If Alabama gets any more black eyes this year we're going to go blind.
First it was the immigration law prompting international coverage showing the state the state as heartless.
Now it's eight of the nine U.S. Supreme Court justices suggesting they will overturn lower courts in an Alabama Death Penalty case.
Are we so bloodthirsty as to stick by a technicality in order to get an inmate into the chair (or gurney)?
Here's what one of the Justices asked during today's hearing, according to the L.A. Times report:
Read the L.A.Times story. I know we are poor, but are we so poor as to allow that an obvious mistake was made in this case?
First it was the immigration law prompting international coverage showing the state the state as heartless.
Now it's eight of the nine U.S. Supreme Court justices suggesting they will overturn lower courts in an Alabama Death Penalty case.
Are we so bloodthirsty as to stick by a technicality in order to get an inmate into the chair (or gurney)?
“Why didn’t you consent to this? Why push this technical argument?” Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. asked Alabama state solicitor John C. Neiman Jr.But Neiman didn't give up, and continued to insist that Alabama was on the right path, as lower Federal Courts had ruled.
Read the L.A.Times story. I know we are poor, but are we so poor as to allow that an obvious mistake was made in this case?
Thank you! I posted it to our page Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty in Alabama!
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