Rick Scott admits delaying execution for fundraiser.

[RandySF]

lorida Gov. Rick Scott (R) admitted in a debate against challenger Charlie Crist (D) that he delayed an execution to accommodate the political fundraising schedule of the Attorney General.

Here's the video:

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2014/10/21/scott_delayed_execution_for_fundraiser.html

[gordianot]

1. Scott is a living disgusting obsenity.

My opinion every State that has Capital Punishment the Governor should be physically present for the execution.

[Kablooie]

7. Well, HE'S not a Stark.

In the book and TV show "Game of Thrones" the Lord Ned Stark says to his sons:

"The man who passes the sen­tence should swing the sword. If you would take a man’s life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you can­not bear to do that, then per­haps the man does not de­serve to die."

It's fiction but I always think of this when I hear of governors who play around with executions as if they were of no importance.

[delete_bush]

17. Thanks, that is perfection.

Just a few nights ago my wife mentioned something about the death penalty, to which I responded with something along the line of "if you're in favor of the state killing a person, then you should also be willing to be the one throwing the switch".

Embarrassingly bland compared to Stark, who adds dimension and makes the case far more eloquently. I plan on memorizing this for future use!

[tclambert]

31. But the Lannisters killed him, and slaughtered children, and they won the throne.

The Lannisters killed the Targaryen children, and all the Reynes of Castamere, and they sort of won the Game of Thrones, though they also made themselves the most hated house in Westeros.

All right, I favor Ned Stark's view, also, and I still hate it that George R. R. Martin had him beheaded.

[Kablooie]

36. The Lannisters were Republicans.

They are horrible but they win by cheating.

[sammy750]

25. Scott agreed he fraud Medicare.

Gov. R. Scott says he made mistakes and did fraud Medicare out of over a billion $. He took the fifth amendment at this trial, but still was charged with 14 felons. He is a multi million and never paid back one penny to the tax payers. Instead he moved from TX to Florida and won the Governor race the same year. This is the type of candidates the Republicans move around from state to state, hiding their past. Why do the voters of FL elect a 14 time felon, must be those senior moments in FL

[Dont call me Shirley]

2. Scott's eyes look like a crazed lunatic. Charlie's look is like "un-be-lie-va-ble" Ricky, you just

handed me the win!

[Man from Pickens]

4. It's the Hank Paulson look

I know I've seen that look before

[Dont call me Shirley]

5. Check it out...

[link:http://|http://beforeitsnews.com/financial-markets/2013/09/hank-paulson-warns-of-another-financial-crisis-2604392.html

[Jackpine Radical]

8. …here:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/Henry_Paulson_official_Treasury_photo,_2006.jpg

[Dont call me Shirley]

22. Thanks, I forgot the link.

[link:http://|http://beforeitsnews.com/financial-markets/2013/09/hank-paulson-warns-of-another-financial-crisis-2604392.html

[LiberalElite]

9. He looks like one of those "Evil Clowns" without the evil clown makeup nt

[PADemD]

28. He looks like he's high or drunk.

[Cali_Democrat]

3. WOW! Smackdown...

[valerief]

6. Scott sounds like this guy to me.

Always mumbling and barely enunciating his words.

[BrotherIvan]

20. Hey now!

That guy is adorable. Rick Scott is one of the strangest looking people I've seen on television. More like this guy (who was apparently very nice).

[Dont call me Shirley]

33. Clone of Scott

[SoapBox]

10. You have GOT to be kidding!

Sick...just plain sick.

[mountain grammy]

11. Very creepy man, that Rick Scott.

[brentspeak]

12. Rick Scott looks like one of Jim Carrey's demented characters n/t

[Egnever]

13. Sadly he doesn't admit it

Clearly he did it though.

Good lord what a fucked up thing to do.

[alp227]

14. So John Hickenlooper's a bad guy for changing his view on death penalty while in office,

but right wingers don't give a she-it if Rick Scott delayed an execution so the AG could party it up at a fundraiser? What a joke politics is.

[ThoughtCriminal]

15. Is there a name for Scott's facial expression?

[2naSalit]

16. Yeah...

Sociopath.

[Marr]

18. Smart. Rick Scott is creepy, and that really highlights it.

He seems like some weird character that's escaped from a Stephen King book.

[madville]

19. At least they delayed it I guess instead

Of moving it up sooner. Bought the condemned another month of time before his execution. The downside is the families had to wait through a third such delay in their quest for "justice".

Kind of a confusing topic to get outraged about, our side usually encourages delays and stays from governors in regard to executions. Is our argument that Bondi should have not attended the execution and it went ahead as scheduled or that she should have been there in the scheduled date and skipped her fundraiser?

It would have been a whole lot worse if they moved the execution date up instead of delaying it, they actually did the guy a favor in a way unless he was looking forward to getting it over with.

[kcr]

21. You really think it's okay for AGs and governeres to muck around with execution dates like that

for such trivial reasons? It wasn't a stay for a chance for another appeal.

[morningfog]

23. I get your point. It lends support to the rationale

used by the court in CA to declare the death penalty unconstitutional. The basic premise was that arbitrary delays, uncertainty and the long time to wait makes the DP cruel and unusual.

If a governor can delay for political fundraising, wholly apart from any justice, legal or fairness issue, that is cruel and unusual.

[joshcryer]

38. It's still cronyism.

And it's cronyism, as Crist indicated, of a very high degree, showing moral character. If you're going to be for executing people (I'm against it), then you should take it seriously, not play around with it.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

24. Well, that's one way to end capital punishment.

Just hold a bunch of constant fundraisers.

When morals and ethics don't work, money will, apparently.

[Blue Owl]

26. By Gollum...

Soon, I hope we'll be saying "Bye Gollum!"

[Orsino]

27. Delayed for how long? How much money was raised?

I can't see the video, but amswering these two questions would tell us how much per hour Scott's mercy costs. Perhaps if we gave him an allowance, he'd stop killing people.

[KamaAina]

29. WTF?

[Rocky888]

30. Hard to beleive

These two are running neck and neck. Here in florida, there is an element that would vote for charles Manson if he had a (R) beside it. And most of these people are at poverty level, preaching their hate for all democrats that are out to take away their homes, bibles and guns. And these same people think minority groups are not intelligent enough to vote. I inherited a very modest home with property in north florida Bible Belt. Beautiful area, but the people are so brainwashed that they think it is a sin to ever vote for a minority or a democrat, while they collect their many "free intitlements" and accuse minorities of being "lazy freeloaders". My husband and I just shake our heads in total disgust and disappointment.

[Helen Borg]

32. I think he's on something. Really.

He's abusing some drugs, IMO.

[EEO]

34. I think someone is pulling a Weekend at Bernie's on us with Rick Scott.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

35. Papantonio recently claimed

Scott's handlers are trying to keep him away from all media. I can see why. WOW - what a freakazoid.

[genxlib]

37. Love the zinger at the end.

"He's pleading the fifth!"

[Shoonra]

39. God help those on death row in an election year

It seems extra unfair to be scheduled for execution in an election year. Invariably, IF the Governor is or wants to be a candidate, he's has to look "tough" - i.e., not commute, nor even postpone, the execution - no matter what extenuating circumstances may exist.

In this instance, Scott extended what may be agonizing suspense for the prisoner, who was put to death anyway because, of course, the Gov and A-G had to look tough.

Rick Perry was, in 2012, and maybe will be, running for President and bragging that he's the Texecutioner. He omits mentioning the case of a man put to death for arson-murder on the basis of supposedly expert testimony that turned out to be completely backwards. He wouldn't even let that case be studied by a panel composed for the purpose of reviewing death sentence cases.