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Texas Judge Says, ‘We Close at 5′, Refuses to Accept Death Row Inmate’s Appeal, He’s Executed a Few Hours Later

2007-10-21
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Texas criminal defense attorney Paul Stuckle, who specializes in defending men falsely accused of domestic violence or sexual abuse, wrote me recently concerning a Texas judge who is under fire for closing her office in the face of a Death Row inmate’s attorneys emergency request to stay his execution. Within hours after the doors closed, the inmate was executed.

According to the Texas Lawyer article below, “The U.S. Supreme Court had agreed earlier on the day that Richard was executed to consider a Kentucky case, Baze v. Rees, regarding whether the lethal injection method of execution constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.”

I have no idea as to the merits of the emergency request itself, but I share Stuckle’s revulsion at many of the barbaric (and anti-male, and racist) aspects of our criminal justice system, including this incident. Stuckle and I are particularly concerned over the lack of due process afforded men falsely accused of domestic violence.

I also oppose “Three Strikes” laws (for my views on the subject, see my His Side with Glenn Sacks show ‘Three Strikes’ Laws Hurt Low Income, Minority Men.)

Since I’m on the subject, I also oppose the Death Penalty (even though most of those on Death Row have committed terrible crimes) and the War on Drugs (see the His Side with Glenn Sacks show Warehousing Minority Males, or click here).

Anyway, the article Twenty Lawyers Join in Complaint to be Filed Against CCA Presiding Judge Sharon Keller (Texas Lawyer, 10/10/07) explains the case in greater detail. The petition against the judge can be found here. It reads:

“If you are as shocked as we were by Judge Sharon Keller saying ‘We close at 5′ and refusing to accept an appeal 20 minutes after 5 PM by lawyers representing a man about to be executed, then sign on to this complaint. We will submit this complaint to the State Commission on Judicial Conduct on October 30, 2007.”

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  • GreatMRNI

    “Yet Mary Winkler could kill her husband in cold blood, cry “abuse”, and receive less than 80 days of jail time.”

    Excellent point!

    Apparently murder is legal if you’re a woman. Abortion laws also confirm this fact. There is no justice in America, just ‘ice’ cold anti-male bias.

  • GreatMRNI

    Yet Mary Winkler could kill her husband in cold blood, cry “abuse”, and receive less than 80 days of jail time.

    Excellent point!

    Appearently murder is legal if your a women. Abortion laws also confirms this fact. There is no justice in America, just ‘ice’ cold anti-male bias tolds males.

  • steven deluca

    It costs more to pay for the trial and execution of a man (and it’s always men unless, like the pretty “born-again” Christian in Florida whose name escapes me, but her use of a pick, against a woman, then saying she felt a sexual thrill was far to masculine an image to allow her to live… ) then it does for life imprisonment. As a tax payer that’s a problem for me but not near as bad as knowing that innocent people are being killed and their families suffer forever.

    A bullet is only a buck and that logic has been shared before, but we are not that kind of society, most of the time. But as long as we value the life of our brother, or father, or male friend, and realize that not only do some men die who are innocent and we later learn it was so, many men are likely being killed who didn’t do the crime and we never have learned the truth.

    The “wee bit of pain” bit is a joke. What isn’t a joke is that it’s not just the prisoner who suffers, but his children, his parents too.

    I know it’s macho to want to do the eye for an eye bit. I am as bad as any when it comes to that. Killl my child and the torture techniques I know about about come to mind quickly. But to teach that taking a life is macho, cool, is part of the reason that those who do so do so. (I have worked as a cop, social worker, and prison guard too so don’t lay the liberal softy thing on me if you don’t like my views)

    I don’t have a problem with people who have really thought it out and still want to execute others but I have met too many who say “I would pull the switch” or “castrate” or “torture” when they are clueless about what that really means. We want to castrate men who sexually abuse with no words to describe what we would do to women, the double standard exists in the words we use, the ideas we have, the punishment we inflict, when it comes to women and men. Male lives ARE valued less and the attitude is, well, we might get it wrong sometime, but it’s just a man. I still back “It’s better for a guilty man to go free than an innocent man to die.” This isn’t rocket science.

    Someday, just as we look back on the “loonies” and how people went on paid tours to laugh at those who were mentally ill, some generation will look back on those who are so quick to want to kill (although they wouldn’t do it with their own hands or really give it much thought) and see them as “the loonies ” …

    We create the monsters in our society by devaluing the lives of boys and men, by allowing women to beat children and pretending only men do, by valuing male lives (particularly if black) as worth less than a pretty young female, and those men who would be hesitant to hang a pretty black female show us how big their cocks are when it’s time to kill a man.

    Our death penalty has been racists and likely still is, it’s sexist, and they too often get it wrong. How can anyone support that?

    SD

  • fourthwire

    I have damned little sympathy for most of those individuals sitting on Death Row in any state, but Glenn’s point rings true.

    Why aren’t the number of WOMEN sitting on Death Row PROPORTIONATE to the number of women how committed murder?

    And could you imagine the outcry during those extremely rare instances when a female killer actually IS executed, if her last-minute appeal were to be turned down because the presiding judge’s office “closes at five”?

    That judge would be looking for a new job before long….. and the feminazis would be certain to see to that!

    Our criminal “justice” system is throughly misandric – quick to arrest, quick to prosecute, quick to imprison, and far more certain to execute MEN…… and sometimes their innocence is no defense, particularly if they cannot afford expensive lawyers.

    Texas Judge Sharon Keller’s message is extraordinarily clear: men’s lives are cheap…….. certainly not worth keeping the shop open.

    Yet Mary Winkler could kill her husband in cold blood, cry “abuse”, and receive less than 80 days of jail time.

  • http://www.antipeonage.0catch.com Roger Knight

    The judge would have done better to have accepted the brief, read it, and then rejected it as being without merit.

    I am a little tired of the hypersensitivity to the possibility that a condemned inmate will suffer a wee bit of pain on the way to the next world when said inmate suffered no such sensitivity himself or herself when dispatching a human being to the great beyond.

    Knowing how Texas feels about murderers, this judge could run for Governor and win, now that she’s done this.

  • Ouderkirk

    I support the death penalty and with respect to the reason that this was being filed because lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment flies in the face of the purpose of “punishment” not to mention the cruel and unusual death of the victim of said murderer.

    While I have a problem with this judge saying she would not accept the appeal after 5PM. She should have refused the appeal because it is without merit.







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