Texas Lifts Federal Reprieve, Executes Inmate

[IChing]

U.S. District Judge Nancy Atlas had blocked Dominique Green's execution after his attorneys argued that boxes of improperly stored and catalogued evidence, kept by the crime lab and recently discovered, could contain information relevant to the case.
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The state attorney general's office objected to the reprieve, which was then lifted by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to grant a last-minute stay.
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The execution was opposed by relatives of the man Green was convicted of killing and by religious leaders, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu and the Rev. Joseph Fiorenza, the Roman Catholic bishop of the Galveston-Houston diocese.
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"There was a lot of people that got me to this point and I can't thank them all," Green said in a barely audible voice. "I am not angry but I am disappointed that I was denied justice. But I am happy that I was afforded you all as family and friends. I love you all. ... Please keep my memory alive." http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TEXAS_EXECUTION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

[kokomo]

1. Pro-life until a human being is born!!! Then bomb, strafe, execute.

[Voltaire99]

6. Well said. In a sense, right wing moralists view abortion as competition.

And in Texas, home of the Walton family, they do so like to corner a market.

[alarimer]

2. I don't get this

how big a deal would it have been to delay the execution until the evidence was looked at to see if it was relevant?? A few weeks or months??? We will never know now if the mistakes made by that crime lab meant somebody was convicted who shouldn't have been and now that he is dead, it doesn't matter. I swear the state of Texas is barbaric. Bunch of Neanderthal criminals in the state house.

[IChing]

4. they're compasionate conservatives

they put a pillow on an electric chair, or ballons and a cake
for a life sentence...see my post on this page on that one
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=933641&mesg_id=933641

[saigon68]

9. They are powerful "Head Cases"

Being cheered on by a killer mob of "Toothless Inbreeds"

[fortyfeetunder]

3. I hope this man is eventually found innocent

And we have reason to curse the whole mother fucking Texas execution system.

FUCK YOU TEXAS JUSTICE SYSTEM -- FUCK ALL OF YOU MOTHER FUCKERS!!!

[baby_bear]

5. But who will do that?

I suspect that The Innocence Project can barely keep up with cases of people who haven't yet been potentially unjustly executed. Who will look at this man's case?

Not likely. Certainly not the state of Texas.

Despicable.

Where are the Catholic Cardinals to condemn this?

s_m

[kokomo]

7. The Catholic Bishop of Houston and Bishop TuTu pleaded with the state.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu and the Rev. Joseph Fiorenza, the Roman Catholic bishop of the Galveston-Houston diocese asked the State of Texas to grant clemency.

[Dogmudgeon]

8. Isn't Bishop Tutu an Anglican Bishop?

Sad, though, that in spite of people like Father Joe (Fiorenza), so many R.C. Bishops are such right-wing culture warriors.

--bkl