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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRick Scott admits delaying execution for fundraiser.
lorida Gov. Rick Scott (R) admitted in a debate against challenger Charlie Crist (D) that he delayed an execution to accommodate the political fundraising schedule of the Attorney General.
Here's the video:
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2014/10/21/scott_delayed_execution_for_fundraiser.html
gordianot
(15,238 posts)My opinion every State that has Capital Punishment the Governor should be physically present for the execution.
Kablooie
(18,634 posts)In the book and TV show "Game of Thrones" the Lord Ned Stark says to his sons:
"The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a mans life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die."
It's fiction but I always think of this when I hear of governors who play around with executions as if they were of no importance.
delete_bush
(1,712 posts)Just a few nights ago my wife mentioned something about the death penalty, to which I responded with something along the line of "if you're in favor of the state killing a person, then you should also be willing to be the one throwing the switch".
Embarrassingly bland compared to Stark, who adds dimension and makes the case far more eloquently. I plan on memorizing this for future use!
tclambert
(11,086 posts)The Lannisters killed the Targaryen children, and all the Reynes of Castamere, and they sort of won the Game of Thrones, though they also made themselves the most hated house in Westeros.
All right, I favor Ned Stark's view, also, and I still hate it that George R. R. Martin had him beheaded.
Kablooie
(18,634 posts)They are horrible but they win by cheating.
sammy750
(165 posts)Gov. R. Scott says he made mistakes and did fraud Medicare out of over a billion $. He took the fifth amendment at this trial, but still was charged with 14 felons. He is a multi million and never paid back one penny to the tax payers. Instead he moved from TX to Florida and won the Governor race the same year. This is the type of candidates the Republicans move around from state to state, hiding their past. Why do the voters of FL elect a 14 time felon, must be those senior moments in FL
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)handed me the win!
Man from Pickens
(1,713 posts)I know I've seen that look before
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)PADemD
(4,482 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)Always mumbling and barely enunciating his words.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)That guy is adorable. Rick Scott is one of the strangest looking people I've seen on television. More like this guy (who was apparently very nice).
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Sick...just plain sick.
mountain grammy
(26,621 posts)brentspeak
(18,290 posts)Egnever
(21,506 posts)Clearly he did it though.
Good lord what a fucked up thing to do.
alp227
(32,024 posts)but right wingers don't give a she-it if Rick Scott delayed an execution so the AG could party it up at a fundraiser? What a joke politics is.
ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)2naSalit
(86,612 posts)Sociopath.
Marr
(20,317 posts)He seems like some weird character that's escaped from a Stephen King book.
madville
(7,410 posts)Of moving it up sooner. Bought the condemned another month of time before his execution. The downside is the families had to wait through a third such delay in their quest for "justice".
Kind of a confusing topic to get outraged about, our side usually encourages delays and stays from governors in regard to executions. Is our argument that Bondi should have not attended the execution and it went ahead as scheduled or that she should have been there in the scheduled date and skipped her fundraiser?
It would have been a whole lot worse if they moved the execution date up instead of delaying it, they actually did the guy a favor in a way unless he was looking forward to getting it over with.
kcr
(15,317 posts)for such trivial reasons? It wasn't a stay for a chance for another appeal.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)used by the court in CA to declare the death penalty unconstitutional. The basic premise was that arbitrary delays, uncertainty and the long time to wait makes the DP cruel and unusual.
If a governor can delay for political fundraising, wholly apart from any justice, legal or fairness issue, that is cruel and unusual.
joshcryer
(62,270 posts)And it's cronyism, as Crist indicated, of a very high degree, showing moral character. If you're going to be for executing people (I'm against it), then you should take it seriously, not play around with it.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)Just hold a bunch of constant fundraisers.
When morals and ethics don't work, money will, apparently.
Blue Owl
(50,373 posts)Soon, I hope we'll be saying "Bye Gollum!"
Orsino
(37,428 posts)I can't see the video, but amswering these two questions would tell us how much per hour Scott's mercy costs. Perhaps if we gave him an allowance, he'd stop killing people.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Rocky888
(297 posts)These two are running neck and neck. Here in florida, there is an element that would vote for charles Manson if he had a (R) beside it. And most of these people are at poverty level, preaching their hate for all democrats that are out to take away their homes, bibles and guns. And these same people think minority groups are not intelligent enough to vote. I inherited a very modest home with property in north florida Bible Belt. Beautiful area, but the people are so brainwashed that they think it is a sin to ever vote for a minority or a democrat, while they collect their many "free intitlements" and accuse minorities of being "lazy freeloaders". My husband and I just shake our heads in total disgust and disappointment.
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)He's abusing some drugs, IMO.
EEO
(1,620 posts)Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)Scott's handlers are trying to keep him away from all media. I can see why. WOW - what a freakazoid.
genxlib
(5,526 posts)"He's pleading the fifth!"
Shoonra
(521 posts)It seems extra unfair to be scheduled for execution in an election year. Invariably, IF the Governor is or wants to be a candidate, he's has to look "tough" - i.e., not commute, nor even postpone, the execution - no matter what extenuating circumstances may exist.
In this instance, Scott extended what may be agonizing suspense for the prisoner, who was put to death anyway because, of course, the Gov and A-G had to look tough.
Rick Perry was, in 2012, and maybe will be, running for President and bragging that he's the Texecutioner. He omits mentioning the case of a man put to death for arson-murder on the basis of supposedly expert testimony that turned out to be completely backwards. He wouldn't even let that case be studied by a panel composed for the purpose of reviewing death sentence cases.