Summary Box: Georgia Execution

[DeclinetoState]

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By The Associated Press – 5 hours ago

WHAT HAPPENED: William Earl Lynd, 53, was executed on Tuesday for kidnapping his live-in girlfriend, 26-year-old Ginger Moore, and fatally shooting her three times in the face and head nearly 20 years ago.

MORATORIUM'S STATUS: It was the first execution since the U.S. Supreme Court decided in September to review Kentucky inmates' claims that lethal injection is unconstitutional. The court ruled last month that Kentucky's method of executing inmates, also used by about three dozen other states, is constitutional.
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[Wolfcounsel]

Taking out the trash is the highest form of public service.

[DeclinetoState]

A bit off-topic, but not far:

By SHAILA DEWAN (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/d/shaila_dewan/index.html?inline=nyt-per)
Published: May 7, 2008

RALEIGH, N.C. — The release of the third death row inmate in six months in North Carolina last week is raising fresh questions about whether states are supplying capital-murder defendants with adequate counsel, even as an execution on Tuesday night in Georgia ended a seven-month national suspension.

In all three cases, North Carolina appeals courts found that evidence that would have favored the defendants was withheld from defense lawyers by prosecutors or investigators. In two of the cases, including that of Levon Jones, who was released on Friday after 14 years on death row, the courts said the defendants’ lawyers had failed to mount an adequate defense. Nationwide, Mr. Jones’s release was the sixth in a year.

John Holdridge, director of the A.C.L.U. Capital Punishment Project, which provided representation for Mr. Jones, said the successful appeals showed that the problem with the death penalty was not the method of execution — the issue ruled on by the Supreme Court last month — but instead “poor people getting lousy lawyers.”
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[Rhino]

A bit off-topic, but not far:How is it "not far"? Lynd wasn't eligible for release because there was no dispute of his guilt. He confesssed and even led police to where the body was buried. He also murdered another woman in Ohio with the same gun while he was on the run after the first murder. Sounds pretty far to me.

[DeclinetoState]

It's about the death penalty, and whether it should continue to be used. In the Georgia case, the concern was about whether it was cruel and unusual punishment go give the guy the needle: the Supremes said it was not. In the other cases, there is concern as to whether innocent people might be executed.

[Rhino]

But this guy wasn't maybe innocent, so I didn't see any relatively close connection between the two topics. I thought maybe that was where you were claiming they weren't too far off. And the Georgia case wasn't an issue of cruel and unusual punishment. Those were Kentucky cases.

[Incident_command]

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As Jack Napier said in the movie Batman, I'm glad you're dead.

[DeclinetoState]

But this guy wasn't maybe innocent, so I didn't see any relatively close connection between the two topics. I thought maybe that was where you were claiming they weren't too far off. And the Georgia case wasn't an issue of cruel and unusual punishment. Those were Kentucky cases.
Same method of execution involved, presumably.

In any case, where was Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson? If this fellow had been black trash instead of white trash, they would be all over the airwaves bitching about how blacks are far more likely to be put to death for killing whites than the other way around.

[DoctorDoom]

IMO, capital punishment SHOULD be cruel and unusual punishment, in keeping with the cruel and unusual behavior that led to the death(s) of the victim(s). Does it hurt when one is executed? Good! The more, the better. Let the son of a bitch suffer for as long as possible.

The bleeding-heart bullshit about making executions merciful and painless is another example of what happensd when we started paying attention to candy-assed liberals.

[DeclinetoState]

Giving the needle to a fellow who shot a woman in the face and head is NOT "an eye for an eye," either.

[Rhino]

Same method of execution involved, presumably.Ah! Okay. I didn't realize that was the connection you were making.

[Oldeshooter]

I hope this sick bastard suffered until he was dead. Scum like him don't deserve a painless death. May he enjoy the fires of hell for eternity.

[Pennville_Bill]

IMO, capital punishment SHOULD be cruel and unusual punishment, in keeping with the cruel and unusual behavior that led to the death(s) of the victim(s). Does it hurt when one is executed? Good! The more, the better. Let the son of a bitch suffer for as long as possible.

The bleeding-heart bullshit about making executions merciful and painless is another example of what happensd when we started pay attention to candy-assed liberals.


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