The US Executions / Death Row Thread

YingYang said:
This made me read up about how long these people are on death row for.

The current longest (excecuted) person in the US was Jack Alreman who served more than 33 years before being executed. Gary Alvord, another US convict was however on death row longer - 43 years - before he died from a brain tumor :wtf:

If it takes these people that long to determine whether the person committed the crime or not, they might as well not execute him at all.
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Its a balls up this imo. Allowed by years of tweaking laws based on social, moral and I don't know what other attributes. While the criminal who has taken lives with aggravated circumstances is chilling in jail on taxpayer money.

Fek that. Condemned should be handed to the victim families, or they should have the right to decide what will happen to him.
 
Garyvdh said:
FLORIDA EXECUTES DEATH-ROW INMATE, THIRD IN US IN 24 HOURS

Florida put to death a convicted double killer on Wednesday, the third execution in 24 hours in the United States, amid a raging controversy over lethal injection methods.

The flurry of executions brings a swift end to a seven-week hiatus in executions in the US following a botched procedure in Oklahoma that left a death-row prisoner writhing in agony before he died.

After getting clearance from the Supreme Court, Florida put to death John Henry, 63, who killed his wife and a five-year-old.

Henry, on death row for three decades, received a cocktail of medications and was declared dead at 0043 GMT, prisons spokeswoman Jessica Cary said.

He was the 23rd inmate executed this year in the United States, which allows individual US states to decide if they will use capital punishment, and implement it if they choose it.

On Tuesday and early Wednesday one execution was carried out in Georgia and another in Missouri. Both -- also by lethal injection -- came after last-minute appeals were rejected by the US Supreme Court.

In the first of them, Marcus Wellons, 58, convicted of the 1989 kidnapping, rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl, was put to death shortly before midnight in the southern state of Georgia, a spokesman for the prison system said.

In the second case, John Winfield, 43, convicted of killing two women, was executed in the central state of Missouri.

They were the first since the bungled April 29 execution in Oklahoma that provoked accusations of torture.

Clayton Lockett, a convicted killer and rapist, was put to death by lethal injection in a process that took 43 minutes, well over the usual time of a little over 10 minutes.

He was seen writhing in pain, bucking off the gurney and mumbling unintelligibly in a spectacle that drew widespread condemnation, even from President Barack Obama.

Obama, who backs the death penalty for heinous crimes, condemned the incident as "deeply troubling."

He ordered Attorney General Eric Holder, who is seeking the death penalty in the Boston Marathon bombings case, to conduct a policy review of how the death penalty is applied in the United States.


Source : Sapa-AFP /gm
Date : 19 Jun 2014 03:23
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Good news.
 
OKLAHOMA DEATH ROW INMATES SUE TO HALT EXECUTION

Two months after a botched execution in Oklahoma, 21 death row inmates in the southern US state filed suit Wednesday against prison authorities on procedures to put convicts to death.

Oklahoma suspended its executions for six months after the death of convicted killer and rapist Clayton Lockett by lethal injection in a process that took 43 minutes, well over the expected time of a little over 10 minutes.

He was seen writhing in pain in a spectacle that drew widespread condemnation, including from President Barack Obama.

The next execution in the state is set to take place on November 13.

Charles Warner, convicted of killing an 11-month-old baby, had been due to be executed two hours after Lockett and now heads the list of plaintiffs in a suit filed before a federal court in Oklahoma.

In their complaint, the prisoners underline a significant risk that Oklahoma authorities "will attempt to execute the plaintiffs using the same drugs and procedures used in the attempted execution of Clayton Lockett or with similarly untried, untested and unsound drugs and procedures."

They especially condemn the use of midazolam, an anesthetic "incapable of producing a state of unawareness that will be maintained after either of the other two pain-producing drugs, vecuronium bromide (or its substitute) and potassium chloride, is injected."

The US Food and Drug Administration also has not yet approved the use of midazolam as a stand-alone anesthetic.

The lawsuit protests the use of compounded drugs -- mixed by a compounding pharmacy -- in lethal injections.

States that practice the death penalty have relied increasingly on these compounding pharmacies, which lack federal approval, since European drugmakers refused to provide products used to execute inmates.

If they are executed with these drugs, the inmates argued that they will be "subjected to cruel and unusual punishment, in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution."

The FDA, the lawsuit noted, "does not verify the identity, purity, potency, quality, safety or effectiveness of compounded drugs."

According to preliminary autopsy results, staff in charge of Lockett's execution failed to administer the intravenous injection correctly and, after several failed attempts, punctured the femoral artery.


Source : Sapa-AFP /mm
Date : 26 Jun 2014 05:34
 
FLORIDA EXECUTES SEVENTH INMATE THIS YEAR

Florida put to death Thursday a man convicted of the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl, authorities said, the state's seventh execution this year.

Eddie Davis, 45, who spent 20 years on death row, was declared dead by lethal injection at 6:43 pm (2243 GMT), Florida prisons spokeswoman Jessica Cary told AFP.

His final appeals to the Supreme Court -- arguing the new drug protocol in Florida could subject him to unconstitutional suffering -- were rejected at the last minute, according to court documents.

Davis was sentenced to death for raping and suffocating to death in 1994 his ex-girlfriend's daughter. He had kidnapped the girl while she was sleeping in her mother's bed -- while her mother was working a night shift at a hospital.

He molested and raped her in the trailer where he lived nearby and suffocated her with a plastic bag before throwing her body in the trash.

Davis was the 24th inmate executed this year in the United States, where controversy over lethal injections was sparked after a botched execution in Oklahoma, in which the inmate took 43 minutes to die and during which he was seen to be writhing in pain.

This was also the second execution this month in Florida, which just changed its drug protocol for lethal injections. The state has put seven men to death this year, the same number as in Texas, which generally holds the US record for most executions.

Meanwhile, in Georgia, Tommy Waldrip, also scheduled to be put to death Thursday, had his sentence commuted to life in prison without parole.

Twenty-six hours before the execution, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles made the rare decision to grant clemency, after all of Waldrip's appeals had been exhausted.

Waldrip was convicted of the 1991 murder of a student who was supposed to testify in his son's trial for armed robbery.


Source : Sapa-AFP /kd
Date : 11 Jul 2014 01:47
 
Excellent news.

Ladies and gents, Eddie Davis davis_eddie.jpg

May he forever rot in hell for his ugly deed on earth.
 
so what is the actual purpose of capital punishment? if it's a determent, then it's not working to well in the US. if it's to act revenge on the perpetrator for his crimes, are we no better? shouldn't we be seeking a solution that makes people think twice about committing these heinous crimes?
 
crackersa said:
so what is the actual purpose of capital punishment? if it's a determent, then it's not working to well in the US. if it's to act revenge on the perpetrator for his crimes, are we no better? shouldn't we be seeking a solution that makes people think twice about committing these heinous crimes?
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Why does it have to be only one thing.
Why can't it serve multiple purposes?
 
crackersa said:
so what would those multiple purposes then be? I would rather get to the root cause and solve that.
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1. Incapacitation - Can't do any more crime.
2. Deterrence - Others won't try to do the same crime.
3. Restitution - "Eye for an Eye...."
4. Retribution - Society exacts retribution for attacks on its citizens.
5. Rehabilitation - Obviously not for the perpetrator, but actually for society itself.
 
Found this as well....

-it serves due justice (the punishment fits the crime), and serving due justice is the NO.1 job of a court of law (preventing crime is NOT their job).
-it shows that we are tough on crime
-it gets bang for the taxpayers buck
-criminals given the DP have a 0% recidivism rate
-It holds people responcible for the horrible content of their character. This fulfills what MLKJ always wanted: judge not by the color of your skin, but by the content of your character. The characterof these criminals warrants death
-It holds the criminal responcible for his actions
-appeals and **** aside, it's cheaper then prison
-it decreases the prison population, which saves even more taxpayers money
-Because the death penalty is the punishment given by a neutrel judge, there is no vengance in it. Therefore, there is no moral objection to be had with the death penalty.
-The death penalty defends human rights by establishing a mentality that "we will not tolerate any violation of any innocent person's human right's

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080219125254AARcgAk
 
Garyvdh said:
1. Incapacitation - Can't do any more crime.
2. Deterrence - Others won't try to do the same crime.
3. Restitution - "Eye for an Eye...."
4. Retribution - Society exacts retribution for attacks on its citizens.
5. Rehabilitation - Obviously not for the perpetrator, but actually for society itself.
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make sense except for deterrence..
 
crackersa said:
make sense except for deterrence..
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I'm sure it is not 100% deterrence, but a certain percentage only. People weigh up what they see to be the risks.
The government plays a massive role in that, cos if they don't follow through or police effectively, then deterrence is pointless.
 
Garyvdh said:
Found this as well....

-It holds people responcible for the horrible content of their character. This fulfills what MLKJ always wanted: judge not by the color of your skin, but by the content of your character. The characterof these criminals warrants death

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080219125254AARcgAk
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this bit is disgusting. MLKJ did not support capital punishment and for someone to construed his dream on racial equality to support capital punishment is just sick.
 
crackersa said:
this bit is disgusting. MLKJ did not support capital punishment and for someone to construed his dream on racial equality to support capital punishment is just sick.
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Ja, I agree with you. I dunno why they put that in there, it's not honest.
 
I never understood why Death Row lasts so long. Was reading up on Lawrence Bittaker a few days ago. He's been on death row since 1981. The guy is seriously evil, why not just get it over with.
 
crackersa said:
so what is the actual purpose of capital punishment? if it's a determent, then it's not working to well
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The only reason why it does not work as well as it could is because of human rights violations krap. Aaah, shame, let us give him 30 years to sit it out while there are countless appeals, blah blah.

Makes me sick.

Trial, conviction, immediate execution. That's how it should be.
 
Polish said:
I am not an expert on the matter, but is this not all legal fees ?

The execution itself, technical aspects of it, surely cant be much.
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Yes, the appeals process takes years and costs a fortune. That's why I said that in China, they can kill people cheaply. In the US, and anywhere else which wanted to follow do process, it would cost more than life imprisonment.
 
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