No mercy.

He showed them!

we have become such an instant society...

Guess he didn't like the food.

I guess he asked himself, "what would Goering do?"

And that's what we call "empowerment".

It seems he really finagled the oyster.

That's pretty cruel and unusual

Maybe he just wanted to be in control of it. Or he wanted to save taxpayer dollars.

However, I'm sure his relatives will still sue the state for not checking in on him more, etc.

And another thing...
I move that we change the location to Texas so we can blame Bush!!

He had been on death row since November 2003 for killing Youngstown Patrolman Michael Hartzell, 26, as the officer investigated a shooting.

2003? what a tard. that guy had a good 20-30 years ahead of him before even being considered being put to death.

Meh.

Saves the taxpayers quite a bit of money caring for the condemned guy. Good for him, deciding to do society a favor finally.

fx: sound of smallest violin playing

Say hi to the last-place Derby horse for me! (It IS Kentucky, after all.)

he was later quoted as saying "i want a no mercy, i have a no mercy, mercy aint for me, mercys like something i dont want, i get a no mercy, mercy me please kill me, mercy aint no thang but a chicken wang, my mother gave me no mercy, my father gave me no mercy, mercys like not something i get, no no mercy mercy no, yes mercy? no mercy bad mercy, mercy mercy mercy mercy mercy mercy mercy...mercy"

I'm so tired of this "wait in line" culture. Good jorb.

2003? what a tard. that guy had a good 20-30 years ahead of him before even being considered being put to death.

Maybe that's why he killed himself. I don't think 20 years in jail, with a ticking clock over your head, leads to a very fun life. Someone once said the Death Row is only a fitting punishment for someone who locked their victim up for several years, and remined them daily of just when he was going to kill them. I'm not sure I agree with that parallel, but those 20 years in prison aren't exactly the high-point of lfie.

What happens when you attempt to kill yourself the day before your execution (and fail)? How much effort do they expend in reviving you so can be legally killed the next day?

They should give him a posthumous acquittal for saving the state all of that money.

He had been on death row since November 2003 for killing Youngstown Patrolman Michael Hartzell, 26, as the officer investigated a shooting.

Pardon me for not having a bit of farking sympathy.
Thanks for saving taxpayer dollars, though!

"What happens when you attempt to kill yourself the day before your execution (and fail)? How much effort do they expend in reviving you so can be legally killed the next day?"

To answer your question, there would be plenty of bleeding hearts working/wanting to spend lots of tax payor dollars (i.e. other people's money), to give him the best possible medical care.

Such a "go getter", by the way what the fark happend to sentenced on a monday and strung up on a tuesday?

Why is that weird? It doesn't happen more because they go to great lengths to prevent it.

I think folks on death row should have their cells stocked with razor blades and rope. Also, "music" by Celine Dion should be played 24/7. That would save taxpayers millions of dollars a year. 10+ years for the appeals process is complete bullshiat.

Just living in Kentucky is enough to make someone want to commit suicide.

He had been on death row since November 2003 for killing Youngstown Patrolman Michael Hartzell, 26, as the officer investigated a shooting

Am I the only one who has problems with this concept? Officer arrives to find a dead guy. Officer investigates. Officer gets shot by person who did not commit original shooting.

Well shiat, I guess we should give him some small thanks for that. It's not bad enough that we have to execute people, we gotta make them wait 10+ years in a cell before we get around to it. I'd much prefer that the truly guilty go out nice & quick like this, it saves everyone more anguish and expense.

Oh, and we should re-institute hanging, it's the most humane.

Seriously.

panxerox

They only still allow that here in TX

Wyodiver: I think Celine Dion music constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.

http://www.blueriver.net/~sheriff/Fugitives/Fugitives.html
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Isn't suicide illegal?

It's interesting how the Japanese do it. They give a time *frame* for your execution of about a *year*. And any time during that *year*, without notifying anybody else, they come get you and execute you. Only after you are dead do they tell your family.

It's almost a Schrodinger's cat thing.

Not everyone on death row is guilty of the crimes they were convicted for. Does anyone remember the Justice Project in Illinois? Yes, this asshat may have done it, but there's a reason we have due process, and a reason why lynch mobs went out of style...

/frightened by bloodthirsty Totalfarkers...

...and rereading, by the litefarkers as well.

For some reason i don't find this all that weird

More like

2005-05-07 05:33:26 PM Fusor

http://www.blueriver.net/~sheriff/Fugitives/Fugitives.html
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The music of that page is just friggin insane

We should at least bring back the gallows in cases involving treason.



/paging Sgt. Akbar

This man was a human being who apparently demonstrated real remorse at having killed a police officer. He had the integrity both to ask for death and to deliver it.

Comments about stocking death row cells with razor blades and rope define the ignorance that allows truly stupid people to support capital punishment.

This inmate made his own choice - that death was better than life on death row. This does not support the point of view that his life was without value.

As an adament pro-lifer I'll say he deserved it....now only if we can get people to stop aborting their babies?


/baiting? You betcha!

I'm anti death penalty, but I have no problems with a death row inmate doing themself in. The only problem is that the prisoner is a ward of the state, so they might be subject to problems if the inmate kills themself. There should be a rule that excupates the state if that happens.

Oh well. It seems that this guy falls in the category of individuals who was truly guilty, so you won't find any tears coming out of my eyes on this one.

He's a death-row hero... got stars in his eyes.