Bfgrn
New member
What's the matter 'punisher', the little woman shut you off tonight? Why don't you try the line you used when you met her: 'Nice TOOTH'
Do you approve of the death penalty?
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What's the matter 'punisher', the little woman shut you off tonight? Why don't you try the line you used when you met her: 'Nice TOOTH'
USFREEDOM911
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
What's the matter bitch.
You can't insult me, so you go for my family.
Gee, that's real Liberal of you.
By the way; that's no way to talk about your mother, son. :yermom:
Bfgrn
New member
What's the matter bitch.
You can't insult me, so you go for my family.
Gee, that's real Liberal of you.
By the way; that's no way to talk about your mother, son. :yermom:
Bitch? Sorry, punisher, I'm straight, but as a liberal I defend your right to be whatever your little heart desires. I don't want to insult you, I can't compete, you do too good a job of it...son
USFREEDOM911
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
I see that you've been lied to and are unaware that your behavior is what makes you a bitch and has nothing to do with sexual orientation.
But then; this has nothing to do with your need to insult someones family, only because you have nothing left to present.
Since you insulted my wife, your mother, you have made her sad and I now have to comfort her.
She said that she never liked you anyway; because you were always such a needy little brat.
Bfgrn
New member
Mom died in 1975. You may be hearing things. Have it checked out in the morning. Have the gas station attendant check your skull pressure. You may be low on air.
USFREEDOM911
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
I was talking about your NEW MOMMY; son.
Bfgrn
New member
I don't care how you dress, the answer is no. Try cruising the local McDonalds.
Zurt
Banned
In his final hours on death row, Cameron Todd Willingham and his attorneys tried frantically to show the governor of Texas a new scientific report proving his innocence. The evidence was apparently ignored, and Willingham was executed on February 17, 2004.
During his trial, he refused prosecutors' offer to give him life in prison instead of the death penalty. He told them he was innocent, and he wouldn't agree to any deals. As he was strapped down in the execution chamber, just before the lethal injection began, he proclaimed his innocence one last time.
An extraordinary new investigative report in the New Yorker shows that Willingham was telling the truth. He was innocent.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barry-scheck/innocent-but-executed_b_272327.html
During his trial, he refused prosecutors' offer to give him life in prison instead of the death penalty. He told them he was innocent, and he wouldn't agree to any deals. As he was strapped down in the execution chamber, just before the lethal injection began, he proclaimed his innocence one last time.
An extraordinary new investigative report in the New Yorker shows that Willingham was telling the truth. He was innocent.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barry-scheck/innocent-but-executed_b_272327.html
USFREEDOM911
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
Your NEW MOMMY says I dress quite well and it's not the local McDonalds.
Most friday nights, the local car restoration organizations cruise someplace that still has carhops.
It adds to the ambiance.
This doesn't change the fact that your OLD MOMMY said she never really liked you, because you were always so whiney.
USFREEDOM911
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
And when are the anti-death penalty proponents going to present their evidence and have the conviction overturned?
Zurt
Banned
It's a little late for that.
In 2010 the Innocence Project filed a lawsuit against the State of Texas, seeking a judgment of "official oppression."
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You might try using a search engine yourself once in a while.
Which court hears cases for people who were killed by the state in 2004?
signalmankenneth
Verified User
Death to the Death Penalty
Death to the Death Penalty
by Leonard Pitts Jr.
A few days ago, Anthony Graves called his mother and asked what she was cooking for dinner. She asked why he wanted to know. He said, "Because I'm coming home."
Maybe it sounds like an unremarkable exchange. But Anthony Graves had spent 18 years behind bars, 12on Death Row, for the 1992 murder of an entire family, including four children, in the Texas town of Somerville. It wasn't until that day, Oct. 27, that the district attorney's office finally accepted what he'd been saying two decades: He's innocent.
So the news that Graves would be home for dinner was the very antithesis of unremarkable. His mother, he told a news conference the next day, couldn't believe it. "I couldn't believe I was saying it," he added.
Graves' release came after his story appeared in Texas Monthly magazine (texasmonthly.com). The article by Pamela Colloff detailed how he was convicted even though no physical evidence tied him to the crime, even though he had no motive to kill six strangers, even though three witnesses testified he was home at the time of the slaughter.
The case against Graves rested entirely upon jailhouse denizens who claimed they'd heard him confess and upon one Robert Carter, who admitted committing the crime but initially blamed Graves. Carter, executed in 2000, recanted that claim repeatedly, most notably to District Attorney Charles Sebesta the day before Sebesta put him on the stand to testify against Graves. Defense attorneys say Sebesta never shared that exculpatory tidbit with them, even though required to do so.
Awful indifference
Colloff's story drew outraged media attention, including from yours truly. But the attention that mattered was that of the current DA, Bill Parham, who undertook his own investigation. He was unequivocal in explaining his decision to drop charges. ‘‘There's not a single thing that says Anthony Graves was involved in this case," he said. "There is nothing."
One hopes people who love the death penalty are taking note. So often, their arguments in favor of that barbarous frontier relic seem to take place in some alternate universe where cops never fabricate evidence and judges never make mistakes, where lawyers are never inept and witnesses never commit perjury. So often, they behave as if in this one critical endeavor, unlike in every other endeavor, human beings somehow get it right every time.
I would not have convicted Anthony Graves of a traffic violation on the sort of evidence Sebesta offered. Yet somehow, a jury in Texas convicted him of murder and sent him to die.
When you pin them on it, people who love the death penalty often retreat into sophistic nonsense. Don't end the death penalty, someone told me, just enact safeguards to ensure the innocent are never sentenced. Yeah, right. Show me the safeguard that guarantees perfection.
Stubborn and cruel
Those who propose to tinker with the death penalty until it is foolproof remind me of the addict attempting to negotiate with his addiction, desperately proffering minor concessions that will allow him to continue indulging in this thing that is killing him. But there comes a day when you simply have to kick the habit.
As a nation, we are stubbornly addicted to the death penalty, strung out on exacting retribution and calling it justice. Even though we know innocent men and women have surely died as a result.
Or, like Anthony Graves, been robbed of irreplaceable years. He was 26 when he was arrested. He is 45 now. When he made that call home to his mother, he borrowed his lawyer's cellphone.
The lawyer had to show him how to use it.
Death to the Death Penalty
by Leonard Pitts Jr.
A few days ago, Anthony Graves called his mother and asked what she was cooking for dinner. She asked why he wanted to know. He said, "Because I'm coming home."
Maybe it sounds like an unremarkable exchange. But Anthony Graves had spent 18 years behind bars, 12on Death Row, for the 1992 murder of an entire family, including four children, in the Texas town of Somerville. It wasn't until that day, Oct. 27, that the district attorney's office finally accepted what he'd been saying two decades: He's innocent.
So the news that Graves would be home for dinner was the very antithesis of unremarkable. His mother, he told a news conference the next day, couldn't believe it. "I couldn't believe I was saying it," he added.
Graves' release came after his story appeared in Texas Monthly magazine (texasmonthly.com). The article by Pamela Colloff detailed how he was convicted even though no physical evidence tied him to the crime, even though he had no motive to kill six strangers, even though three witnesses testified he was home at the time of the slaughter.
The case against Graves rested entirely upon jailhouse denizens who claimed they'd heard him confess and upon one Robert Carter, who admitted committing the crime but initially blamed Graves. Carter, executed in 2000, recanted that claim repeatedly, most notably to District Attorney Charles Sebesta the day before Sebesta put him on the stand to testify against Graves. Defense attorneys say Sebesta never shared that exculpatory tidbit with them, even though required to do so.
Awful indifference
Colloff's story drew outraged media attention, including from yours truly. But the attention that mattered was that of the current DA, Bill Parham, who undertook his own investigation. He was unequivocal in explaining his decision to drop charges. ‘‘There's not a single thing that says Anthony Graves was involved in this case," he said. "There is nothing."
One hopes people who love the death penalty are taking note. So often, their arguments in favor of that barbarous frontier relic seem to take place in some alternate universe where cops never fabricate evidence and judges never make mistakes, where lawyers are never inept and witnesses never commit perjury. So often, they behave as if in this one critical endeavor, unlike in every other endeavor, human beings somehow get it right every time.
I would not have convicted Anthony Graves of a traffic violation on the sort of evidence Sebesta offered. Yet somehow, a jury in Texas convicted him of murder and sent him to die.
When you pin them on it, people who love the death penalty often retreat into sophistic nonsense. Don't end the death penalty, someone told me, just enact safeguards to ensure the innocent are never sentenced. Yeah, right. Show me the safeguard that guarantees perfection.
Stubborn and cruel
Those who propose to tinker with the death penalty until it is foolproof remind me of the addict attempting to negotiate with his addiction, desperately proffering minor concessions that will allow him to continue indulging in this thing that is killing him. But there comes a day when you simply have to kick the habit.
As a nation, we are stubbornly addicted to the death penalty, strung out on exacting retribution and calling it justice. Even though we know innocent men and women have surely died as a result.
Or, like Anthony Graves, been robbed of irreplaceable years. He was 26 when he was arrested. He is 45 now. When he made that call home to his mother, he borrowed his lawyer's cellphone.
The lawyer had to show him how to use it.
USFREEDOM911
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
Why not bring it up to the Supreme Court.
Just think; if you could prove your point, you could probably put a stop to all death penalty cases across the nation.
Unless of course; you know that the suit would be bogus and would just make the presenters look even more ridiculous.
USFREEDOM911
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
I guess that would be up to the anti-death penalty side to figure out.
If the evidence is so overwhelming, it should be a cake walk.
wanderingbear
Radical liberal
Two wrongs don't make a right.Killing people is wrong for any reason.
