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    Death row inmate gets court OK to drop appeals

    Now, tell me again that life sentencing is more cruel than execution.
    Less cruel or not, I'm for executing.


    06:40 PM CDT on Wednesday, August 12, 2009

    Associated Press


    HOUSTON - A federal appeals court has granted a condemned Texas inmate's request to drop his appeals and proceed with his execution for the slaying of an 84-year-old East Texas woman more than nine years ago.

    Danielle Simpson, 29, told the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that he's tired of being locked up and wants to die.

    The New Orleans-based court agreed Wednesday to dismiss his appeals after a competency hearing. His attorney told the judges that he believes Simpson is sincere, and after the prisoner also sent a handwritten note to the court expressing his wishes.

    He was sentenced to die for the abduction and murder of former Palestine school teacher Geraldine Davidson during a January 2000 burglary of her home.
    The chamber is pretty booked though. I guess someone can work a double.
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    The death penalty capitol of the hemisphere only has one?
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    • #3
      Why didn't he just get some Texan fat ass who hides guns in his fat flabs to shoot him?
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      • #4
        Oerdin, fatass' gun was not loaded.

        Ozzy, one what?
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        He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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        • #5
          THE chamber.
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          • #6
            Yes, as far as I'm aware, one chamber. I'm fairly sure, but I could be wrong, that they've done 2 in one day. Trying to catch up after the moratorium.
            Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
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            He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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            • #7
              That is what Ozzy wondered about.
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              • #8
                It's not like Texas has a multi-chamber facility. I don't think anyone really gets off on it all that much.
                Every execution has an equivalent victim, or more. It's not party time or anything.
                Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
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                He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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                • #9
                  I'm not asking for explanations.
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                  • #10
                    I know. It's just the prevalent thought here that drove me to it, for once.
                    Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
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                    He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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                    • #11
                      I've always said that life is crueler than death.
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                      • #12
                        this is more an argument for legal euthanasia rather then the death penalty.

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                        • #13
                          Yeah, well, I'm against it. Criminals should have to suffer like the rest of us.
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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by DaShi View Post
                            I've always said that life is crueler than death.


                            Death is sweet release. Prison is a pain in the ass.
                            John Brown did nothing wrong.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by SlowwHand View Post
                              Now, tell me again that life sentencing is more cruel than execution.
                              Less cruel or not, I'm for executing.
                              Yes, because that's what Jesus would do . . . oh wait.
                              Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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