Let us suppose that Glossip had never been charged and it was Sneed who was now facing execution. Do you think that these very same people wouldn’t be out there protesting and trying to have his execution halted?
The court has stayed his execution for two weeks so that they can examine the alleged new evidence in light of the late date this appeal was filed. That decision makes no judgment on whether there is any validity to the evidence or whether there exists a possibility that he was wrongly convicted.
I don’t understand why criminals, if they must be executed, must go through all the circus like excitement and public viewing of the event. In states with doctor assisted suicides, a patient is given a pill, they take it and peacefully slip off to sleep, never to wake up. In an execution, they have untrained medical staff botching up simple procedures, causing needless pain and suffering, and they call it justice.
I don’t know – there are lots of executions that don’t make big news like this one did. I wouldn’t care nearly as much if it was Sneed. I don’t have a moral problem with executing guilty people – just with the chance, however small, of executing innocent people.
It makes some sort of judgment on the “new evidence”, even if it’s not definitive. They wouldn’t stop (and haven’t stopped) an execution for any and every claim of new evidence.
No that is not the case. They could simply feel that they didn’t have time to look over the evidence before the execution. No judgement at all about it’s validity.
From the link above, it’s not clear whether the letter from Sneed’s daughter was authored by her or by the activists who circulated it. But no difference anyway - she has had very little contact with her father over the years and her position means little to nothing.
I didn’t say “validity” – stopping the execution is a decision based on something, and that something is related to the new evidence. And when, in the past, courts have refused to stop executions based on claims of new evidence, they were also making a decision based on something related to the claims of new evidence. So I trust that the judgment of the courts has something to do with the new evidence being claimed.
Hell, sign me up as one of those people. Until we have absolute proof that someone is guilty and deserving of death, I’m against the absoluteness, the finality, of killing someone. You may think that the risk of putting an innocent person to death is acceptable, but I bet you’d change your mind if *you *were that person.
All executions are wrong, and should be halted, exactly because of cases like this.
It’s always so cute when menstruating liberals throw insane temper tantrums over murderers being put down like the dogs that they are, while arguing endlessly that the mass killing of fetuses is a just and noble cause. Your fainting couch is on the right.
If we were talking about James Holmes, I’d pull the switch. But Glossip was an idiot talking to the dimwitted cops in the first place without a lawyer. I MAY consider that he tried to help out his friend/co-worker after he found out by delaying the discovery of the crime, but it’s not death penalty worthy.
Do you even read what you quote? Your response has nothing to do with it.
To recap: we’re complaining about putting someone to death WHO DIDN’T murder someone. The killer already confessed. How do aborted babies factor into this?
I’ll also point out that 1)I’m not exactly liberal and 2)me being male makes menstruation impossible.
Paying someone else to commit a murder is the same as pulling the trigger. Worse, in fact, since without him, the crime never occurs in the first place.
Which the justice system has provided, in that he was put on trial and found guilty.
The risk of putting an innocent person to death is slim to nil.
Abortion is noble if it allows the mother to have a better life.
The death penalty isn’t noble. Especially where there are questions of guilt. I hope you don’t live in Texas Bosb, because they execute the mentally challenged there.
I don’t believe you. You are incapable of objectively evaluating anything related to the justice system due to the extreme trauma that you have suffered and apparently the permanent damage to your psyche it has caused.
Yeah. We’ve done that before. It was only a few innocents. Who cares about the wrongly executed person and their friends and families anyway? That’s just a few persons’ feelings. Doesn’t matter. We’ll execute another innocent one soon. We don’t know them personally. Nothing to see, move along.
