Posted on 12/01/2005 11:37:49 PM PST by NapkinUser
The US has carried out the 1,000th execution since capital punishment was reintroduced in 1976. Kenneth Boyd, a convicted killer, was put to death by lethal injection in North Carolina for the murder of his estranged wife and her father in 1988.
He was given three drugs - one to put him to sleep, another to paralyse him, and a third to stop his heart.
Boyd, 57, has said the death penalty is "nothing but revenge". Relatives of his victims say he deserves to die.
Boyd was pronounced dead at 0215 (0715 GMT), state Department of Correction spokeswoman Pam Walker said.
Any hope of a reprieve ended when the Supreme Court rejected Boyd's final appeal and the North Carolina Governor, Mike Easley, said he could find "no compelling reason to grant clemency".
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
I was thinking that, too; when I heard a news report saying that protestors outside were reading the names of the 1,000
executed people, I thought, how about the names of all
their VICTIMS??
>>after being convicted of stalking and shooting his estranged wife, Julie, and her father, Thomas.
There's two victims right there. Boyd got to live 17 years longer than they did.
IMHO, EVERYONE who is convicted of murder should get the death penalty...no exceptions. The vast majority of those who have committed a violent rape should likewise be considered candidates for the death penalty, as well as those who sexually abuse an innocent child (depending on the severity of the case & how the child was affected by the abuse).
I say leave those of us who enjoy & responsibly use marijuana ALONE, & EXPAND the death penalty in order to get rid of the worst of the worst in our prisons. Make the executions a public event while we're at it, in order to send a message that such violent behavior will not be allowed. Our prison overcrowding problem would then be settled overnight.
Mass. still has no Death Penalty. There have been motions to bring it back, but to no avail. A referendum passed, IIRC,
but the state legislature shot it down somehow. More recently,
Gov. Mitt Romney's attempt to bring back a watered down
death penalty also went down to defeat by the state
senators & reps.
There was a murderer a couple years ago, Gary Lee Sampson,
who might be executed in Mass.--but only because his crimes
fell under federal jurisdiction (carjackings involved?).
ABC news just called Boyd's execution a "grim milestone"...... Grim?? LOL How about another killer who can never harm anyone ever again? I wonder how many daily abortions that ABC and the other old timers might call "grim"?
Hooray!!!!!!!!!!!!
hmmm...Alabama's got some catching up to do :(
On case anyone is interested, I saw an interesting article ar DUmmieland on the notable #1000 execution. I do not know how in the hell the guy got his post in there. He made referance to Dems being against the death penalty but in favor of abortion and reffered to women as "bitches". The few early morning DUmmies responding could not figure him out. I predict he will be banned in minutes. So look quick before it is gone into the memory hole.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1960663
We in Virginia could have had the 1000th, but no, that loser Mark Warner had to hand it to NC, a state hardly deserving of the honor since it has only executed 38 to VA's 94 since the death penalty was reinstated.
If you look at it in terms of executions per average population over the time span in question, tiny Delaware actually executes people at a higher rate than Texas. Yet Texas gets the bad rap from the liberals.
VA beats out TX on a per capita basis or so I've been told.
Murder is rarely prosecuted in federal courts. Although we do have a number of military cases in which the accused have been sitting on death row for years with no Commander in Chief with the guts to sign the warrant.
And your can bet your boots that the leftists will NEVER mention the 45,000,000+ unborn children that have been murdered by abortion.
Ted Koppel reading the names of all 1,000 executed felons on live TV? Count on it! Won't be the first time he used deaths to advance his ideology.
Morning Lurker,
The execution of the murdering criminal (POS) should be termed," Doing What Must Be Done" in the name of rightous justice.
I always laugh at those slime infested liberals(communists) who seek a stay of execution, of convicted rabid murders. However, they have no problem with the murder of innocent unborn babies in the purtid plannned parenthood clinics and other abortion killing factories.
The death penalty when executed, is a very good deterrent against the murdering criminals. In executing them, we have one less POS to support in prison and one less democrat to vote a communist in office.
As I See It,
NSNR-FATD&S
Morning BB,
The POS looks like one real upstanding citizen. May satan will greet him cordially, as he enters the inferno of hell.
Maybe billy blythe klintoon, will feel his pain and seek a stay of execution.
I do not think the HBO Program will save this murderer sorry ass.
I wonder if he believes in satan? He is about to meet him on the (low low.)smile
Justice Perceived is Justice Achieved,
NSNR-FATD&S
Amen!
"Horray for the child that makes it through" - CREED
R3
What kind of "justice" allows a cold-blooded murderer to live SEVENTEEN YEARS longer than those he killed? There ought to be a five year appeals limit on these cases, afterwhich the sentence should be carried out. In many cases, if the scum were out on the street, they wouldn't live as long as they do on death row!
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