Judge orders anti-psychotic medication forcibly administered so man will be competant to be executed.
In-f^(%ing-credible
.The defense lawyer Jack Strickland said the following:
Quote: "The whole idea of holding somebody down and injecting them so that we can then say, with a straight face, this person is now competent so we can kill them, I think that smacks of an Orwellian-Soviet-style approach to criminal justice.''
Smacks of? Jack as I remember 1984 that was EXACTLY how it happened. Winston is caught as a Thought Criminal, tortured beyond endurance untill he litterally accepts Big Brothers reality, and then executed for having committed the crime in the first place.
The soviets to my recollection didn't much care weather or not you understood the charges against you, they just shot your a$$ dead.
I laughed long and loud when I read this. It was too astonishing for any other response. The man is mentally incompetant to understand what is happening to him, and therfore execution is cruel and unusual. But we can force him to take pills to get around that constitutional restriction. Wow. The future is now folks. Orwell was right, he was merely off by about twenty years.
Alexei
posted by Alexios at 12:27 PM
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If it is a question of competency to stand trial, did they take this Orwellian step prior to the trial, so that the accused man could understand what he was being charged with, and for which he was facing the death penalty?
If not, why not?
I am not, as a general rule, automatically opposed to the death penalty. However, it does not seem that this is a time to be applying it. Is this man a danger to society and to himself? If not, what is served by his execution, as opposed to his incarceration?
On the other hand, the approach of the techniques and practices of the Soviet "Gulag Archipelago" in this land at this time really shouldn't surprise anyone who has any sense of the movement of history, and the coming Apocalypse...
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