Posted on 11/06/2017 4:43:20 PM PST by SMGFan
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday overturned a lower court ruling that an Alabama man convicted of killing a police officer in 1985 was no longer legally eligible to be executed because strokes wiped out his memory of committing the murder.
The nine justices ruled unanimously that Alabama can execute 67-year-old Vernon Madison, who has spent decades on death row. They said Supreme Court precedent had not established "that a prisoner is incompetent to be executed because of a failure to remember his commission of the crime."
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My Husband would answer yes knowing full well he is the one and only King in our castle, knowing that I depend on him being right 75% of the time.
Release him from 20k ft? Ok. Release because society couldn’t deal with him before stroke? No.
I think it should left up to the family of the victim as to how he is executed.
You have a good man.
Now, get on with it.
He has been punished enough — a stroke can be worse than death.
He has been punished enough — a stroke can be worse than death.
Hillary Clinton to the FBI, “I don’t recall”.
Time to fry her.
Kind of ironic - if the strokes messed him up that bad, it might be a relief to him if they did end it....those who think they’re savng him may be extending a personal hell....
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