Thursday
24Jul2008
MENTALLY ILL BISHOP SUPPORTS OBAMA...
Thursday, July 24, 2008 at 10:11PM
It's an odd story. Before he died today death row inmate Dale Leo Bishop apologized to his victim's family, thanked America and urged people to vote for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Bishop was mentally ill. He also was a convicted killer.Yet his final wish was to see the Obamessiah in the White House. Why? Well, unlike the majority of the US people, Obama wants to abolish the death penalty. So, even murderers want to see the change-maker come to power. No wonder he is truly a citizen of the (liberal) world.
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Why are they executing someone who is Mentally Ill?
Because he is a convicted murderer.
can't post comments in the love affair post?
Troll,
click on the post title then the comments come up.
it does look a bit broken on the main page tho
Frank try leaving a comment on it see if it will take yours.
Firstly, David, Bishop didn't actually deliver the fatal blows to his victim. The fatal blows were delivered by Jessie Johnson. Johnson was not sentenced to death but Bishop was.
Secondly, executing someone who is Mentally Ill would be like executing a five year old.
he wasn't sentenced to death the article said he asked to be executed.
And if he had asked to be set free, would the Judge have agreed? Judges sentence people, they don't hand out the sentences that the Defendant wants. In reality, he is Mentally Ill and thus not in control of his actions thus he needs Medical Care not execution. Even the Pro Death Penalty lobby can't condone this one.
Sorry SEAMUS,
I never signed up to the "Sanctity of life" treaty.
I rejoice every time the lethal juice enters the veins of a worthless scumbag!
Trouble in Ireland is no matter what a person does all he or she has to do is stand before a judge and:
1) Blame their parents for being drunks.
2) Blame a drug habit for making them criminals.
3) Express genuine remorse.
4) Tell the judge that if you're convicted you can't travel to America and that wouldn't be fair to your kids because you promised to show them Disney World.
Of course, government doesn't want to spend any money on keeping someone in jail so you have a symbionic relationship, which almost guarentees no jail time, or even if convicted the judge says: 5-years with the last 7-years suspended. (DUH)
I never signed up to the "Sanctity of life" treaty.
just like cold blooded murderers.
I rejoice every time the lethal juice enters the veins of a worthless scumbag!
just like serial killers.
the world hopes and prays you dont collect roadkill.
"Mentally ill" can cover a wide range of things and he may or may not have been so when he committed the crime.
Either way though, the death penalty chills me to the bone.
Well he obviously didn't repent before he died if he's hoping for Obama to get in.