Registered: Aug 2000
Location: In a Blue, Blue State
Posts: 12544

From a story about the US Supreme Court examining some death penalty cases: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...death_penalty_3

The justices have already blocked the scheduled execution of David Larry Nelson, who was set to die by lethal injection in October.

Nelson was sentenced to death for the shooting death of Wilson Thompson, a man Nelson discovered with Nelson's girlfriend. Nelson was also convicted in the shooting death of a Birmingham cab driver the night before.

In Nelson's appeal to the Supreme Court, Atlanta attorney Michael Kennedy McIntyre told justices that authorities had told his client they might have to cut through skin, tissue, fat and muscle to get to a vein.

"A cut-down procedure is an invasive and barbaric medical procedure which does not comport with the contemporary practice of medical care," he wrote.

He said it would have been the first instance of Alabama performing such a medical procedure before an execution, and that there were insufficient safeguards to protect his health.

Safeguards to protect his health while they are doing a procedure to execute him? The 9th Circut Court of Appeals has to have a hand in this somewhere.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Minneapolis, MN
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it's just embarassingly retarded that crap like this sees the light of day, and alot of it does.

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Registered: Aug 2001
Location: is futile
Posts: 4983

Heh... The road to hell is paved with lawsuits

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Registered: Jan 2001
Location: library
Posts: 19562

The road to heaven must be paved with lawyers skulls.

-m

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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Boston
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How about they do it the old fashioned way? Line up the guards and have them all shoot him. Except instead of giving just one of them bullets so they do not know who killed him, give them all bullets just to make sure he dies.

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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Boston
Posts: 6561

OR hang him! Lynch the muthafucka!

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