California to execute blind deaf man they revived from death.

[NNadir]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/3589224.html

FRESNO, Calif. — Dusk had just fallen on the night of Sept. 5, 1980, when Jack Abbott heard gunshots at the general store next door. He grabbed his shotgun and vaulted the wall separating their properties.

"I could see them in there, someone with a gun in their hand. I could see somebody lying on the floor," Abbott recalled during a recent interview...

...Barring a last-minute reprieve, Allen will become the oldest inmate put to death in California if he is executed as scheduled at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, just after his 76th birthday.

Allen's attorneys have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene, arguing that executing a feeble old man amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. Allen has gone blind and deaf and uses a wheelchair. His heart stopped in September, but doctors revived him and returned him to death row. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed his case Sunday. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger denied clemency on Friday.

Allen already was serving life in prison for murder when he gave Hamilton a hit list of seven people who had testified against him. He wanted them dead so they couldn't testify during his appeals...

It's hard not to be excited by living in such a fabulous country...

[sendero]

1. Imagine..

.... executing someone who gave a list of 7 people he wanted killed (to prevent them from testifying in an appeal) to a guy getting out of jail.

I don't have a hard time imagining it at all. I don't care if he's 90, FUCK HIM.

[NNadir]

2. I'm glad they brought him back from the dead for this.

It's much more fun that way.

[sendero]

4. I'm sure you think you are..

... making some kind of point. Fact is, the state's mandate is not to deny care, it is to carry out an execution at a predetermined time.

If they actually did deny care and let him die, you'd be bitching about that.

[NNadir]

6. Thank you for telling me what I think.

I'm not bitching. I'm highly ethusiastic for this display.

I would hope it would be televised, so we can see if he's blindfolded. In fact, this displays American values so well, I think we should put it on state television in the colonies as well. I'm sure that executing a blind, deaf guy will put the fear of the only true god in the minds of Iraqi suicide bombers.

We are very serious about murder in this country, and murderers can only expect murder.

It kind of cuts to the chase doesn't it about the purpose of executions? This guy did, after all, order people executed from prison. There is no telling what henious crimes he might commit were he allowed to live. Telepathy is a terrible thing. I agree with both the state and this carreer criminal that the best way to confront problems is to kill the problem.

[demosincebirth]

5. If I was as sick as he is...

I would probably welcome death.

[NNadir]

8. Yeah. It's not like he's going to have a happy life.

Many people think death row is a happy place. I suspect it isn't.

I note the first person executed upon restoration of the modern death penalty, Gary Gilmore, was begging to be shot by the state of Utah. He resisted all attempts to appeal his sentence.

[SixStrings]

3. Why should his age matter? Are we not ALL equal? n/t

[oneighty]

7. Depends on what

your definition of equal is.

Many of us are far more equal than others. I know that for a fact.

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