Tennessee Fucks Up

[Tigers!]

But it really truly needs to be without even the possibility of parole.

Why?

Some people cannot be rehabilitated, and it's reckless endangerment to release them.

Sure. But how can you know who those people are, at the time of sentencing?

Surely it makes more sense to repeatedly assess their suitability for release, and to parole them if (and only if) they display such suitability?

Provided you can be absolutely certain that the one desiring parole is not fooling everyone and just biding their time until being released.
As you correctly note futher down

Nobody is able to justly make such a claim

To deny in advance the possibility of parole is as (literally) prejudicial as to impose a mandatory sentence in legislation. It removes, from those qualified to make a judgement on a specific individual case, the right to exercise that judgement, and passes that right to some legislative body that cannot possibly have access to the facts, or to a court that cannot possibly know a given prisoner's future.

And yet we can point to circumstances where some were released who were manifestly unfit to be so treated. This is by the those who supposedly had the qualifications to make judgement.
Qualifications only mean you went to school longer, not that you know what you are doing or cannot be fooled.

To say "This person is currently a danger to society" may be reasonable, but to add "and always will remain so, until death" is not. It is a claim about a distant future. Nobody is able to justly make such claims.

And yet we need to prepare for the future. Easy to claim you are rehabilitated. I prefer proof rather than claims. That is the appropriate sceptical response.

 

[SLD]

There will be an automatic stay issued the moment he files a Habeas Corpus petition in federal court.

This isn't a federal court case, it's UCMJ.

That said, I think there's like one automatic appeal that occurs when the capital punishment is sentenced. I dunno. Needs more research.

No. His UCMJ appeals are done. He may file an HC now in federal court.

However, he may very well waive further appeals and let the execution go forward. He has always expressed a desire to be a martyr. This is his chance. And they could livestream it. Even better as far as he is concerned. They’re playing right into his hand.

 

[laughing dog]

But it really truly needs to be without even the possibility of parole.

Why?

Some people cannot be rehabilitated, and it's reckless endangerment to release them.

Sure. But how can you know who those people are, at the time of sentencing?

Surely it makes more sense to repeatedly assess their suitability for release, and to parole them if (and only if) they display such suitability?

Provided you can be absolutely certain that the one desiring parole is not fooling everyone and just biding their time until being released.

Taken literally, absolute certainty is an impossible standard for human behavior.

The standard for parole along with any of its conditions and the rigor in assessing suitability for release, the should be proportional to the severity of the crime.

 

[SLD]

So last night Florida executed someone who wanted to die. He had waived appeals. The man actually killed his cell mate in order to be executed so he wouldn’t spend decades more in prison. His last words? Nannh. I’m good.

Florida executes inmate who killed cellmate because he wanted death penalty

A Florida inmate who strangled his cellmate in the hopes of receiving the death penalty rather than spend his remaining years in prison was executed on Tuesday.

www.foxnews.com

 

[laughing dog]

So last night Florida executed someone who wanted to die. He had waived appeals. The man actually killed his cell mate in order to be executed so he wouldn’t spend decades more in prison. His last words? Nannh. I’m good.

Florida executes inmate who killed cellmate because he wanted death penalty

A Florida inmate who strangled his cellmate in the hopes of receiving the death penalty rather than spend his remaining years in prison was executed on Tuesday.

www.foxnews.com

If the goal of Florida’s penal system is punishment, refusal to execute this criminal would be stronger punishment.

 

[Elixir]

If the goal of Florida’s penal system is punishment, refusal to execute this criminal would be stronger punishment.

They should give him some defective rope to try to hang himself with. That would teach him a lesson he’d not soon forget!

 

[WAB]

If the goal of Florida’s penal system is punishment, refusal to execute this criminal would be stronger punishment.

They should give him some defective rope to try to hang himself with. That would teach him a lesson he’d not soon forget!

Here in Arizona, they'd make him pay for the rope.

 

[Tigers!]

So last night Florida executed someone who wanted to die. He had waived appeals. The man actually killed his cell mate in order to be executed so he wouldn’t spend decades more in prison. His last words? Nannh. I’m good.

Florida executes inmate who killed cellmate because he wanted death penalty

A Florida inmate who strangled his cellmate in the hopes of receiving the death penalty rather than spend his remaining years in prison was executed on Tuesday.

www.foxnews.com

Perhaps it should be relabelled euthanasia? He did want to end his life.

 

[Tigers!]

If the goal of Florida’s penal system is punishment, refusal to execute this criminal would be stronger punishment.

They should give him some defective rope to try to hang himself with. That would teach him a lesson he’d not soon forget!

Here in Arizona, they'd make him pay for the rope.

The Chinese send a bill for the bullet to the executed's family I am told.

 

[WAB]

If the goal of Florida’s penal system is punishment, refusal to execute this criminal would be stronger punishment.

They should give him some defective rope to try to hang himself with. That would teach him a lesson he’d not soon forget!

Here in Arizona, they'd make him pay for the rope.

The Chinese send a bill for the bullet to the executed's family I am told.

I suppose if it was the Chair they'd send the electric bill?

 

[Tigers!]

If the goal of Florida’s penal system is punishment, refusal to execute this criminal would be stronger punishment.

They should give him some defective rope to try to hang himself with. That would teach him a lesson he’d not soon forget!

Here in Arizona, they'd make him pay for the rope.

The Chinese send a bill for the bullet to the executed's family I am told.

I suppose if it was the Chair they'd send the electric bill?

Every electron costs money. Esp. if generated 'green'.

 

[bilby]

Every electron costs money. Esp. if generated 'green'.

Nobody generates electrons. We pay power companies to jiggle the electrons we already own.

 

[zorq]

So last night Florida executed someone who wanted to die. He had waived appeals. The man actually killed his cell mate in order to be executed so he wouldn’t spend decades more in prison. His last words? Nannh. I’m good.

Florida executes inmate who killed cellmate because he wanted death penalty

A Florida inmate who strangled his cellmate in the hopes of receiving the death penalty rather than spend his remaining years in prison was executed on Tuesday.

www.foxnews.com

We see here evidence that the existence of death penalty laws may actually increase overall unlawful behavior rather than deter it.