What provision does the honorable court make to secure VICTIMS' rights?
I mean, I would submit that offing a cold-blooded killer helps the greater good, by making sure this person victimizes no one else.
Only two people have been executed under the 1994 law, Tim McVeigh and Juan Garza. Which one is supposed to have been innocent?
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A judge may rule that the death penalty is "cruel and unusual punishment", although the methods of execution at the time those word were written were not ruled as such.
(Tx) Man Executed for Killing Two Girls
Posted on 09/24/2002 5:21 PM Pacific by Dallas
HOUSTON --
A man was executed by injection Tuesday for fatally stabbing two Houston-area girls in 1992 after they refused to turn down some loud music. Rex Mays, 42, was convicted of killing Kynara Carreiro, 7, and her 10-year-old friend, Kristin Wiley, at the Wiley home next door to his house.
"I'm ready to go," he said in his final statement. "I'm going to a better place. I'm just mad for one reason: I'm going to a better place, and y'all have to go through this hell on earth." Mays confessed to the crime, saying he used knife skills he learned as a Marine. Kynara was stabbed and slashed 23 times and Kristin at least 18.
Mays, who occasionally earned money performing as Uh-Oh the Clown and dressed as Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, killed the girls the same day he was fired from a low-level warehouse job. Mays told police he stopped outside the Wiley home, then followed the blaring music to a bedroom. Kristin refused his request to turn down the volume. "Here I had just gotten fired and some kid's telling me, 'No,'" he said in the confession. He went to the kitchen, the girls behind him telling him to leave.
"It was just like something came over me," he said, explaining how he grabbed a knife and turned toward the children, who screamed and ran to a bedroom. He followed and killed them, "still feeling badly about how my day had gone." Mays is the 800th prisoner executed since the U.S. Supreme Court in 1976 allowed capital punishment to resume. He is the 283rd overall in Texas, which leads the nation by far in executions. And we are quite proud of that!!!!
South Dakota: John Thune, current Congressman, (articulate, affable, attractive in an August debate with Johnson) running against Tim Johnson, current Senator.
John Thune for South Dakota
P.O. Box 516
Sioux Falls, SD 57101
New Jersey: Doug Forrester (bio: former assistant state treasurer, now small businessman and university instructor) is running against Senator Robert Torricelli, who got a reprimand from the Senate Ethics Committee and may be vulnerable. Forrester creamed the Torch in a recent debate, and he was ahead of Torricelli in the last poll.
Forrester 2002, Inc.
3535 Quakerbridge Road, Suite 400
Hamilton, NJ 08619
Minnesota: Norm Coleman, former mayor of St. Paul, running against Paul Wellstone, current Senator. Coleman was ahead in the last Zogby poll.
Link to www.colemanforsenate.com
Coleman for U.S. Senate
1410 Energy Park Dr, Ste. 11
St. Paul, MN 55108-9865
New Hampshire: U.S. Representative John Sununu, son of former Governor, defeated current Senator Bob Smith in the September 10th primary and faces current Democrat governor, Jean Shaneen, in the general election for Senator. Sununu has less than two months to knit the party back together for the general election to retain the seat against a tough opponent, who probably would have defeated Smith.
Team Sununu
PO Box 500
Rye, NH 03870
Missouri: Jim Talent, former Congressman from St. Louis, against current Senator Jean Carnahan (who was appointed when her dead husband narrowly "won" in 2000 election over John Ashcroft). There is talk that if Talent wins he may be allowed to take the seat immediately.
last Zogby poll: Talent 47%-46% Carnahan
Link to www.talentforsenate.com
Jim Talent for Senate
9433 Olive Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63132
Arkansas: Senator Tim Hutchinson challenged strongly by state attorney general Mark Pryor. Sen. Hutchinson, a former Baptist minister, is in trouble for reelection because of his divorce and remarriage after winning the Senate seat in 1996 on a platform of family values. He won his primary by 70% against another Christian conservative so the voters may be starting to forgive him, but he was down 10 points in an August poll. Without help, this is our most likely loss.
Hutchinson for Senate
PO Box 998
Rogers, AR 72756
Colorado: Current Senator, Wayne Allard, a veterinarian, is facing stiff competition from former U.S. Attorney and environmentalist, Tom Strickland. The Libertarian candidate, businessman Rick Stanley, may draw away enough votes from Allard to cause a loss.
Link to www.allardforsenate.com
US Senator Wayne Allard
300 W. Plaza Drive #100
Littleton, CO 80129
Georgia: U.S. Rep. Saxby Chambliss against current Senator Max Cleland.
Texas: State Attorney General John Cornynis running close in the polls to Democrat Ron Kirk, former mayor of Dallas. Current Senator Phil Graham is retiring.
John Cornyn for Senate, Inc.
P.O. Box 13026
Austin, Texas 78711
Iowa: U.S. Representative Greg Ganske is challenging current Senator Tom Harkin. Although he was behind in last poll, he may gain ground with the ad campaign in urban areas and the turning of the debate to Iraq.
Link to www.ganskeforsenate.org (Credit card donations are made via Pay Pal)
Ganske for Senate
1200 Grand Ave.
West Des Moines, IA 50265
West Virginia: Jay versus Jay. Jay Wolfe trying to unseat current Senator Jay Rockefeller, using the same stealth grassroots tactics that won the state for George W. Bush. This one is under the radar, so you won't see any polls.
Friends of Jay Wolfe
P.O. Box 364
Salem, WV 26426