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WhiteTara

(29,704 posts) Tue Mar 22, 2016, 08:00 PM Mar 2016

High court refuses to spare Texas man hours before execution

Source: ap

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from a Texas man whose attorneys wanted a high court ban on executing mentally impaired prisoners extended to him so he could be spared from a lethal injection.

The justices, without comment, refused to block Adam Ward's lethal injection about two hours before it was scheduled to be carried out. Ward, 33, was convicted of the 2005 killing of a worker who was on his property looking for city code violations.

His execution would be the fifth this year in Texas and the ninth nationally.

Ward's attorneys said he was delusional. He insists he was defending himself when he killed 44-year-old Michael Walker, who was taking photos of junk piled outside the Ward family home in Commerce, about 65 miles northeast of Dallas.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/high-court-weighs-whether-spare-texas-man-execution-054119076.html

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High court refuses to spare Texas man hours before execution (Original Post) WhiteTara Mar 2016 OP

Cruel and unusual. mahannah Mar 2016 #1

Will we never learn? farleftlib Mar 2016 #2

Unfortunately Uponthegears Mar 2016 #3

And we have the gall to tell Cuba to be better on human rights. LS_Editor Mar 2016 #4

You said it! mountain grammy Mar 2016 #6

It's not terrorism when we do it overseas... The Green Manalishi Mar 2016 #7

He was mentally ill, but not insane marshall Mar 2016 #5

mahannah

(893 posts)

1. Cruel and unusual.

Reply to WhiteTara (Original post)

Tue Mar 22, 2016, 08:10 PM

Mar 2016

farleftlib

(2,125 posts)

2. Will we never learn?

Reply to WhiteTara (Original post)

Tue Mar 22, 2016, 08:18 PM

Mar 2016

Killing a mentally ill man. WTG, Texas!

The DP has no place in civilized society.

Uponthegears

(1,499 posts)

3. Unfortunately

Reply to WhiteTara (Original post)

Tue Mar 22, 2016, 08:42 PM

Mar 2016

It takes five to get a stay.

Also unfortunately, at a moment in history when the appointment of a judge who was faithful to the Constitution (a LIBERAL judge) would have ended the barbaric practice of capital punishment, the person up for Scalia's seat would have, in all likelihood, voted against a stay.

LS_Editor

(893 posts)

4. And we have the gall to tell Cuba to be better on human rights.

Reply to WhiteTara (Original post)

Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:00 PM

Mar 2016

American exceptionalism. American arrogance.

mountain grammy

(26,619 posts)

6. You said it!

Reply to LS_Editor (Reply #4)

Tue Mar 22, 2016, 11:05 PM

Mar 2016

The Green Manalishi

(1,054 posts)

7. It's not terrorism when we do it overseas...

Reply to LS_Editor (Reply #4)

Tue Mar 22, 2016, 11:10 PM

Mar 2016

Just like it's not human rights abuse when the Prison Industrial Complex does it to people here.

marshall

(6,665 posts)

5. He was mentally ill, but not insane

Reply to WhiteTara (Original post)

Tue Mar 22, 2016, 10:39 PM

Mar 2016

I knew him. His iq was reported at 123. He was intelligent but had many behavior problems his biggest issue was his parents. His father fostered the violent behavior in Adam and refused to admit he needed any help. He had been a terror to everyone since he was five years old. Everyone was afraid of him but for some reason nothing to as ever done to stop him.

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