ITS TWO FOR ONE DAY IN TENN.

“Trying to direct you to the web page where TENN is taking out TWO killers in one day...WAY TO GO.

REMEMBER the Death Penalty works every time it is tried”

“Did they have one guy sitting in the other guy's lap on ol' sparky?”

“and yet, people still keep killing”

“let's stop murders by murdering more people...there's some logic ;)”

“dont get me wrong, im not against the death penalty, i just dont think its much of a deterrant. maybe if we did it more often...”

“I dunno, it seems like a pretty good deterent to the guy sitting in the chair. I don't remember ever hearing of one going back into a life of crime.”

“and yet, people still keep killing”

“Yeah crash they do....but the one who does the killing...they cannot recommit crimes. We have a SBAG here who got released after 20 years. Was out a week and commited a murder. Thats a KNEEL and POP conviction.

Can they be rehabilitated....don't know, but I do know this. When an animal is vicious...we take them out of their misery. A human who has lost the ability for compassion....they are nothing but an animal.

By the way..>TENN does the injection”

“XL, either Tenn needs to execute them or just abolish it totally. One of the guys was suppose to be executed about 2 months ago but got an appeal from the Gov. That supposedly gave his lawyers time to get some new test run on DNA..didn't happen so now it is time to die. He killed raped and killed a woman yrs ago. She was home on leave from the Marines

The other guy Reid killed 7 people after robbing the fast food stores they worked in.

I knew one of the girls he killed. She was 17 getting ready to graduate from high school and go on to nursing school. He shot her and 2 others in the back of the head. He slit the throat of 2 girls and left them to die. He also shot 2 others in the back of the head. All were teenagers except for the managers and they were in there 20's”

“Reid has been granted a stay. He still could be excuted tomorrow but not looking like it will happen.

The other guy (Ally) is still on for execution at 1:00 AM”

“but the one who does the killing...they cannot recommit crimes.

so fcking what. in terms of sheer numbers, the handful of people that are executed every year is surely so small as to be meaningless.

howeverl, i am in 100 percent agreement with this:

When an animal is vicious...we take them out of their misery. A human who has lost the ability for compassion....they are nothing but an animal.

you murder another human, especially in cold blood, youve forfeited your own life. it has to be done to protect society. act like an animal, fcking die like an animal”

“I think it’s stupid to claim the death penalty is a deterrent. I don’t give two craps weather it’s a deterrent or not. It’s a punishment. I know, I know. How cold hearted and unPC of me to expect someone to pay for their crimes.”

“Personally I think lethal injection is too good for them. They deserve to die the same way as their victims.”

“Lumber I realize the REVENGE factor is strong. I had a GF years ago who was in a bad Ex relationship. The Scum came back one time while I was THERE. He got out of the Hospital and got a warrant against him.

Three weeks later (I was 'otherwise occupied out of the country") he came back. What he did to her was gruesome. Personally I wanted to start at one end and cut my way to the other. I wanted to put an IV drip so I could keep him alive as long as possible.

Then a friend (a RABBI by the way) explained that the death penalty is not REVENGE. It is punishment, it is in essence (Rabbi's own words here) "We must render unto Caeser what is Caeser's". (want to know what that is from?) and he explained that we as people forgive if we want to remain sane. But those who have violated the agreements by which we live in a civilized society must pay society the due for those violations.”

“Convicted rapist and killer Sedley Alley was executed early this morning by lethal injection, the second inmate to be put to death in Tennessee since 1960.

Alley’s lawyers said they would continue to press for DNA testing on crime scene evidence that they believe will show an innocent man was put to death today.

Meanwhile, the state continued to prepare to execute a second inmate, serial killer Paul Dennis Reid, who killed seven people at Nashville and Clarksville eateries in 1997. (See separate story on Reid's legal case and stay of execution.)

Alley, 50, was pronounced dead at 2:12 a.m. today by a doctor at the state’s death chamber at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in west Nashville, state prison system spokeswoman Dorinda Carter said. He died about 10 minutes after a lethal series of drugs began flowing into his veins, according to members of the press who witnessed the execution.

He was convicted of the 1985 rape and murder of Suzanne Collins, 19, a young Marine who had been out jogging while undergoing aviation training at the Millington Naval Air Station near Memphis.

The Collins family did not witness this morning’s execution, but they had a representative on hand at the prison to read a statement on their behalf after the execution was carried out.

“Rest in peace, Suzanne. The jury’s sentence has been carried out,” read Verna Wyatt, head of the victims’ rights group You Have the Power. The family sharply criticized the death penalty system in Tennessee, saying it has been “greviously abused,” and that too many years pass before death row inmates are put to death.

“The old saying rings true,” Wyatt read. “Justice delayed is justice denied.”

Alley’s two grown children, David and April, were present at the execution. Before the drugs started to flow into his veins, Alley made a final statement in the death chamber in which he said that he loved them, media witnesses said after the execution.

“I love you, Dad, it’s OK,” Alley’s daughter, April McIntyre, was reported to have said. Her comments were relayed after the execution by reporter Janice Broach of WMC-TV in Memphis.

Through the window separating the death chamber and the witness room, Alley blew kisses back and encouraged his children to “be good and stay strong, stay together.” He exhaled a couple of times, then turned pale but otherwise remained silent, the press witnesses said.

The death by lethal injection was the second ordered execution in Tennessee since 1960. Robert Glen Coe was executed in 2000 for the rape and murder of 8-year-old Cary Ann Medlin.

Alley had previously received a 15-day reprieve last month from Gov. Phil Bredesen, intended to give the condemned man time to argue in court that he should be able to perform DNA testing on crime scene evidence.

Collins was brutally murdered. She was raped with a yard-long tree limb that impaled her internal organs and was left inside her. Police said Alley showed them the tree from which he took the limb.

In recent years, Alley had said he was innocent of the crime, and that newly available scientific advances in DNA testing would prove his claim.

But the courts did not grant the tests, and his execution was rescheduled once the 15 days ran out.

His defense team remained convinced of his innocence, and after the execution said they will continue to press their case in the courts to gain access to the evidence so that it can be tested.

“God help the people in this process if the DNA proves he didn’t do it,” said Alley’s lawyer, Kelley Henry, an assistant federal public defender. “We will test the DNA.”

Another of Alley’s legal team, DNA expert Barry Scheck of the nonprofit Innocence Project, said the state’s unwillingness to test the DNA before executing Alley was “deeply disturbing.

“DNA reveals the truth. It can exonerate the innocent and identify the guilty. But in this case DNA couldn't reveal the truth, because nobody would let the evidence be tested,” Scheck said in a statement. “Tonight, the state of Tennessee executed a man they thought was probably guilty. That shouldn't be good enough."

Alley’s execution followed a burst of legal activity Tuesday and continued almost until the time Alley brought into the death chamber, at 1:46 a.m.

A federal judge issued a stay of the execution around 11 p.m. Tuesday, just two hours before the execution had been scheduled to begin. The state attorney general’s office fought back vigorously, describing the events around Judge Gil Merritt’s last-minute stay as a “highly irregularly and in brazen violation every rule that applies to this situation,” and called his order “unlawful.”

The attorney general’s office appealed the stay to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, on which Merritt sits. Two judges from that court, including Chief Circuit Judge Danny J. Boggs and Judge James L. Ryan, overturned the stay, according to a fax from the court clerk’s office that was sent at 1:18 a.m.

Earlier Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court had denied all of Alley’s appeals, and Bredesen had denied Alley’s request for clemency.
Bredesen spokeswoman Lydia Lenker said in a statement that the governor “believes that this matter has been thoroughly and appropriately reviewed by the courts and therefore has denied clemency.”

Alley’s body was taken from the prison after the execution and sent to the local medical examiner for an autopsy. It was unclear what arrangements, if any, have been made for his remains.

Alley spent his final days in one of the four “death watch” cells at Riverbend. Last night, after his execution, as witnesses exited the death chamber area, a face could be seen through the window from inside one of the other cells – smiling and waving.

The face was that of Paul Dennis Reid, who, if the state gets its way, will also have his body wheeled away before the day is over.

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060628/NEWS03/60628003”

“See now when they are executed...I think we should remove the body, grind it up and mix it into Asphalt where it will be put GOD knows where. That way there is the reality that YOU ARE GOING TO DISAPPEAR FROM SOCIETY.

LOL...I had to love the Soviet style, bullet to the neck and then send a bill for the round to the family.”

“How cold hearted and unPC

look at me, im politically incorrect! im edgy and extreme and stuff! give me a half hour on comedy central GRRRRRRRRRR”

“I wasn’t trying to be ‘edgy’. I was trying to reflect the lack of personal responsibility and the lack of our society to demand responsibility. If someone isn’t all touchy feely and “progressive” they are called cold hearted and unPC.”

“Nigal I have that on my business card.”

“hey everybody its tired cliche hour!”

“Jesus, enough with the whinning already. Don't like my take on things? Tough titty.”

“its not your "take" on things. you dont have a "take" on things. its getting to the point where there are more so-called "un-pc" people than "pc" people. its such a trendy and unsubstantive statement. but people say it left and right, and then ooooohhhh, that person has a shield of unquestionability, because to go against the un-pc person would be seen as being pc, and no one wants that. just one of my pet peeves, nothing personal nigey-poo”

“in other words, if you cant say anything original, dont say anthing at all”

“It’s a common phrase. You would have whined even if I said ‘unpopular’ or ‘unconventional’. Why? Because that is how you try and stay edgy by trying to go against anything that is conventional. A true rebel to be emulated.

You’re like the Fonzie of TT. AYYYYE!”

“see? now thats better. you get 2 points for the reversal”

“Frickin' Potsy! LOL!”

“Reid execution postponed indefinitely

By SHEILA BURKE
Staff Writer

Convicted serial killer Paul Dennis Reid will not be executed today, after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to lift a stay of execution in his case.

Reid, who was supposed to be put to death by lethal injection early this morning, got a reprieve yesterday when a federal judge stayed the execution.

U.S. District Judge Todd Campbell had said he wanted the execution postponed until a hearing could be held to determine whether Reid is mentally competent enough to understand that he could be executed.

State lawyers spent most of today trying to get Campbell's stay lifted so that Reid could be executed. The execution order was valid for today, and had the stay been lifted, Reid could have been put to death, in theory, as late as 11:59 p.m.

With the action by the nation's highest court today, Reid's execution is now indefinitely delayed.

Reid is on death row for killing seven people at eateries in Clarksville and Nashville in 1997
http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060628/NEWS03/60628019/-1/NLETTER04


was he mentally competent when he killed those 7 people? Who cares fry inject him”

“I remember a few years ago this one guy dodged the Chair.....three weeks later he was sitting on the can (steel) with an illegal radio pressed to his ear.....there was a short and he electrocuted himself.”

“lol, fried crap on the crapper”