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alp227

(31,962 posts)
Wed Jul 16, 2014, 02:46 AM Jul 2014

Missouri execution on hold after late stay granted

Source: AP

BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri execution has been delayed until at least midday Wednesday after a federal judge granted a last-minute stay.

John Middleton was scheduled to die one minute after midnight Wednesday for killing three people in rural northern Missouri in 1995. Less than two hours before the execution, U.S. District Judge Catherine Perry granted a stay, ruling that there was enough evidence of mental illness that a hearing should be held.

Courts have established that executing the mentally ill is unconstitutional.

Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster appealed to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, but that court adjourned for the night without a ruling.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/missouri-appeals-stay-execution

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Judi Lynn

(160,219 posts)
1. The time will come when the US will turn away from the pleasure of legally killing people.
Wed Jul 16, 2014, 03:41 AM
Jul 2014

Someday we'll be civilized, too.

 

Hoppy

(3,595 posts)
5. -- ain't gonna happen.
Wed Jul 16, 2014, 07:02 AM
Jul 2014

Too many yahoos think this is a good idea and too many feckless politicians are afraid to cross the knuckledraggers. Besides, Jesus thinks executions are a good idea.

Maybe listen to Carlin. Put it on television and charge sponsors. "Why don't'ja light up with your Marlboro while you watch Charlie "light up."

or "Now's the time to hang one on with Jack Daniels while you watch us hang 'im high."

Or sell lottery tickets for if its gonna be a botched execution. Yes, or no. Right guesses split the pool. The state of Oklahoma or Ohio just skims off the top.

Nah, we ain't gonna give up executions.

catbyte

(34,174 posts)
3. I hope that states with the DP someday realize that it's not only an ineffective
Wed Jul 16, 2014, 04:13 AM
Jul 2014

"deterrent" and only imposed for some sort of revenge, but it's also economically unsupportable. It is so much more expensive for the state to impose the DP. The prisoner gets appeal after appeal after appeal and the cost to an already financially strapped judicial system is enormous. Hell, some prisoners sentenced to the DP die of old age before the sentence is even carried out.

A very dear friend of mine I knew for 20 years was brutally murdered in 2012. The two creeps were quickly apprehended, tried & convicted, sentenced to life without parole, the automatic sentence for first degree murder here in Michigan. I am ok with that. These pieces of crap will live long, miserable, dreary lives in Jackson State Prison and the only way they will leave is in a box. That might sound like an awful way for me to feel to some of you, but my friend was wonderful--one of the defense attorneys said this was a difficult case because my friend was "such a great guy" and he was BRUTALLY murdered. They don't deserve to live happy lives.

I don't hold out much hope that TX, OK, or FL will abolish the DP anytime soon, but perhaps more states will see the light and abolish it.

 

leftyohiolib

(5,917 posts)
6. so better to torture him?
Wed Jul 16, 2014, 08:14 AM
Jul 2014

"These pieces of crap will live long, miserable, dreary lives in Jackson State Prison and the only way they will leave is in a box. "

catbyte

(34,174 posts)
7. They made the decision to stab my friend 30 times with a "cylindrical object" and beat him to death.
Wed Jul 16, 2014, 08:32 AM
Jul 2014

One of the perps was a former student of my friend that he had helped many times over the years. Yes. He can rot away for the rest of his life. You can take your crap elsewhere. Let me know how you feel when one of your friends gets brutally, sadistically murdered and left to die in his basement. I really don't think that sort of brutality can be "rehabilitated." The perps were in their late 20's. They weren't kids.

 

leftyohiolib

(5,917 posts)
8. well im for the d.p. i dont think they should be allowed to sit in prison for the next 40 years
Wed Jul 16, 2014, 10:37 AM
Jul 2014

what life in prison does is allows killers, who have nthing left to lose, kill guards, spend hours pouring over law book looking for technicalities to get them back out on the streets to kill again, sue the state cause thier pudding was too warm. etc.

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