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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: thundley4 on November 04, 2009, 10:58:20 AM
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"Lawyers: Muhammad shouldn't have been allowed to represent self
Attorneys for sniper John Allen Muhammad, mastermind of the terrifying 2002 Washington area shooting spree, asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to halt their client's execution, saying he was paranoid and delusional during his trial.
Muhammad, 48, who teamed up with Lee Boyd Malvo, now 24, in a series of random shootings that left 10 people dead, suffers from mental illness and brain damage caused partly by childhood beatings, defense attorney Jonathan P. Sheldon and others on the defense team wrote.
As he prepared for his 2003 trial, Muhammad was "amnesic of the events surrounding the crimes" and thought he was being framed in an elaborate scheme, the attorneys wrote. He believed that he was a prophet and said Malvo discovered an herbal cure for AIDS. He also said the military had trained him in "urban warfare" at "secret schools." The attorneys said that because of Muhammad's brain damage, he has trouble following a logical line of thought and "lacks sufficient ability to distinguish truth from falsity."
The argument to the Supreme Court contends that attorneys Peter D. Greenspun and Jonathan Shapiro were ineffective because they failed to object to Muhammad's demand to represent himself at trial. Had the pair argued that Muhammad's mental problems made him unfit to present his own defense, there is a "reasonable probability" that the judge would have found Muhammad incompetent to stand trial altogether, Sheldon wrote." WaPo (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/03/AR2009110303408.html?hpid=moreheadlines)
Why the hell did they wait until just weeks before his execution date? It's a little late to claim insanity. :censored:
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Psychotic or not, he needs killin' ....
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Said it before, say it again.
"Some folks just need killin."
Cujo--c'mon back and threaten to call the cops again, you douchenozzle.
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Said it before, say it again.
"Some folks just need killin."
Cujo--c'mon back and threaten to call the cops again, you douchenozzle.
This idiot...the Sniper....not Cooj...needs to have his sentence meted out to him so he can get on with his flaming hot eternity as soon as effin possible.
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This idiot...the Sniper....not Cooj...needs to have his sentence meted out to him so he can get on with his flaming hot eternity as soon as effin possible.
I agree with you, but I figured if I uttered that phrase again he'd come out of his thumb-sucking corner and get all huffy again. Context, dontcha know.
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If I were on the supreme court my reply would be "Fry you nasty f'ing nutjob!"
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I agree with you, but I figured if I uttered that phrase again he'd come out of his thumb-sucking corner and get all huffy again. Context, dontcha know.
:cheersmate: Here"s hoping he slithers back in.
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So, basically, their argument is that he was incompetent. Should have been established before the trial, and if he hadn't fired his attorney, probably would have been.
Let him fry, evil should have consequences.
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It's a shame we can't ask that his 10 victims and their families be spared.
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It's a shame we can't ask that his 10 victims and their families be spared.
But he was only sending them to the loving, merciful arms of Allah's love. He was actually doing them a favor. :thatsright:
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But he was only sending them to the loving, merciful arms of Allah's love. He was actually doing them a favor. :thatsright:
Then we should be obliging and do the same for him with all expediency.
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Kill the bastard. It should have been done already.
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Spare him? Well OK then, but it sorta seems cruel and unusual, no?
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYRkSEG56b0[/youtube]
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if he's too incompetent to know right from wrong and killing him makes me feel better....what's the problem?
Thank you Ron White. :-)
Seriously, this ridiculous. He was a cold blooded killer who committed premeditated murder. Fry him.
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This idiot...the Sniper....not Cooj...needs to have his sentence meted out to him so he can get on with his flaming hot eternity as soon as effin possible.
It can never be soon enough.
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But he was only sending them to the loving, merciful arms of Allah's love. He was actually doing them a favor. :thatsright:
So when they speed up his trip to paradise to claim his virgens we are doing that a** a favor? ::)
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"Supreme Court is asked to spare sniper" ....sure thing...I can go along with that...tie him up tightly, stand him up and we'll all take turns trying to pick up the the spare with bowling balls.
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They better not.
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Update: Supreme Court denies John Allen Muhammad stay of execution.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091109/ap_on_re_us/us_sniper_execution
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Is he dead yet?
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Is he dead yet?
I believe the execution is set for 9 p.m. EST tonight.
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I believe the execution is set for 9 p.m. EST tonight.
It is....
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That waste of skin has been here too long already. Too bad his mother wasn't a "choice" type.
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I believe the execution is set for 9 p.m. EST tonight.
It is going to be a bad day for the moonbats.
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I wonder if there are any Muslim groups outside of the facility protesting the execution of this "righteous mujaheddin"?
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I wonder if there are any Muslim groups outside of the facility protesting the execution of this "righteous mujaheddin"?
I wonder how Nidal Hasan is going to fell tonight? I expect DU will be in mourning.
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I wonder if there are any Muslim groups outside of the facility protesting the execution of this "righteous mujaheddin"?
I wouldn't bet against it; if you were planning on lobbing a Gungnir a time or six, or sending Geri and Freki into their midst to have some fun, it might well be a target rich environment.
At the very least you'd probably have more than your share of moonbats and DUmbass volunteers to play spear-catcher for ya.
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He should be burning in hell right about now. Good.
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He should be burning in hell right about now. Good.
Another 90 minutes before execution.
According to Fox, he's had his last meal, and refused any spiritual person to visit.
Prison warden also released a statement that they had so many requests to see the guy executed that he had to turn many down.
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Another 90 minutes before execution.
According to Fox, he's had his last meal, and refused any spiritual person to visit.
Prison warden also released a statement that they had so many requests to see the guy executed that he had to turn many down.
Oops, thought it was last night. In any rate.........
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Oops, thought it was last night. In any rate.........
Lord Zero has a little time left to spare his life.
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Lord Zero has a little time left to spare his life.
He should be dead by now.
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I wouldn't bet against it; if you were planning on lobbing a Gungnir a time or six, or sending Geri and Freki into their midst to have some fun, it might well be a target rich environment.
At the very least you'd probably have more than your share of moonbats and DUmbass volunteers to play spear-catcher for ya.
Link (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_sniper_execution;_ylt=Atw1izf31lS4_iMqKWpASxSs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTMxNThrOXZyBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkxMTExL3VzX3NuaXBlcl9leGVjdXRpb24EY3BvcwMyBHBvcwM4BHB0A2hvbWVfY29rZQRzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b3J5BHNsawNleGVjdXRpb25zZXQ-)
A small group of death penalty opponents gathered on a grassy area near the prison and had a sign reading, "We remember the victims but not with more killing."
Beth Panilaitis, executive director of Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, said those who planned to protest understand the fear that gripped the community, and the nation, during the attacks.
"The greater metro area and the citizens of Virginia have been safe from this crime for seven years," Panilaitis said. "Incarceration has worked and life without the possibility of parole has and will continue to keep the people of Virginia safe."
'Cause no one has ever escaped from prison...
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He should be dead by now.
9:08pm EST.
Buh bye.
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The deed is done.
I hope he likes his little spot in hell.