Deanna's Daydreamer
07-25-2009, 07:14 PM
Here is where Pennsylvania's criminal justice system is at! Slow, broken, ineffective, and incompetent. If you don't think that big government will pluck up your health care? Take a look at how well they run a justice system!
Absolutely PATHETIC!
Absolutely PITIFUL! The judges in this suck ass state need to be horsewhipped into actually delivering the justice that taxpaying, lawabiding citizens deserve!
Absolutely F* PATHETIC!
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Posted: July 25
Updated: Today at 4:04 AM
Natural causes the biggest threat to state’s death-row inmates
RON TODT Associated Press Writer
PHILADELPHIA — Ten years ago, Gary Heidnik had two slices of cheese pizza and a couple of cups of black coffee, met with his daughter, and spent the rest of the day on his bed or pacing his cell. That night, he was given a lethal injection for imprisoning, torturing and murdering two women in the basement of his Philadelphia home.
The last person put to death in Pennsylvania was double-murderer Gary Heidnik of Philadelphia in 1999.
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/weird/heidnik/index_1.html
In the decade since, Pennsylvania has executed no one. Its death row is the fourth-largest in the nation, yet the 218 men and five women are far more likely to die of natural causes than injected chemicals, gas, electricity or bullets.
Since the commonwealth reinstated the death penalty in 1978, three inmates have been executed; all had dropped their appeals. At least seven times that number have passed away, most of natural causes such as cancer or heart failure, while awaiting execution, according to an informal Corrections Department tally.
To find a Pennsylvania inmate unwillingly put to death, you have to go back almost half a century to the last use of the electric chair.
“It is indicative of a split — people want the death penalty but don’t want a lot of executions,” said Richard Dieter of the Washington-based Death Penalty Information Center.
(he's full of shit, and his 'organization' is nothing but a rabid group of anti DP activists, and yet they are quoted as if they are a think tank)
It wasn’t always so in Pennsylvania. The commonwealth has recorded more than a thousand executions in its history, starting with public hangings in the time of the early colonists.
http://www.timesleader.com/news/Natural_causes_the_biggest_threat_to_state_rsquo_s _death-row_inmates_07-25-2009.html
Absolutely PATHETIC!
Absolutely PITIFUL! The judges in this suck ass state need to be horsewhipped into actually delivering the justice that taxpaying, lawabiding citizens deserve!
Absolutely F* PATHETIC!
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Posted: July 25
Updated: Today at 4:04 AM
Natural causes the biggest threat to state’s death-row inmates
RON TODT Associated Press Writer
PHILADELPHIA — Ten years ago, Gary Heidnik had two slices of cheese pizza and a couple of cups of black coffee, met with his daughter, and spent the rest of the day on his bed or pacing his cell. That night, he was given a lethal injection for imprisoning, torturing and murdering two women in the basement of his Philadelphia home.
The last person put to death in Pennsylvania was double-murderer Gary Heidnik of Philadelphia in 1999.
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/weird/heidnik/index_1.html
In the decade since, Pennsylvania has executed no one. Its death row is the fourth-largest in the nation, yet the 218 men and five women are far more likely to die of natural causes than injected chemicals, gas, electricity or bullets.
Since the commonwealth reinstated the death penalty in 1978, three inmates have been executed; all had dropped their appeals. At least seven times that number have passed away, most of natural causes such as cancer or heart failure, while awaiting execution, according to an informal Corrections Department tally.
To find a Pennsylvania inmate unwillingly put to death, you have to go back almost half a century to the last use of the electric chair.
“It is indicative of a split — people want the death penalty but don’t want a lot of executions,” said Richard Dieter of the Washington-based Death Penalty Information Center.
(he's full of shit, and his 'organization' is nothing but a rabid group of anti DP activists, and yet they are quoted as if they are a think tank)
It wasn’t always so in Pennsylvania. The commonwealth has recorded more than a thousand executions in its history, starting with public hangings in the time of the early colonists.
http://www.timesleader.com/news/Natural_causes_the_biggest_threat_to_state_rsquo_s _death-row_inmates_07-25-2009.html