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Post by Californian on Mar 1, 2010 19:11:04 GMT -6
"Death at the hands of the state, whether by lethal injection or lethal imprisonment, is the death penalty." We knew it all along, guys.
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Post by Californian on Mar 1, 2010 7:48:31 GMT -6
George Clemenceau must have thought of you when he said: "America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization." Perhaps. Do yourself a favor, though. Don't p*ss us off. Ask your grandpa what happens when you do.
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Post by Californian on Feb 28, 2010 21:38:42 GMT -6
You sound like a real idiot. I can only hope that you partake heavily of the substances you bray about and die early and soon, so you are removed from the gene pool. That was way inappropriate. Dummy up, Kraut, or we roll the bombers again. Excellent! Hopefully, he hasn't reproduced yet. Bonus round!
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Post by Californian on Feb 28, 2010 14:39:17 GMT -6
You sound like a real idiot. I can only hope that you partake heavily of the substances you bray about and die early and soon, so you are removed from the gene pool. That's human trafficking, and it's totally different. Moving plant extracts from one location to another does not merit a death sentence, but it could be argued that kidnapping people to sell as slaves should be a capital crime. Most people that are guilty of "drug trafficking" are just trying to feed their family because they are poor and can't get a job and have no other option. People need to accept the fact that drugs are a part of our society now. If someone wants to pollute their body because they judge that it is appropriate, that is their *f---ing* decision and it makes me sick to see so many obsequious "moral do-gooders" wasting their time trying to stick people in jail for actions that are none of their god damn business!
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Post by Californian on Feb 28, 2010 10:08:19 GMT -6
Is he innocent or guilty? Someone please answer me: (groan!)
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Post by Californian on Feb 28, 2010 8:05:08 GMT -6
Official Summary
Sounds as if the legislator wants to water down the act.
11/3/2009--Introduced.Effective Death Penalty Appeals Act - Amends the federal judicial code to make federal habeas corpus relief available to a person sentenced to death if adjudication on the merits in state court proceedings of the claim cited in the writ application resulted in, or left in force, a death sentence imposed without consideration of newly discovered evidence which, in combination with the evidence presented at trial, demonstrates that the applicant is probably not guilty of the underlying offense. Allows presentation of such a claim in a second or successive habeas corpus application. Allows a second or successive court motion to vacate, set aside, or correct a death sentence based on such a claim.
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Post by Californian on Feb 27, 2010 20:34:40 GMT -6
Well, this one went to hell in a hurry, eh? ;D
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Post by Californian on Feb 20, 2010 12:35:59 GMT -6
HUMAN RIGHTS & WOMEN'S ISSUESSuspect in Cross-Border Femicide ("femicide?" ;D) Indicted A 37-year-old El Paso man has been indicted in a December 2007 murder case that spans the US-Mexico border. According to a January 28 criminal complaint filed by the Otero County District Attorney's Office in New Mexico District Court, Guillermo Ruiz killed 20-year-old Anabel Calzada Alvarado on Mescalero Apache tribal land in New Mexico last December 17 or 18, drove the victims' body across southern New Mexico to El Paso and then headed to Ciudad Juarez. Calzada’s two-year-old son allegedly was in the back seat of Ruiz’s vehicle during the murder flight. Once in Mexico, Ruiz went to a familiar area near the state prison on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez, where he dumped Calzada's body on a vacant lot and then set it afire, according to case documents. Tipped by residents, Mexican authorities discovered the smoldering body early on the morning of December 19 at the intersections of Francisco Villa and Sergio Dominguez streets in the January 6 neighborhood of Ciudad Juarez. At some point, Ruiz abandoned Calzada’s son to the cold of the night. "Crimes have in fact been committed in Mexico, Texas, New Mexico and the Mescalero Indian reservation," said Otero County District Attorney Scot Key in an interview with Frontera NorteSur. "Any crimes that occurred in Mexico pale in comparison to the murder and the kidnapping of the child." Because of the international nature of the Calzada crime, the New Mexico State Police, FBI, Ruidoso Police Department, Chihuahua State Attorney General's Office and El Paso Police Department were involved in different aspects of the investigation. The Calzada slaying reportedly happened in the vicinity of the Mescalero Apaches' popular gaming resort that draws many customers from El Paso and Ciudad Juarez in addition to southern New Mexico. Key said Ruiz has been indicted in New Mexico on an open charge of murder as well as on additional counts of false imprisonment, child abuse and evidence tampering. The murder suspect could face a capital murder trial, Key added. A one-million dollar bond, without the right to a 10 percent payment, has been established for Ruiz. The suspect is currently jailed in El Paso on an evidence tampering charge. Ruiz was arrested by El Paso police just days after Calzada’s murder for making a phony car-jacking report and burning his vehicle in an alleged attempt to get rid of incriminating evidence. Key said his office is now negotiating with El Paso officials to move Ruiz to New Mexico for prosecution. No court date for Ruiz has been set, the Otero County prosecutor said. Coming only one week before Christmas, the timing and brutality of the Calzada killing drew both widespread public attention and condemnation. Calzada’s son, two-year-old Bryan Alexis, was found by a woman who saw him wandering alone in downtown Ciudad Juarez early on the freezing morning of December 19. She turned the child over to members of the city's fire department. Key confirmed the two-year-old is now safely in the care of other family members. Ruiz confessed to the Calzada homicide to the El Paso Police Department detectives and Mexican officials after he was detained last month for making the false car-jacking report and trying to destroy his vehicle. Informed that he would be deported to Mexico for murder, Ruiz quickly told investigators that he had killed Calzada in New Mexico In a case affidavit, Carl Christiansen, an investigator for the New Mexico State Police and FBI, recounted Ruiz's story how the suspect killed Calzada in the US and got rid of her body in Mexico. According to the affidavit, Ruiz, first became acquainted with Calzada, a resident of Ruidoso, shortly before the murder. He later met up with the woman and her son at the Casino Apache Travel Center outside Ruidoso. Ruiz ended up stabbing the woman the woman to death after he became angered over a rejection of his sexual advances. Supposedly, Calzada's son stayed asleep in the back seat of Ruiz’s jeep as a struggle ensued between the suspect and the young New Mexican. According to Christiansen, Ruiz drove the victim's body to his mother's home in El Paso, parked the jeep in the drive-way, with the boy and his dead mother inside the vehicle, and then attempted to clean up any blood that might be on his body. In Christiansen’s account, the accused killer said he drove across the border to discard Calzada's body so blame "don't come back to me." On multiple occasions during the last 15 years, the burned bodies of other murdered women have been discovered in Ciudad Juarez. Calzada's physical profile was similar to many previous victims, and the initial Mexican press reports of her murder identified the victim as a teenager. In his affidavit, Christiansen stated that he later encountered physical evidence at the crime scene described by Ruiz. New Mexico law enforcement authorities now have a video-tape that shows Ruiz's vehicle in and around the Casino Apache Travel Center "on the dates and times concerned with the crime.” Calzada's Mexican voter identification card was recovered by police investigators from the spot where the knifing allegedly occurred. The weapon used to kill Calzada was later allegedly tossed along railroad tracks in Ciudad Juarez. "We've settled the murder scene. There was evidence at the murder scene consistent with what the defendant told us" Key said. "Had we not found the murder scene, (the investigation) would've been complicated." A former resident of Ciudad Juarez, Calzada moved to Ruidoso two years ago. At Calzada's funeral in Ciudad Juarez last month, relatives described the high school graduate as a peaceful, serious young woman who only wanted the best for her son and to get ahead in life. Additional sources: El Paso Times, December 24 and 26, 2007. Articles by Louie Gilot. El Diario de Juarez, December 19, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 2007. Articles by Armando Rodriguez and Gabriela Minjares, Nancy Gonzalez, J. Saucedo, and editorial staff. Lapolaka.com, December 19 and 24, 2007. Cimacnoticias.com, December 21, 2007. Article by Jonathan Padilla. www.nmsu.edu/~frontera/Jan-Dec07/hmrt.html
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Post by Californian on Feb 19, 2010 14:14:47 GMT -6
Nice piece of prose, Jesse. I gave ya 5 stars.
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Post by Californian on Feb 19, 2010 7:54:01 GMT -6
A better guess would be either a salivary gland infection or mumps. Graves disease? The thyroid is in the centerline. That swelling appears mostly one-sided and up the cheek, so the parotid salivary gland would be my guess. Hard to tell from a picture, though.
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Post by Californian on Feb 18, 2010 15:04:53 GMT -6
Maybe he was trying to mutate into Jabba the Hutt... His mutating days are over.
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Post by Californian on Feb 18, 2010 8:41:09 GMT -6
Is that from a goiter? Never sure what that is exactly. Probably not a goiter. They're almost unheard of in the U.S. because they occur from a lack of iodine, and salt is idiozed in the U.S. Goiters are also right in the centerline of the neck. A better guess would be either a salivary gland infection or mumps.
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Post by Californian on Feb 17, 2010 8:47:20 GMT -6
Why the hell should people that are about to be executed get ANY last meals? Did their VICTIMS get a last meal? Er, yes. Yes, Ben, they did. But let's note the rather unsubtle difference-they didn't know it was their last meal.
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Post by Californian on Feb 16, 2010 20:05:06 GMT -6
Felix: A lot of serial killers are sexual sadists. This is a psychosis, i.e., they are mentally ill. What would you say if I said despite being mentally ill, they especially should be executed, due to future dangerousness? A reasonable correlation might be that despite our love for our canine friends, we all understand that a rabid dog needs to be put down at once. I would concur with Phatkat and Brum who place that behaviour in the realm of personality disorder. And agree wholly with Phatkat that the therapies she indicates are the way forward PROVIDED they are motivated to enage in those therapies. Its a hot topic locally in the uK because the government last year changed the criteria of mental disorder to to include paedophilia and sexual sadism, thye claim its because opersonality disorder should not be a diagnosis of exclusion, but the truth is the jails are full and they are expecting us to use our locable facilities under the 1983 Mental Health Act to lock up people like this who are dangerous. I have locked up one already , he cut a 9 year olds throat during a sexually sadistic encounter, I did'nt want to lock him up because frankly he has never been psychotic, but the choice I had was dont lock him up, and when he does offend, as we all knew he would, I'd be in the dock explaining whjy i did not use the legislation the government so kindly provided me with. The guy does not have a treatable illness, but that no longer excludes you in the UK from having a mental disorder under the present legislation. To my mind a psychosis or serious treatable emntal illness will have elements of visual and or command voices, or beleifs about your internal organs and such that are not real. Now every bastard neurotic is fair game especially if they are dangerous. The SWAT team are becoming unemployed and frequently looking to folk like me to do what ought to be their job. Thanks. Apparently sexual sadism has been "downgraded" (if you will) from a psychosis to a personality disorder since last I cracked a DSM. Please read this link: www.serve.com/PHIHOM/articles/psexsad.htmWhat say you of my assertion that such people may be too dangerous to let live, i.e. the "rabid dog" theory?
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Post by Californian on Feb 16, 2010 17:33:02 GMT -6
Hasta la vista, sucker. Grossman put to death in wildlife officer's 1984 slaying
Updated: 1 min. ago STARKE - Martin Grossman was executed by lethal injection this evening for the 1984 slaying of state wildlife officer Peggy Park. Park was beaten and shot to death while on patrol in northern Pinellas County. The Vatican, Jewish leaders as far away as Israel, and thousands of petitioners called for a stop to the execution. But the Associated Press reported at 6:18 p.m. that the execution had taken place.
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Post by Californian on Feb 16, 2010 17:31:20 GMT -6
Even the frickin' scumpals think he's a loser! No protesters as Grossman faces execution in officer slaying
STARKE - Tonight, the Vatican, Jewish leaders as far away as Jerusalem, and thousands of petitioners are calling for a stop to the execution of convicted killer Martin Grossman. But as of 5 p.m., there wasn't a single protester standing outside the Florida State Prison, where Grossman was scheduled to die of lethal injection at 6 p.m. for beating and shooting to death Peggy Park, a state wildlife officer.[/size]
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Post by Californian on Feb 16, 2010 16:57:34 GMT -6
His Hebrew name is Michoel Yechiel ben Miriam Sorah. Who gives a shyt? AKA "the usual suspects."
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Post by Californian on Feb 16, 2010 10:03:24 GMT -6
"and he has since been reported to have changed." No shyt? Well, never mind, then.
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Post by Californian on Feb 16, 2010 8:43:10 GMT -6
What time are Florida executions, Erick?
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Post by Californian on Feb 15, 2010 23:17:47 GMT -6
Armed and dangerous! ;D
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Post by Californian on Feb 15, 2010 20:40:05 GMT -6
I predict flying tampons within the next three posts.
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Post by Californian on Feb 15, 2010 20:28:02 GMT -6
No, I had not forgotten what you say, but I would not class that as working with or getting to know them. You think they are sub-human. And no, I am not saying they are different than anybody else other than some of them have a ehck of a lot more to contend with than you appreciate and yes, when a person is seriously psychotic their personal respopnsibility can and will be diminished during those periods. You're would be too if you sufferred such instances. Please do not ever consider yourself as someone who works with the mentally ill, you have evidenced that you dont. Felix: A lot of serial killers are sexual sadists. This is a psychosis, i.e., they are mentally ill. What would you say if I said despite being mentally ill, they especially should be executed, due to future dangerousness? A reasonable correlation might be that despite our love for our canine friends, we all understand that a rabid dog needs to be put down at once.
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Post by Californian on Feb 15, 2010 15:24:05 GMT -6
My point, exactly. If a person is incapable of forming intent for their actions then the normal rule of law ceases to apply. No, I'm afraid not. Only the punishment differs. "Guilty but insane" usually means a murderer will be locked up longer in the loony bin that if he'd been sane.
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Post by Californian on Feb 15, 2010 13:07:35 GMT -6
If someone killed whilst labouring under a psychotic delusion then the killing IS justified. The killing is justified to that person, not our society of laws.
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Post by Californian on Feb 15, 2010 12:36:34 GMT -6
And the laws can't change because...? Because, generally, the courts don't allow it. You certainly didn't look very hard, then. And most sentences end. We can't keep everybody locked up forever. Except that every once in a while they find a judge who agrees with them. Quite a bit different. Occasionally, we do execute them. And the time spent awaiting execution is hardly the fault of the prosecution or the state, is it? You might note that executions proceed rather speedily for "volunteers."
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Post by Californian on Feb 15, 2010 11:55:23 GMT -6
That's where I more or less echo wonderwoman in arguing that the confinement offered by the DP is keeping people safe. Yes, but the confinement that DR inmates undergo can't be extended to general pop inmates, according to the courts. Solitary confinement is used as punishment only for them. California has an entire prison at Pelican Bay dedicated to those who can't behave themselves. No one is sentenced to Pelican Bay-you earn your way in. Yet various thughugger groups are always complaining and filing lawsuits about the "inhumane" conditions under which the inmates are confined, which are almost exactly those under which DR inmates undergo. Ergo, as with WW, your premise is false.
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Post by Californian on Feb 15, 2010 10:18:55 GMT -6
Or worse, a monster that should have NEVER been released is... Kenneth Mcduff, anyone??? Edmund Emil Kemper killed his grandparents at age 14, was sent away to juvie until he was 21, and subsequently killed 9 women in the Santa Cruz, California area.
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Post by Californian on Feb 15, 2010 10:15:04 GMT -6
Interesting that Grossman is a Jew. I'll bet they're quite rare on Death Row. (although the Rosenbergs spring to mind).
It also smacks of clannish interest and perhaps religious bigotry to me that so many Jewish organizations are lining up behind him. So he's a Jew. So what? He's a murderer. You'd think they'd be embarrassed about that and would want to get rid of him.
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Post by Californian on Feb 15, 2010 9:53:29 GMT -6
The problem, I think, with that argument is the evidence that makes it a silly assertion. *If* we can house them for 10 or 15 or 20 years before we kill them, without them killing, then they'd only be a danger if released. The thing is, we often can't. For instance, no court would put up with the type of confinement DR inmates are subjected to for an LWOPer. And it isn't like prisoners haven't escaped from DR. The Virginia prison break at Mecklenburg Correctional Center in 1984, when six DR inmates escaped? Let me point out that in California, being sentenced to death has become a de facto sentence of LWOP with solitary confinement until a natural death, and the thughugging crowd still bitches about it. Execution has finality-it's undeniable. No other sentences does.
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Post by Californian on Feb 14, 2010 21:12:29 GMT -6
I'm not sure where I read this, but doesn't Missouri's protocol call for the IV needles to be stuck into the executee's groin? I seriously doubt that. The antecubital fossa (the crook of the arm) is too easy to hit. They're not near the surface, either.
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