Comments on: Federal Appeals Court Halts Execution Of Florida Killer

By: Jane

Jane — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 09:50:55 +0000

So here we are…your tax dollars at work…supporting a murderer because he doesn’t realize what he did was wrong? Please…a six year old knows this is wrong!

By: mick

mick — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 18:22:08 +0000

Give us all a break, this scumbag kills 2 women, was convicted, lived off the taxpayers dime for twenty five years and now he must understand the nature and effect of the death penalty…nothing to understand, its time to die…the penalty for his convicted actions…those that get convicted and sentenced to the death penalty should get one year and then off you go to meet your maker…quit wasting time and money…

By: fred

fred — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 17:57:25 +0000

good point, JT. But, as zero hour approaches, the motions start flying to try to stall and put off the execution. This way, if the clock runs out, a new warrant has to be issued and signed by the governor. If we could stop the clock so that the existing warrant is still valid when the motion is adjudicated, then maybe this kind of foolishness stops because there will be no incentive to play these games.

when you get right down to it, who would argue that a serial killer is sane anyway (I say serial, because he killed two, and likely many more unsolved)? But, does he possess the mental ability to know right from wrong? Obviously he did, because he was convicted. The argument that he must now be sane enough to understand why he’s being executed is dubious to me. His understanding would be very temporary. Seems to me that it is more important for everyone else to understand why he was executed.

By: JT

JT — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 16:52:33 +0000

I guess 25 years wasn’t enough time to figure that out.

By: fred

fred — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 15:31:59 +0000

This looks like nothing more than “killing the clock” until the warrant expires. I suggest a change to toll the expiration of a warrant while such an appeal is adjudicated.