[johnb838]

Grrrrr....

[Burkeman1]

This case will most likely be oberturned in days. The judge in this case should be impeached and removed from the bench- waste of everyone's time.

[cuz_it_aint_their_money]

You know......
If we just revoke Vermont's statehood, all their liberal B.S. wouldn't make any difference anyway.

Just a suggestion. :~D

[marshmallow]

Is he referring to abortion?

[DoughtyOne]

Insane. The courts provide the very protections this lunatic sites today. Impeach the bastard!

Thanks to idiots like him we have Charles Manson, Sirhan Sirhan, a number of Manson diciples and others in prison today, coming up for parole hearings ever few years.

[Huck]

It has no affect on state death penalties. Who cares?

[HELLRAISER II]

Roughly translated: There's going to be a lot of Vigilante's taking the law into their own hands, because justice will be the last thing accomplished if this takes precedence.

[Texas Mom]

We need to get a republican majority in the Senate to approve Bush's nominees

Right now with the Dems in charge we will just have more and more of the same ole same ole.

[Numbers Guy]

So, did the judge order that Timothy McVeigh be resurrected?

[chuknospam]

This is in regards to the Death Penalty for Federal Crimes i.e. OK City & McVeigh. Has no bearing on state executions. Feds don't often execute but with the terrorist situation, that could change.

[Iron Eagle]

This ruling only applies to the Federal Death Penalty. And, in this instance, it only applies to those being tried by that judge in that Federal District. (I don't know how many Federal District Court Judges sit in that District of Vermont, but if its more than one, none of the other trial court judges are bound by that judge.

The ruling has no application at all to any state death penalty, including vermont if it has one.

I have not read the opinion, and the story is pretty flimsy on analysis. Thus, I can't opine as to the legal rationale employed. In my opinion, however, there is no grounds that will hold-up upon review.

[Sloth]

Amendment V -- U.S. Constitution "...nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law..."

[spunkets]

""If the death penalty is to be part of our system of justice, due process of law and the fair trial guarantees of the Sixth Amendment require that standards and safeguards governing the kinds of evidence juries may consider must be rigorous, and constitutional rights and liberties scrupulously protected," he said. "

Amendment VI

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

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The judge is full of it.

[Chairman Fred]

"If [the death penalty] punishment is to be part of our system of justice, due process of law and the fair trial guarantees of the Sixth Amendment require that standards and safeguards governing the kinds of evidence juries may consider must be rigorous, and constitutional rights and liberties scrupulously protected," he said.

Isn't that what liberals really mean?

[goodieD]

oh for pete's sake! It takes 10 years usually to get anyone executed..these judges talk like you're sentenced to death one day, you get executed the next... If a person can't prove their innocence in 10 years, I'd consider that fair enough.

[veronica]

Oh yes, we must make the sure the rights of that animal who killed Samantha Reunion are protected. /sarcasm

[Tony in Hawaii]

Any relation to former FBI director William Sessions?

[fly_so_free]

So what does this "judge" think of people who delibrately, without due process of law, inflict the death penalty on the innocent. David Westerfield gave little 7 yr. old Danielle Van Dam the death penalty. Alejandro Avila gave 5 yr. old Samantha Runnion the death penalty. What does this "judge" make of the fact that in both of these cases, BEFORE the innocent little children were given the death penalty, they were tortured and abused by their executioners. What about the Constitutional rights of these children? Keep electing Demacrats America, this is what you get.

[TexasCajun]

Vermont!

This is where Liberals from Berkley go to live off their trust funds once they graduate.

What's next?

State sponsorship of NAMBLA!

[Bad~Rodeo]

Lemme guess, Democ(rat)?