Posted on 02/14/2010 11:57:29 AM PST by Between the Lines
Edited on 02/14/2010 4:43:36 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
The oldest death row inmate in the U.S. has died of natural causes at age 94.
An Arizona Department of Corrections spokesman says Viva Leroy Nash died late Friday at the state's prison complex in Florence.
Nash was still on death row, but spokesman Barrett Marson said Sunday he did not know if Nash died in his cell or in a medical facility at the prison.
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How dare he die before being executed!
Man! This guy sure sucked the system dry.
Are they sure he isn’t trying to break out? ;-)
The piece of crap should have been put down long before he ever killed that man in 1977.
He shot a cop in 1947, I would say that 63 years is enough time to put down a danger to the community like this. Or am I out of line?
I agree. With the financial meltdown, things need to change. We can’t afford to keep these people locked up for life. What’s it cost, about $30,000 to $40,000 per year per inmate. This is one of those unseen gov’t costs, like education, that is just too costly.
parsy, who thinks there should be a lot more executions and for a lot more things
The system worked!
If he hadnt died he would probably be 200 before they executed him.
Thats the problem with the death penalty. People are given it ,but it isnt carried out. There are 600 people on death row in California and 99% of them will die of natural causes.
How long does it take TEXAS....of all places, to carry out a death sentence? They can’t do it in 28 YEARS??
Actually, the average cost, per annum, to house and feed an inmate is well over $80,000.
OMG. And we lock up people for stealing a few grand. Then pay $80,000 to lock them up each year. How stupid.
parsy, who thinks we have to start using financial sense
63 years of lockup times $40,000 per
=
2.4 million dollars!!!!!!!!!!
Gee, I wonder what we, or any sensible country, could do with 2.4 million?
Something good for its citizens?
Or a turtle tunnel, on a highway where no crushed dead turtles are ever seen (as per FR post a week or so ago by someone who drives there everyday!)
Tens of years waiting on death row.
Isn’t this, of itself, kinda cruel and unusual punishment.
So there is no point in sentencing them is there?
(Not all this to you parsifal, etc., just had to type it all out quickly before my brain forgot).
Only took 28 years to carry out the sentence.
Wow I make less than half of that amount.
I understand. All these built in costs. And no financial reality. Of course, now I think it is too late. We are headed for a complete societal reorganization within a few years. I call it New America. I will be a poet and wandering balladeer. And probably a dirty old man, seducing women in town after town after melting their hearts with my poignant ballads.
Oh Su-—zanne takes you dow-ow-own to her place by the riv—ver. . .You can watch the ships go by....You can spend the night forever....
parsy, who is working on his barre chords
Sounds like a good cover for a Bible-legger.
Those fake harlots you "seduce" can take care of the local distribution. You'll know who they are by the red cords hanging in their windows.
Just make sure they have big piles of flax drying on their roofs, in case the local constabulary gets to nosey.
I even wrote my first song for New America. Working on my second one. Plus, just learned how to play and sing “Tangled Up In Blue”. Us wandering poets has got to know the classics, too.
parsy, who is working on “Squattin Over Wall Street”
re: your tagline, LOL!
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