You gotta give Anthony Pierce this:
He may be a low-life killer, but he’s pretty good at avoiding the consequences.
How good? Try this: He’s been on death row … for nearly 32 years!
That’s right, taxpayers. More than three decades after he was convicted of killing the manager of a fried chicken joint in Houston, Tenacious Tony is still hanging on.
Or our boneheaded legal system is letting him hang on. And it’s not over yet.
An appeals court is going to hear new arguments that he had poor legal help in the past and is mentally impaired.
Are they serious?
I think the record reflects that Pierce had pretty darned good legal help over the past 32 years. That would be because his legal help has kept him alive for the past 32 years.
And how many times do you think these exact same arguments have been hashed and rehashed over the past 32 years? This guy has had three separate trials!
Sheesh. Can this story get any crazier?
Well, yes it can.
Back in 1979, soon after arriving for what would be a very, very long stay on Death Row, Pierce fatally stabbed another inmate!
And he still avoids the death penalty, decade after decade.
What a farce. Whatever you call this, it isn’t justice.
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Delay of game
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Time to eliminate the death penalty; let the inmates work and pay their lawyers themselves.
Or we could just fry his *ss now.
You brute Sven! If I weren't so busy on my Global Warming lesson plan for this Sunday's CCD class I'd bicycle over there and tell you off sternly! People commit crimes because of George Bush and his Global Warming Crimes Against Humanity. Call off your old, tire right-wrong matrix. It's about psychology. And sensitivity. And, like, stuff.
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