Texas to execute inmate diagnosed as 'mentally retarded'

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FlintyV

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Oh you act so high and mighty. You reek of arrogance. Making excuses for criminals now are we? You don't have to explain anything to me I know how the justice system works. I was explaining how I'd run it though. No I wouldn't shoot him in the street, i'd make him eat English cooking, that would make him beg for mercy. :)

hah, the hypocrisy is astounding.

Glad to see you sticking to your idea of not knocking other countries there, Oh wait.

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Most of the cost comes from the trail. If someone like james holmes gets arrested for murdering people you really think he's innocent? No need to drag on the process. Whos going to argue that hes innocent anyway? Swift justice. innocent until proven guilty? I believe the people he killed pretty much proves hes guilty.

On the news he said he was talking until he got a laywer... I never understood that. If he's willingly talking, let him keep going and let him admit it and close the case, and throw him 6ft under quickly.

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Texas, a state that rejects scientific consensus

Bingo! Also, having eaten cuisine from around the world: English food while cooking smells like it should - ingredients being cooked. American food while cooking smells of chemicals and fat.

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It costs more to execute a person than to let them remain in jail for the rest of their lives. Even so, is the US obsession with money so extreme that people would rather execute prisoners if it would save money? And all this from a country that talks up its Christian values. Crazy.

I'd like to see some links with facts about the cost... I find that hard to believe, however, even if it's true, how much does a bullet cost? Pretty sure you only need one if you want to execute somebody.

BTW... read up on captial punishment/christian values before you call us all crazy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment#Christianity

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Well according to this 90,000$ a year to house someone on death row in California. As for the the axact amount just for an execution, I couldn't find out. But in my opinion, it would be significantly less, just for the procedure. You can't tell me that the chemicals to put someone down costs 25mil.

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So basically the state of Texas can do what ever the hell they want to do? A kind of 'To hell with the law?' or is this just a way for everyone to feel pity for the prisoner?

No, but they don't put up with people faking it. This prisoner is only a retard now after the appeal that he wrote and filed him self failed. He was involved in his own defense and was noted as have a normal to above normal intelligence. His original public defender can't figure out how he can make the mental defective claim, he though he was was more then normal when he handle the case, he is now retired and has done several interviews on it, which the current defense teams are fighting.

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Hmm, where did I hear that a law is a law if its broke the person must be punished, no exceptions..

Dunno, Iran? Or, it might be China, Iraq or North-Korea. That almost sums up the list of national states that execute people next to the US.

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wth are you talking about? What does scientific consensus have to do with anything?

Wow... What DOESN'T it have to do with this!

:/ No.

Sorry, but Yes. Our food smells of, well... Food. You may not be used to that...

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Dunno, Iran? Or, it might be China, Iraq or North-Korea. That almost sums up the list of national states that execute people next to the US.

You're right but I think he's cleverly refering to this thread he started - https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1096001-sas-hero-jailed-sergeant-sentenced-to-two-years-after-gun-found/

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I like how the article almost completely dismisses the guy's crime because of his mental state.

While all you folks are ready to drop the bomb on Texas because we're stupid, religious, backward gun fanatics, I still see nothing wrong with this at all. Not because I'm some crazed loon, but rather that I firmly believe stupid people shouldn't continue to reproduce. I'm not for the promotion for the genocide of these people now, but if they do something that somehow castrates them or ends in their death, so be it. I won't cry when I read the Darwin awards, I'm not sure how you expect me to be upset by someone who took another man's life. It's not like anyone's killing him for his mental state, but rather for his actions.

And seeing how as we're arguing who's food smells better, you guys do nothing but prove the point that you're once again fighting a children's game of one-upmanship.

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ANON86364

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Sorry, but Yes. Our food smells of, well... Food. You may not be used to that...

What the hell, man?

I would actually bet money you've never had Salmon as good as mine, grilled on a cedar plank with lemon pepper rub, garlic, white wine with brown sugar to glaze the top. Or chicken breast seared on the stove with a dry rub, garlic, and white wine. I'd also venture to bet you've never had such good BBQ as what they have in the south. Not sure where you get your ideas of "American" cooking but it's certainly not accurate.

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FlintyV

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I like how the article almost completely dismisses the guy's crime because of his mental state.

While all you folks are ready to drop the bomb on Texas because we're stupid, religious, backward gun fanatics, I still see nothing wrong with this at all. Not because I'm some crazed loon, but rather that I firmly believe stupid people shouldn't continue to reproduce. I'm not for the promotion for the genocide of these people now, but if they do something that somehow castrates them or ends in their death, so be it. I won't cry when I read the Darwin awards, I'm not sure how you expect me to be upset by someone who took another man's life. It's not like anyone's killing him for his mental state, but rather for his actions.

And seeing how as we're arguing who's food smells better, you guys do nothing but prove the point that you're once again fighting a children's game of one-upmanship.

It's not dismissing his crime but stating that -

"In 2002, the US supreme court banned executions for all such prisoners under the Eighth Amendment of the constitution that prohibits excessive punishment. The 2002 ban, in Atkins v Virginia, is categorical: individuals with mental retardation cannot be put to death."

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I'm not arguing that he needs removing from society, maybe not reproducing - but I feel that murdering him IF he was legally found to be mentally unable to evaluate his decisions is a ridiculous outcome.

As for food - I'd gladly take part in another discussion elsewhere.

I would actually bet money you've never had Salmon as good as mine,
I'd rather think that while I may thoroughly enjoy your salmon, I have eaten at some of the best restaurants in the UK and around the world. Worked with chefs who cook for royalty and a few "celbrity chefs" too. I'd take that bet ;)
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