WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge said the Justice Department unlawfully rescheduled the execution of the only woman on federal death row, potentially setting up the Trump administration to schedule the execution after President-elect Joe Biden takes office.
Be careful what you wish for Trump Administration.
If we start executing mentally ill murderers…
Just Sayin’
330,000 DEAD
A Sharpie executive order will fix that problem pronto.
As soon as they can find Fat Nixon on the golf course.
Does the Biden reference to “Day One” begin at noon on the 20th, or on the 21st?
I’ll know if he has a pen in hand while he swears his oath…
So much to do…
If she was male and had been working in Iraq with Eric Prince’s company and when she committed this murder, she would have been pardoned and freed last week.
This is Donald Trump,no mob boss is he.
The difference between ‘what we say’ and ‘what we do’ continues to make me sick. No a single ethic, moral or value among them…just a rush to play God.
A gruesome murder by a clearly deeply mentally ill person, given the massive abuse she suffered early on. But even if she’d acted out of pure and willful evil, I don’t believe that anyone should be executed, other than first order perpetrators of state-sponsored genocide, e.g. Eichmann, Milosevic, Hussein, bigly strong cough cough…
Hopefully this gets rescheduled for after noon on 1/20/21 and Biden immediately commutes her and everyone else’s sentence on death row to life in prison, and issues an EO rescinding the death penalty for all federal cases and asks congress to pass legislation banning it at the state level (if that’s constitutional, which I think the 8th amendment says yes).
Sounds like she lives. Not so much Trumpski’s COVID-19 victims. Any available rooms filled. Beds in the halls. Gurneys in the gift shop.
For your own sanity don’t read the YouTube comments.
Serendipity: I just happened to see, last night, an older SNL skit with Jason Sudekis as the Devil on Weekend Update and he took credit for inventing the internet. When pressed, he said, “Well, not the entire internet, just parts. Like comments sections.”
Murder?
Try more deaths than WWII American combat deaths. Totaling figures for years of combat.
Amassed due to the actions of Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump.
2020’s been an historically low year for state executions. Well, in most of them…in all but one, actually. Care to guess which one coughgregabbottcoughcough?
As we Americans are inventive, we have made up for the dearth of executions in other ways.
Until this week, very few people knew Lisa Montgomery’s name or could tell you who she is. If Biden commutes her death sentence, every right wing media watcher will know her name by heart and will know it for the next 4 years. Most will believe Joe picked her to be the Secretary of something after releasing her from prison and handing her a check.
OT. I had wondered about this after observing a number of small carcasses in my neighborhood.
I don’t know how often I’ve read that a person who’s committed a grisly murder was horribly abused as a child. They never had a chance. You’d think a decent society could have just a moment’s pity for the child. People talk about life imprisonment as if it’s this easy existence, three meals and a bed, all that garbage, but they wouldn’t want it for themselves somehow. Once the murderer is confined, society is safe. Their death deters nobody. Just a bit of pity for the child.
I was just reading a little bit about the case. This woman suffered a lifetime of absolutely horrid abuse and was clearly mentally ill. Maybe not enough to sustain an insanity defense but she was certainly sick enough that it should’ve been a mitigating factor in sentencing and she should’ve been given a life sentence as opposed to the death penalty.
Trump is a sadist. Thus it stands to reason that he and Barr (also a cruel man) would cook up this 11th Hour action…the spate of executions.
Trump also gets another chance at outraging the people he hates.**
** Hates more
Geez, you really wanna take all the fun outta being pro-life, doncha?