Dark Shadow over US Death Chambers

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Chilling Testimony Of Death Row Executioners Casts Dark Shadow Over Entire System - Mic

Chilling Testimony Of Death Row Executioners Casts Dark Shadow Over Entire System
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At some point for Fred Allen, something snapped. He’d done one too many. He broke.
Years had gone by, but he could still picture the eyes of every inmate he'd helped tie down, restrain with multiple straps so that the execution team could slide needles into his veins, enabling deadly chemicals to surge through his body.
The chilling Sound Portraits radio documentary from 2000, "Witness to an Execution," won a Peabody Award that year, and there is no question why. It's unnerving, eye-opening, and massively instrumental in illustrating the process, the nuances, and the anatomy of an execution — something we're far too unfamiliar with.

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Reflecting back on that case, Hammel said, "[This] kind of thing happens only in Texas. … There are no public defenders, no money, no experienced death penalty lawyers."

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Baaah!
There oughta be a law!

Yes, a dark shadow hangs over the nation's death chambers and the premeditated, cold-blooded killing of human beings in them.

There are now 900 on death row in California...gee the dark shadow will be a black moonless night when they start execution-homiciding the 900.

 

[HenryBHough]

Chilling Testimony Of Death Row Executioners Casts Dark Shadow Over Entire System - Mic

Chilling Testimony Of Death Row Executioners Casts Dark Shadow Over Entire System
Image Credit: AP

At some point for Fred Allen, something snapped. He’d done one too many. He broke.
Years had gone by, but he could still picture the eyes of every inmate he'd helped tie down, restrain with multiple straps so that the execution team could slide needles into his veins, enabling deadly chemicals to surge through his body.
The chilling Sound Portraits radio documentary from 2000, "Witness to an Execution," won a Peabody Award that year, and there is no question why. It's unnerving, eye-opening, and massively instrumental in illustrating the process, the nuances, and the anatomy of an execution — something we're far too unfamiliar with.

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Reflecting back on that case, Hammel said, "[This] kind of thing happens only in Texas. … There are no public defenders, no money, no experienced death penalty lawyers."

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Baaah!
There oughta be a law!

Yes, a dark shadow hangs over the nation's death chambers and the premeditated, cold-blooded killing of human beings in them.

There are now 900 on death row in California...gee the dark shadow will be a black moonless night when they start execution-homiciding the 900.

900! Imagine that. More than enough to contract the work out to ISIS which would do the job more quickly and at much less cost to California's already overtaxed legal residents.

 

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Chilling Testimony Of Death Row Executioners Casts Dark Shadow Over Entire System - Mic

Chilling Testimony Of Death Row Executioners Casts Dark Shadow Over Entire System
Image Credit: AP

At some point for Fred Allen, something snapped. He’d done one too many. He broke.
Years had gone by, but he could still picture the eyes of every inmate he'd helped tie down, restrain with multiple straps so that the execution team could slide needles into his veins, enabling deadly chemicals to surge through his body.
The chilling Sound Portraits radio documentary from 2000, "Witness to an Execution," won a Peabody Award that year, and there is no question why. It's unnerving, eye-opening, and massively instrumental in illustrating the process, the nuances, and the anatomy of an execution — something we're far too unfamiliar with.

____________________

Reflecting back on that case, Hammel said, "[This] kind of thing happens only in Texas. … There are no public defenders, no money, no experienced death penalty lawyers."

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Baaah!
There oughta be a law!

Yes, a dark shadow hangs over the nation's death chambers and the premeditated, cold-blooded killing of human beings in them.

There are now 900 on death row in California...gee the dark shadow will be a black moonless night when they start execution-homiciding the 900.

900! Imagine that. More than enough to contract the work out to ISIS which would do the job more quickly and at much less cost to California's already overtaxed legal residents.

And true to the manifesto of ISIS/IS all the innocent inmates on death row would be slaughtered as well.

Not so long ago there were 700 on death row in CA...now there are 900.

 

[HenryBHough]

And true to the manifesto of ISIS/IS all the innocent inmates on death row would be slaughtered as well.

Not so long ago there were 700 on death row in CA...now there are 900.

Damn!

They reproduce like rats!

 

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The dirty little secret is that the radical left wants the death penalty for only certain people. Nobody mourned when McVeigh was captured, tried, sentenced and executed in a record 7 years. It didn't bother anyone that Nazi war criminals were executed in often botched hangings. Is it more merciful to keep a person caged up for his entire life or to be executed in the easiest way possible which gives closure to the families of his victims?

 

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And true to the manifesto of ISIS/IS all the innocent inmates on death row would be slaughtered as well.

Not so long ago there were 700 on death row in CA...now there are 900.

Damn!

They reproduce like rats!

The dirty little secret is that the radical left wants the death penalty for only certain people. Nobody mourned when McVeigh was captured, tried, sentenced and executed in a record 7 years. It didn't bother anyone that Nazi war criminals were executed in often botched hangings. Is it more merciful to keep a person caged up for his entire life or to be executed in the easiest way possible which gives closure to the families of his victims?

It's more merciful to keep the convicteds alive...and in prison for their entire lives...a woman was execution-homicided in America recently.
They could be innocent.
Innocent people have been released from death row.
But...how many innocents have been 'dragged' from their cells to the death chambers and tortured to death in electric chairs, gas chambers etc?

 

[Crystalclear]

Chilling Testimony Of Death Row Executioners Casts Dark Shadow Over Entire System - Mic

Chilling Testimony Of Death Row Executioners Casts Dark Shadow Over Entire System
Image Credit: AP

At some point for Fred Allen, something snapped. He’d done one too many. He broke.
Years had gone by, but he could still picture the eyes of every inmate he'd helped tie down, restrain with multiple straps so that the execution team could slide needles into his veins, enabling deadly chemicals to surge through his body.
The chilling Sound Portraits radio documentary from 2000, "Witness to an Execution," won a Peabody Award that year, and there is no question why. It's unnerving, eye-opening, and massively instrumental in illustrating the process, the nuances, and the anatomy of an execution — something we're far too unfamiliar with.

____________________

Reflecting back on that case, Hammel said, "[This] kind of thing happens only in Texas. … There are no public defenders, no money, no experienced death penalty lawyers."

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Baaah!
There oughta be a law!

Yes, a dark shadow hangs over the nation's death chambers and the premeditated, cold-blooded killing of human beings in them.

There are now 900 on death row in California...gee the dark shadow will be a black moonless night when they start execution-homiciding the 900.

A black moonless night? Those murderers and rapists just get the punishment they deserve.

 

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A black moonless night? Those murderers and rapists just get the punishment they deserve.

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In a civilised society they deserve to be confined to a prison for life - no parole.
Also, there's the question of the innocent ones on death row.
Just because people are convicted doesn't mean they're guilty;

The Innocence Project - Home

Texas Exoneree Says Hold Prosecutors Accountable

Michael Morton has written an op-ed for Dallas Morning News in response to new allegations of prosecutorial misconduct that likely caused Texas to wrongly execute Cameron Todd Willingham.
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The Innocence Project - Understand the Causes Forensic Science Misconduct

Government Misconduct
Some wrongful convictions are caused by honest mistakes. But in far too many cases, the very people who are responsible for ensuring truth and justice — law enforcement officials and prosecutors — lose sight of these obligations and instead focus solely on securing convictions.
The cases of wrongful convictions uncovered by DNA testing are filled with evidence of negligence, fraud or misconduct by prosecutors or police departments

 

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The Innocence Project - Understand the Causes Forensic Science Misconduct

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A black moonless night indeed.

 

[Crystalclear]

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In a civilised society they deserve to be confined to a prison for life - no parole.
Also, there's the question of the innocent ones on death row.
Just because people are convicted doesn't mean they're guilty;

The Innocence Project - Home

Texas Exoneree Says Hold Prosecutors Accountable

Michael Morton has written an op-ed for Dallas Morning News in response to new allegations of prosecutorial misconduct that likely caused Texas to wrongly execute Cameron Todd Willingham.
MORE

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The Innocence Project - Understand the Causes Forensic Science Misconduct

Government Misconduct
Some wrongful convictions are caused by honest mistakes. But in far too many cases, the very people who are responsible for ensuring truth and justice — law enforcement officials and prosecutors — lose sight of these obligations and instead focus solely on securing convictions.
The cases of wrongful convictions uncovered by DNA testing are filled with evidence of negligence, fraud or misconduct by prosecutors or police departments

It's terrible to be innocent on death row, but being your entire life in prison without parole is also bad and it is easier to be found innocent on death row (because of all the trials) than with a life in prison- especially without parole.

 

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Rapists are not sentenced to life without parole?
Google "False rape allegations".

The crimes of the guilty who are on death row are terrible...life in prison without parole must be their sentence instead of execution-homiciding by the state.
At least if the innocent are alive there can be hope that they'll see freedom again.

The Innocence Project - Know the Cases Browse Profiles David Camm

David Camm
Incident Date: 9/28/00 Jurisdiction: IN Charge: murder (3 counts), conspiracy to commit murder Conviction: murder (3 counts) Sentence: Life without parole	Year of Conviction: 2002, 2006 Exoneration Date: 10/24/13 Sentence Served: Real perpetrator found? Yes Contributing Causes: Informants, Unvalidated or Improper Forensic Science Compensation? Not Yet

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