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February 2, 2006

Michael Anthony Taylor Deserves Worse Than an Injection!

by @ 6:46 pm. Filed under Judiciary, Nuts on Parade

So Samuel Alito took the more Liberal side of a death penalty case. Looking at a report of the case, I feel he got this one wrong.

Execution suspense builds, then wanes


Victim was 15

Taylor was convicted of killing 15-year-old Ann Harrison, who was waiting for a school bus in Kansas City when he and an accomplice kidnapped her in 1989. Taylor pleaded guilty and said he was high on crack cocaine at the time.

The rulings in Taylor’s favor late Wednesday followed a flurry of appeals and rushed hearings in the days since a federal appeals court in St. Louis ordered the case expedited on Sunday.

In two frenzied days of filings Tuesday and Wednesday, Missouri twice asked the justices to intervene and permit the execution, while Taylor’s lawyers filed two more appeals seeking delays.

The high court rejected Taylor’s appeal that argued that Missouri’s death penalty system is racist. Taylor is black and his victim was white.

But it did not stand in the way of an appeals court’s decision to hear the claim that lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment, a claim also used by two Florida death-row inmates that won stays from the Supreme Court over the past week.

The court has agreed to use one of the cases to clarify how inmates may bring last-minute challenges to the way they will be put to death.


Alito splits from conservatives

New Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, handling his first case, split with the court’s conservatives in refusing to let Missouri execute Taylor.

If it were a state court that ordered the stay of execution I would say that the US Supreme Court has no business hearing the case at all. But it was the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that ordered the stay of execution. It would have been fully within the jurisdiction of the US Supreme Court to overrule their decision. To even dream of considering this last minute appeal on the grounds of a lethal injection being “cruel and unusual punishment” is just insane! This man killed a young girl. He confessed to doing it while strung out on crack. So what if he feels pain while he dies. For what he did he should get much worse. And all this crying about discrimination and past slavery, what a crock!

Appeals court again blocks Taylor?s execution


?The death penalty as practiced in the state of Missouri discriminates against African-Americans such as (Taylor), such that it is a badge of slavery,? the justices were told in a filing by Taylor?s lawyer, John William Simon.

Michael Anthony Taylor was never a slave. For a murdering crack head to even try and associate himself with people that had to endure forced slavery is a disrespect to their struggle. I’m sure any part of his DNA that has any ancestral connection to a slave would feel disgraced, if they knew an offspring connected with their blood ended up being a murdering dope head!

I don’t think Alito’s view of this case means he will be going Liberal. I don’t even think it means he will be a swing vote. He’s shown some lenancy on another death penalty case which had different circumstances. I think he just wants to be sure everything is double-checked.

Now given Samuel Alito has once again moved to hold off the execution of a Black man, will the NAACP congratulate him? Of course not. They did not like Alito before and they will continue to paint him as a racist. Because they are a pawn for the Democratic party. So they must show dislike towards anyone connected with George W. Bush and the Republican party.



One Response to “Michael Anthony Taylor Deserves Worse Than an Injection!”

  1. jonswift Says:

    We must impeach Justice Alito before it is too late.

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