U.S. Supreme Court Denies Arkansas Request to Begin Executions

[DonViejo]

Source: NBC News




APR 18 2017, 5:38 AM ET

by PHIL MCCAUSLAND

CUMMINS UNIT, Ark. — The United States Supreme Court rejected a request by the state of Arkansas early Tuesday to execute the first prisoner in a tight schedule of eight death sentences it planned to complete before the end of the month.

The decision was the culmination of a chaotic day of legal arguments, as Arkansas attempts to carry out its first executions in 12 years before its supply of lethal-injection drugs expires at the end of the month.

The high court gave no explanation for its ruling, but said it would not lift an order made by the Arkansas Supreme Court on Monday to stop the executions of two inmates set to be put to death that night. They were scheduled to be the first of eight people put to death in the space of 10 days.

The Supreme Court's decision came 10 minutes before the death warrant expired for one of these men, 56-year-old Don Davis.



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[DFW]

1. I have no sympathy for any of these killers

But state-sponsored ritual killing is not the answer.

If Hutchinson is that bloodthirsty, let him go join ISIS.

[aquamarina]

2. I completely agree with everything you said.

[jiminvegas]

4. While I am against the death penalty in almost all cases

I believe one of the inmates, Kenneth Williams, deserves to be executed. He was serving a life sentence for murder when he escaped and committed two more murders.

[christx30]

8. Another of them was angry because he didn't feel the cops did enough

to solve his wife's rape. So to get revenge on them. he raped a woman and strangled her with an electrical cable. And he beat the woman's daughter so severely she had skull fragments in her brain, but she was able to survive.
His misplaced anger cost an innocent woman her life. Robbed a young girl of her mother.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

5. If Hutchinson is that bloodthirsty... he must be running for president

That is actually what Gray Davis wanted to do in California, he thought he could ride the merciless pursuit of the death penalty all the way to the white house.

[DFW]

6. It didn't do him any good

Ken Lay and Cheney artificially caused an energy crisis and put Schwarzenegger in.

Fat lot of good it did them all in the long run, right?

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

7. Davis wasn't much of a loss

I cringed when I voted for him, I cringed when I voted against recalling him.

[DFW]

10. I understand

Davis was one of those "Can't we come up with somebody more suited for the job than THAT?" Democrats--rather distressing when one considers that California is a state not exactly devoid of Democratic talent.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

11. Everyone thought Feinstein was going to run

When she didn't the power brokers shifted their focus to Leon Panetta, who also declined to run. Even as Lieutenant Governor Gray Davis was road kill at the time and had burned most of his bridges, but he rose to the top when the vacuum began attracting eccentric millionaires.

My girlfriend at the time is as partisan a Democrat as has ever lived, but she voted for recall just because she hated the guy.

[DFW]

13. I remember a Democratic friend from California telling meat the time

"Better get used to it because Schwarzenegger is going to be our next governor."

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

15. Don't blame me, I voted for Gary Coleman

But yeah... we had made peace with that fact too. Well not my dad, he kicked a hole in the wall when Schwarzenegger was reelected.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. If the news about Aaron Hernandez today said anything....

....it's that having to live out a long, natural life in prison is a woefully sobering prospect that not all people can take.

Don't see what is accomplished by the death penalty that can't be accomplished by life in prison without parole.

[Bayard]

3. Dang, that's expediency!

How did they get this in front of the Supremes in a week's time?

[Dammit Jim]

9. Darn

They'll never catch Texas now!

[Txbluedog]

16. Funny story

I was talking to a well educated friend in Fayetteville and he was upset the Gorsuch would not give Arkansas permission to get rid of these bad seeds, he was under the impression that Neil Gorsuch is the entirety of SCOTUS now