TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — A judge on Wednesday halted the execution of a man said to be suffering from dementia, who had been set to die by lethal injection in the federal government’s second execution after a 17-year hiatus.
Curses, that could set a presidential precedent for Fat Nixon…
Isn’t executing an inmate with dementia too much cruelty for a punishment - 8A?
Department of Injustice is showing its BeBest CRUELTY for pushing this execution in addition to NOT defending ACA before and during a pandemic!
No.
A similar case was heard last year. A man in Alabama was convicted of killing a police officer, and since then (it was a long legal history of getting the conviction) has suffered several strokes, can’t recite the alphabet, string together a sentence, is incontinent, etc…but more importantly has no memory of his crime.
SCOTUS sent it back to the AL Court, but not based on what you are asking. Indeed, Kagan wrote the opinion, and indicated that having no memory of the crime is no test at all. That dementia isn’t necessarily grounds for an execution to be cruel or unusual.
Our society is the one sick with dementia.
^^^^ This, a thousand times!
Why does the condemned have to understand why he is being executed? To make the retribution that much sweeter?
That is what has been held by courts in the past. It is hard to know what Federalist judges will do.
He sounds like GOP presidential timber to me!
The Nazis got rid of evidence at the end, too. Please tell me there are no children left in Trump’s concentration camps.