means Texas will just have another DEAD MURDERER to plant deep into the Huntsville compost pile.

[MeekOneGOP]

fyi.......

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Friends may call...

[gcruse]

Along similar lines, two 21-year old males who shot and killed a young store clerk during an armed robbery, were convicted in Texas of capital murder, but evidently the prosecution wasn't going for the death penalty, so these two got life sentences. The only difference I can see is that Beazley killed the father of a judge. So he gets death. Oh, another difference is that the two 21-year-olds were not black.

[Brices Crossroads]

This case has generated more than the usual amount of publicity not because of the perp's age but because the victim's son is Michael Luttig, a Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, who also happens to be on the short list of candidates for the next Supreme Court vacancy. No doubt, if he is nominated, some Senator will have the poor taste to ask him a question about the case of his father's murderer.

[GOPyouth]

One of the leading prosecutors who worked this case here in Tyler has a letter from Justice Scalia thanking her for the work she did on the case. This thug needs to die.

[MeekOneGOP]

No doubt, if he is nominated, some Senator will have the poor taste to ask him a question about the case of his father's murderer.

Yeah, if they can get it past the OBSTRUCTIONIST!

Little Tommy Da$$hole:
What did he obstruct?
And when did he obstruct it?
Free the Daschle Fifty
http://freedom.house.gov/library/economics/dasch50.asp

House Majority Leader Dick Armey today called upon Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle to vote on 50 bills that have passed the House and are stalled in the Senate.

"The American people want action," said Armey. "They don't want political posturing. The Democrat-led Senate has a responsibility to vote on legislation. In fact, it's their job."

[LibKill]

BTTT.

[johnny7]

Geez... too bad. Only 25, tsk, tsk.

I heard he went back to Luttig and put another shot to the head just for keeps.

But he was only 17 at the time... a yute! Now, at 25, he is a savvy killer, adept in the legal system.

Fry his a_s quick and let him burn in hell!

[maxwell]

Thanks again for the pings, bro... I ain't had time to wipe my Republican a$$ these days!

Prosecutors say Mr. Beazley was an adult in the eyes of the law, committed a horrific crime and deserves the death penalty.

That's the definitive line for me right there, dudes and dudettes... This is one case where the SPIRIT rather than the letter of the law should be followed...

[MeekOneGOP]