British man executed in drug case

[MOBIUS]

Wasn't one of the people executed in Texas recently supposed to have been mentally unstable?

Also, DP for heroin smuggling =

DP for ignorant Texans who run their mouths off about stupid crap =

[SlowwHand]

Sloww, Dashi asked you a reasonable question:

Well?

Or are you just trying to say that Texan DPs are better than Chinese ones?

You're more stupid than DaShi. Why would this provoke me to repeat myself?
Read up, you dumb Welsh bastard.

[Heresson]

My grief over his death would be greater if he wasn't guilty, if he didn't threat his ex-wife and if, after 2005 terrorists attacks in London, he didn't send his friends sms in which he praised them.

Btw, he had 2 children in Poland

[BeBMan]

Executing people in cases, only China can be that cruel

[Provost Harrison]

Yeah, but it had drugs in it. That must have eased the discomfort

[MOBIUS]

You're more stupid than DaShi. Why would this provoke me to repeat myself?
Read up, you dumb Welsh bastard.

Because you don't give any reason whatsoever why you think it's bad for China to sentence heroin smugglers to death, you dumbass Texan *****.

Do you think A) it's a bad idea to kill convicted drug dealers (who, when it comes to drugs like heroin, arguably destroy more people's lives than your average Texan murderer), or is it B) because it was argued he was mentally retarded?

If your answer is A) then you think it's OK for drug dealers to destroy people's lives.

If your answer is B) then you're a ****ing hypocrite (which has been repeatedly proved anyway) because Texas just executed a 'mentally impaired' person just the other week - which means there's hope for you yet...

Answer the damned question properly, you dopey redneck.

[Cort Haus]

Drug users destroy their own lives - if they destroy them, which in most cases they don't (they probably enhance them tbh). People should take responsibility for their actions, not let it be blamed on someone else. If I drink too much it's my fault, not the shop's or the pub's.

[SlowwHand]

I think it's laughable that people give Texas grief over executing murderers, but here's a country executing a British citizen over drugs, and some of the same people think it's fine.
Hypocrites.

[Wezil]

I think most people are having difficulty with the "fairness" of the trial. If there was mental instability I don't think it could have been properly explored in a 30 minute trial. The decision was a foregone conclusion imho.

[DaShi]

I think it's laughable that people give Texas grief over executing murderers, but here's a country executing a British citizen over drugs, and some of the same people think it's fine.
Hypocrites.

The people who give Texas grief are those who are adamantly against the the death penalty or have issue with specific cases, such as executing the mentally ill or those whose trials weren't convincing. Thus, there is no hypokresy. Like a Texas judge you posted this thread with the verdict determined in your mind before considering any evidence.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/18/death-penalty-falls-us/print

US imposes fewer death penalties as DNA evidence see more people clearedNumber of death sentences falls to 106, seventh straight year the number has fallen and sharply down on high of 328 in 1994

Polk County public defender Robert Young hugs James Bain, right, who was aquitted after wrongly spending 35 years in prison for rape. Photograph: Michael Wilson/AP


The number of death sentences imposed by US courts has fallen because of a growing number of exonerations through DNA testing, according to a report by a prominent anti-death penalty group.

The Death Penalty Information Centre in Washington says judges and juries imposed fewer death sentences over the past 12 months than at any time since the restoration of execution in 1976.

This year 106 death sentences have been passed, the seventh straight year the number has fallen and sharply down on the high of 328 in 1994. Richard Dieter, DPIC's director and author of the report, said the fall reflected growing concern over the reliability of convictions. "The principal reason is the innocence cases, the exonerations, people getting out because of DNA testing.

"People read about these exonerations, people walking out of prison 20 years after the crime. Jurors are convicting but giving life sentences not the death penalty."

DPIC said nine condemned men were exonerated in 2009, the second highest number of exonerations since the death penalty was reinstated.

The Innocence Project says that overall 245 convicts have subsequently been cleared by DNA evidence across the US. Yesterday a man was released after 35 years in prison for raping a child. James Bain was sentenced to life for kidnapping and raping a nine-year-old boy who identified him from a photograph. A judge ordered the 54-year-old to be freed after DNA testing cleared him of the crime.

Dieter said the decline in death sentences was particularly pronounced in the two states that carry out the most executions, Texas and Virginia. A decade ago Texas was imposing 34 death sentences a year. This year it imposed nine. In Virginia the number fell to one this year from an average of six a year in the 1990s.

The economic climate had also contributed, Dieter said, because prosecutors were increasingly hesitant to spend the millions of dollars it often takes to secure a death penalty conviction when spending by many states is being cut.

The number of executions rose to 52 this year, a sharp increase on the year before, because of the lifting of the de facto moratorium while the supreme court considered the legality of lethal injection.

Half of the executions were in Texas. But the total number was still down by nearly half from 10 years ago.

[Q Classic]

China

Getting rid of the ****ing foreign devil gweilo, one at a time.

[Dinner]

This chinks just like killing white people... Er, Pakis.

[David Floyd]

What's wrong with executed retards? We'd just end up supporting them socially for their entire ****ty life, anyway. ****, we should sue their mothers for not aborting them.

Actually, I wonder if that could work...if my tax dollars go to support someone with, say, Down's Syndrome, should I have a cause of action against the mother for not choosing abortion? Hmmmmm....I think I should

[David Floyd]

What's wrong with executed retards? We'd just end up supporting them socially for their entire ****ty life, anyway. ****, we should sue their mothers for not aborting them.

Actually, I wonder if that could work...if my tax dollars go to support someone with, say, Down's Syndrome, should I have a cause of action against the mother for not choosing abortion? Hmmmmm....I think I should

[Dinner]

Speaking of stupid people... How are you Floyd?