Alabama, Florida set to hold executions on same night

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


The Associated Press
Updated 6:02 pm, Thursday, February 22, 2018

If executions set for Alabama, Texas and Florida were carried out Thursday as scheduled, it would have marked the first time in more than eight years that three convicted killers were put to death in the U.S. on the same day.

But Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday accepted the recommendation of the state's parole board and granted clemency for Thomas "Bart" Whitaker.

Whitaker, 38, faced lethal injection for masterminding the fatal shootings of his mother and brother at their suburban Houston home in 2003. His father, Kent, also was shot at the home but survived and led the effort to spare his son from execution.

According to statistics kept by the Washington, D.C.-based Death Penalty Information Center, it is not uncommon for multiple executions to be scheduled in one day, but it is unusual for them all to be carried out. That's because punishments often are halted by courts and execution dates often are withdrawn or rescheduled.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Alabama-Texas-Florida-set-to-hold-executions-on-12633722.php

[Judi Lynn]

1. Supreme Court delays Alabama execution

Updated 6:10 pm, Thursday, February 22, 2018

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Latest on the scheduled execution of an Alabama inmate(all times local):

6 p.m.

The U.S. Supreme Court has delayed the lethal injection of an Alabama inmate as it considers his request to block the execution.

Justices issued the temporary stay at 6 p.m. Thursday, the same time that Doyle Lee Hamm was scheduled to be executed. The court will decide later whether to let the execution proceed Thursday evening.

Hamm's attorney argued that lymphoma and past drug use have damaged his veins too much for a lethal injection. Alabama prison officials have told the courts that they plan to connect the intravenous line to usable veins in Hamm's lower extremities.

Hamm was convicted in the 1987 killing of motel clerk Patrick Cunningham.

More:
https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Court-won-t-block-Alabama-execution-12633961.php

[George II]

3. They'll probably try to find some other way to do it.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Look for them to claim he tried to kill a guard who had to shoot him in self-defense. n/t

[George II]

6. I predicted this!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141995624

"Alabama Senate votes to allow execution by nitrogen gas"

I hope when/if Kim Jong Un decides to launch that nuke, he aims it for Alabama.

[George II]

2. And the barbaric acts continue. Disgusting, yet those southern redneck states relish stuff like this

[DBoon]

5. Culture of slavery

Gotta keep the lower classes in line

[Nitram]

7. Florida killed their prisoner, and Alabama's was cancelled.