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20 Apr 18 - 11:16 AM (#3918716) Subject: BS: Another USA world record... From: McGrath of Harlow This week in Alabama an 83 year old man, Walter Moody, who had spent 22 years on death row, was executed by lethal injection, for sending a lethal mail bomb to a judge back in 1989. Definitely a record for the USA. Pretty certainly a world record too. Not for the length of time on death row before being executed - that stands at at least 33 years. But there are a few who've been on death row longer than that, so that might well be broken. The same could apply to oldest - the oldest man on death row was 94, but then he went and died without needing any lethal injections... |
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20 Apr 18 - 11:29 AM (#3918723) Subject: RE: BS: Another USA world record... From: Stilly River Sage Not everyone here is thrilled with the reputations of various states regarding their robust execution programs. |
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20 Apr 18 - 11:51 AM (#3918735) Subject: RE: BS: Another USA world record... From: Jeri New Hampshire has one guy on death row. We have no execution facility. Laws in other states are occasionally yee-haw-knuckle-dragger spawned, and don't have as much to do with justice as "we-gonna-kill-yer-sorry-ass". I'd guess Alabama is one of those states. |
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23 Apr 18 - 04:46 AM (#3919278) Subject: RE: BS: Another USA world record... From: Bonzo3legs Are we really supposed to sympathise with this 83 year old man? |
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25 Apr 18 - 12:49 PM (#3919923) Subject: RE: BS: Another USA world record... From: Joe Offer Probably there's no need for sympathy, Bonzo - but neither is there any justification for executing an 83-yr-old man, almost thirty years after his crime. |