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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: thundley4 on February 14, 2010, 07:44:35 PM
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Sun Feb-14-10 08:07 PM
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deaf, blind, crippled, mentally ill, dementia death row inmate dead at 94
Edited on Sun Feb-14-10 08:07 PM by Liberal_in_LA
Oldest U.S. death row inmate dead at 94
FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) — The oldest death row inmate in the United States, who spent most of his life behind bars, has died of natural causes at age 94.
Viva Leroy Nash died late Friday at the state's prison complex in Florence, said an Arizona Department of Corrections spokesman.
Nash was still on death row, but spokesman Barrett Marson said Sunday he did not know if Nash died in his cell or in a medical facility at the prison.
Nash had been imprisoned almost continuously since he was 15 and was deaf, mostly blind, crippled, mentally ill and had dementia, said his attorney, Thomas Phalen. State prosecutors were appealing a federal ruling that Nash might not be competent to the U.S. Supreme Court at the time of his death, Phalen said.
Nash was born in 1915 and had a criminal record dating to the 1930s. Phalen said his research shows that Nash grew up in southern Utah and was sent to the federal prison in Leavenworth, Kan., in 1930 for an armed robbery.
He spent 25 years in prison for shooting a Connecticut police officer in 1947. In 1977, Nash was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for a robbery and murder in Salt Lake City but escaped from a prison work crew in October 1982.
Three weeks later, on Nov. 3, 1982, Nash went into a coin shop in Phoenix and demanded money from an employee, Greggory West.
Nash shot West three times, killing him. Another employee was in the line of fire but was not hit, according to the corrections department. As Nash ran away, a nearby shop owner pointed a gun at him and told him to stop. Nash grabbed the weapon and the two men struggled over it until police arrived and arrested him.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-02-14-oldest-d...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7715114
virgogal (1000+ posts) Sun Feb-14-10 08:12 PM
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1. Unbelievable !
I agree. Justice delayed is justice denied. This POS probably received better care in the prison, than most similar patients would receive in nursing homes.
There was just the two posts so far.
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He should have been executed a long time ago
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He should have been executed a long time ago
No kidding.
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He should have been executed a long time ago
Yep.
Escaped from a prison work crew while on a life sentence for murder? This guy should have been planted a few different times.
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You just knew a true member of the democrat party had to show up sooner or later:
alarimer (1000+ posts) Sun Feb-14-10 09:30 PM
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6. What is the point of keeping someone like that on death row?
I mean, they should have put him in some kind of care facility instead.
The utter lack of compassion in some here is appalling.
Law and order assholes.
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You just knew a true member of the democrat party had to show up sooner or later:
They don't continually disappoint, don't they?
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alarimer (1000+ posts) Sun Feb-14-10 09:30 PM
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6. What is the point of keeping someone like that on death row?
I mean, they should have put him in some kind of care facility instead.
The utter lack of compassion in some here is appalling.
Law and order assholes.
Ask his victims what they think asshole. Oh that's right! You can't... because they are DEAD!