Postponed execution

[WickedSmurf]

Death Row prisoner 'disappointed' after execution halted

A Death Row prisoner has told of his "disappointment" after officials halted his execution 20 minutes before he was to be killed.

Kevin Lee Zimmerman, 42, says he had finished his "last meal" when the US Supreme Court sent word that he could not be executed.

The Texas execution was delayed due to a legal row over one of the drugs used to carry out the death sentence.

He was to have been put to death in Huntsville, Texas, for a fatal stabbing and robbery at a motel in 1987.

"I'm disappointed," Zimmerman told a Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokeswoman.

"I was ready to go. The stay only means 18 more months of this crap."

The US Supreme Court halted the execution of a condemned man after a lawsuit challenged one of the drugs used to carry out the death sentence.

Texas, the first state to execute condemned inmates by injection, uses a combination of three drugs: pancuronium bromide, the barbiturate sodium thiopental and potassium chloride, which causes cardiac arrest.

Citing the constitutional protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the lawsuit sought to stop use of pancuronium bromide - a drug that paralyses muscles.


Story filed: 11:23 Thursday 11th December 2003


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Isn't this cruelty? First set up a day and time and then 20 minutes before the actual execution postpon it? Your opinions please.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

The cell should be suspended over the side of a cliff. The floor of the cell should open like bomb bay doors. Simple.

 

[Wolfe Tone]

It is texas I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to find someone with a gun to put a bullet in him rather than all this hassle.

 

[Enemy Ace]

Originally posted by WickedSmurf
Death Row prisoner 'disappointed' after execution halted

A Death Row prisoner has told of his "disappointment" after officials halted his execution 20 minutes before he was to be killed.

Kevin Lee Zimmerman, 42, says he had finished his "last meal" when the US Supreme Court sent word that he could not be executed.

The Texas execution was delayed due to a legal row over one of the drugs used to carry out the death sentence.

He was to have been put to death in Huntsville, Texas, for a fatal stabbing and robbery at a motel in 1987.

"I'm disappointed," Zimmerman told a Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokeswoman.

"I was ready to go. The stay only means 18 more months of this crap."

The US Supreme Court halted the execution of a condemned man after a lawsuit challenged one of the drugs used to carry out the death sentence.

Texas, the first state to execute condemned inmates by injection, uses a combination of three drugs: pancuronium bromide, the barbiturate sodium thiopental and potassium chloride, which causes cardiac arrest.

Citing the constitutional protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the lawsuit sought to stop use of pancuronium bromide - a drug that paralyses muscles.


Story filed: 11:23 Thursday 11th December 2003


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Isn't this cruelty? First set up a day and time and then 20 minutes before the actual execution postpon it? Your opinions please.

This man should be so lucky. They still stone people to death in some countries like Pakistan, Iran, and others. Perhaps, he would prefer their expedient forms of execution.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

A wise man once said: Everybody must get stoned.

 

[Aphex_Twin]

Making executions more "humane" would be pointless. The end result is still the same.

 

[Simon Darkshade]

As one has said previously, lethal injection is used as it is humane to the audience and the bleeding hearts. He could never have a legal argument against proper hanging.

 

[Archer 007]

Lets just axe the backwards practice that is the death penalty.

 

[andrewgprv]

Originally posted by Enemy Ace


This man should be so lucky. They still stone people to death in some countries like Pakistan, Iran, and others. Perhaps, he would prefer their expedient forms of execution.

This is also in response to your post on the discrimination thread.

We all enjoy superb human rights in comparison to many places in the middle east or africa etc... However America is a western country maybe you should start comparing us to our peers.

 

[Enemy Ace]

Our "peers" are inferior in their practices, as well. We can discuss any other nation on this Earth, however they still have less freedom and more real discrimination than we experience, here.

 

[andrewgprv]

Originally posted by Enemy Ace
Our "peers" are inferior in their practices, as well. We can discuss any other nation on this Earth, however they still have less freedom and more real discrimination than we experience, here.

I fail to see how I have more freedom here then I would in somewhere like Canada or the Netherlands. There I could marry the person I love or smoke a bowl withour fearing inprisonment.

 

[Enemy Ace]

I would have no problem with legalizing Marijuana use and possession, provided that use takes place in the privacy of the home, in the absence of minors.