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RE: 50 years on death row
February 25, 2024 at 5:22 pm
Read the story, it's a fun one.
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RE: 50 years on death row
February 25, 2024 at 5:55 pm
(February 25, 2024 at 5:22 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Read the story, it's a fun one.
I did.
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RE: 50 years on death row
February 25, 2024 at 5:57 pm
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So you see that many of the charges came down to how they administered a drug they then believed to be "truth serum"...(since discredited, ofc)...? That's never not funny. Give me the right drugs and I'll swear I killed jimmy hoffa. They gave this guy those drugs and he told them he was part of the vast satanic conspiracy that never was.
However, as you alluded to, after trying to kill him for many other things, they will eventually kill him for the one thing they know he did. The death of a fellow prisoner.
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RE: 50 years on death row
February 25, 2024 at 5:59 pm
(February 25, 2024 at 2:04 pm)Brian37 Wrote: (February 25, 2024 at 1:09 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: https://apnews.com/article/creech-idaho-...45fb6e5ebb
I'm not sure what I think of this. I'm generally against the death penalty anyway, but he is a serial killer, after all. But does his growing mellow with age justify the support mentioned in the article above? Another part of me eels that his 50 years behind bars is a fate worse than death anyway.
#1 2024 - 1981 is 41 years.
I am against the death penalty for the simple reason that the state can spend virtually indefinite money on prosecution but the accused are limited to mostly public defenders who do not have the time to mount a proper defense. But if one wants to talk about taxes. It costs far more in taxes to prosecute a death penalty case than to simply give them life without parole.
5 convictions he certainly should never leave prison. I have no sympathy for him. But I am still against the death penalty.
But for any others accused of a single death that could be anything from involuntary manslaughter but over charged, a poor person can be very easily railroaded by the system, or be so scared to falsely confess, which does happen.
The potential risk of killing an innocent person is not worth the cost. Life in prison without parole can be reversed if an innocent person is convicted.
He was imprisoned for years before killing the other inmate in 1981.
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RE: 50 years on death row
February 25, 2024 at 6:09 pm
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Indeed. They'd tried to kill him, but that sentence kept getting thrown out for different reasons. Looks like they're finally going to get here, though.
If at first you don't succeed!
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RE: 50 years on death row
February 25, 2024 at 6:40 pm
(February 25, 2024 at 5:14 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Really? Was there someone else suspected of killing David Jensen with a sock full of batteries?
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David Jensen was the fellow prisoner.
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RE: 50 years on death row
February 25, 2024 at 7:02 pm
(February 25, 2024 at 6:40 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (February 25, 2024 at 5:14 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Really? Was there someone else suspected of killing David Jensen with a sock full of batteries?
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David Jensen was the fellow prisoner.
Kind of the point I was making to Nudger. Creech is being executed for killing Jensen, not for all the other stuff.
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RE: 50 years on death row
February 26, 2024 at 12:45 am
I think it's more a consolation prize than a reason.
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RE: 50 years on death row
February 26, 2024 at 11:43 am
(February 26, 2024 at 12:45 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: I think it's more a consolation prize than a reason.
I’m sure you do.
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RE: 50 years on death row
February 28, 2024 at 5:07 pm
Looks like it’s not going to happen after all. The Death Squad failed eight times to set an IV line. The death warrant will expire.
https://news.yahoo.com/idaho-set-execute...46569.html
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