"Federal judge rules California death penalty is unconstitutional"

[bobabode]

News from an Orange county, Ca. federal judge appointed by Gee Dubya.


http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...716-story.html

[finnbow]

It's only a matter of time before we get rid of it, once and for all. Of course, the southern states will be dragged kicking and screaming.

[bobabode]

Barbarism, state sanctioned or otherwise is barbarism.

[CarlV]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Racism, state sanctioned or otherwise is racism.

Fixed.

Yes, our system here is so messed up it really should be declared unconstitutional. But as I remember there has always been a 65% approval of the death penalty itself here in California. So we will have something to please the politicians wanting reelection, until it gets dealt with on a federal level. Maybe trigger happy Texas will be next.



Carl

[one1]

the legal system as a whole is unconstitutional,it only serves those with political and financial ties.I have to abide by it but I do not recognize it.Does that make any since?I have had a few heiniken's Amsterdam edition

[Ike Bana]

Seems to me the decision is more about the mishandling of the process and disregard for the law in California, as opposed to a broad and general "cruel and unusual" statement about the death penalty.

And I get way, way too emotional about certain really abominable cases to be comfortable discarding the death penalty completely. I just want certain perps dead...right away too, like they do in China. I even want some of them to go down in the identical way they took down their victim or victims. There was one guy in particular here in Chicago...it was decades ago. He drowned a little girl in a mud puddle. I remember so much wanting to have my hand on the back of his head and his face in the gutter in front of our apartment. But I'm pretty sure he went to the chair at the time.

I remember going to an investor's dinner thrown by the company we were using to manage our portfolio back in early October 2008, just after the meltdown. The keynote speaker was a woman named Quincy Krosby, who was with the Hartford at the time. She's pretty well know in banking and investment circles. Sharp, feisty, plain talking, and tough. Straight out of Brooklyn or the Bronx, I suspect. We got great advice and wouldn't have done near as well as we did without it.

Anyway, I remember her saying, without hesitation, "If this had happened in China, the next day the CEO's of the investment banks would have been taken out behind their offices and shot." A spontaneous cheer went up from the assembled group of investors therein.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by finnbow

It's only a matter of time before we get rid of it, once and for all. Of course, the southern states will be dragged kicking and screaming.

I want to keep it.

I have plenty of baggers in mind that I feel deserve it.

[piece-itpete]

The way this is coming off completely vindicates the anti death penalty groups methods.

Pete