Aug 7 - Mentally Retarded Man Will be Executed in Texas Today

http://www.salon.com/2012/08/02/woul...ecute_a_child/

In 2002 the Supreme Court ruled that executing the mentally retarded violated the Eighth Amendment. The Court left it up to individual states to decide on what procedures to use when determining whether defendants were in fact mentally retarded, or were falsely claiming to be so. (In a characteristically brutal dissent Justice Scalia argued that the inconvenience of sorting out false claims from valid ones was a good reason for not barring such executions.)

Subsequently, almost every capital punishment state that didn’t already have a statute dealing with the issue passed a law telling courts how to handle capital cases involving a claim of mental retardation. But the Texas legislature was too busy with such things as passing laws requiring students to pledge allegiance to the flags of the U.S. and Texas and spend a minute in “silent reflection” (right-wing code for prayer) to ever get around to dealing with the matter.

Living in a state that is managed by imbeciles or right wing ideologues can mean the [rip] of someone you know or love. In this case, the defendant, Marvin Wilson, will most likely die, even though k!lling him is illegal. Even though I.Q. tests given to Wilson prove he has the I.Q. of a six year old, the state of Texas is still planning on k!lling him.

One would think that the Supreme Court would step in if a state knowingly violated its previous ruling, but the Court’s been silent on that front. But what does a Supreme Court verdict matter if states don’t take it seriously? We should all ask whether this is a new trend where the Supreme Court decides and the states just ignores the Court’s decisions. We may very well be entering an era where states’ rights trump the Supreme Court. That’s almost unfathomable, but that is the precedent set if the Supreme Court does not intervene in Wilson’s execution today.

Texas sucks. [pic]@ this.

[pic] Yo azz propably didnt even read the report. Ol Ima comment just because azz nicca....

I read about this on Salon a few days ago. Try again retard. Dont u have Illuminati videos to be posting or something?

So while he was out on bond he abducted and k!lled a police informant....I'm failing to see the problem [pic]

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The problem is he's retarded. (Might be).

He had the IQ to have a child, to sell cocaine, to rob people and abduct and k!ll an informant, but now that it's time to take responsibility for those actions he's "mentally retarded"...how convenient

I do not believe in [rip] penalty..its no real solution..or rehabilitation. And more or less an easy way out if ya ask me..people who are on [rip] row should suffer in prison. But this man clearly acted with clarity. He is using a system loophole to claim he is mentally retarded. But that is the law indeed. I whole heartedly support using the system..because the system is designed to keep people that do not know it a part of it. Although in my case as well if I've willfully commited something that should be punished Im willing to also pay my time for crime..as should this man

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Embraced that white, liberal leftism!

oh look this dude still following me around and talking about me[pic] also got your favorite words "white liberal" in there. [pic]@ this moron.

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Well, that's it. thread over

Kinda like what our gov't is doing to congress huh?


As for the article, I believe dude should be put to [rip] but that's because I support the [rip] penalty in cases of brutal murks and proven beyond a reasonable doubt.

!! if we went back to the days of Sparta 1) there would be less bull!! to deal with going on in society 2) less population to deal with and 3) rules would be clearly defined and none of this bull!! back and forth.

fry this mutha !!a.

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Nothing more to be said

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This sounds about right.

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dumb nicca