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Originally Posted by Ian Beardsley
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Here is the link:
http://ga1.org/campaign/clemency?rk=K1LuizK1XqNNW
The guy almost carries the same last name as me, but that is not why I write about it. Perhaps many of you already got wind of this, but I thought I would post it anyway, because I think it is awful, executing a brain damaged man who if they were a loud to bring that up in the trial, would have never been up for execution.  |
I'd need more background info before coming to a decision. He is only worthy of the crime IMO if he is able to understand right from wrong, such as killing=bad. If he is dangerous even in prison, maybe the death penalty is justifiable. |
"maybe justifiable if..." you might have to argue that to some as there are those that don't believe in capitol punishment under any circumstance: i.e. to punish death with death is only to set the wrong example as a society, and only as such be the cause of more deaths.
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Not everyone is against capital punishment. The poster simply asked for more background because she is not automatically anti-death penalty and needs to apply her own values to the situation.
I have been reading about him, he had already served a prison sentence for a previous murder, was released, then killed again. Also the nature of the brain damage is not mentioned, unless it interferes with his ability to determine that murder is wrong, I see no reason not to move forward with the execution.
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Rutherford strangled Benjamin with the wire and his hand before Beardslee punched her, helped pull the wire tight around her throat and then slit her throat twice. Beardslee pulled her pants down to make it look like a sexual assault.
At the time of the killing, Beardslee was on parole after serving seven years in a Missouri prison for strangling and stabbing Laura Griffin in her bathtub.
Beardslee’s defense team argue he has been a model prisoner but Murray replied it is only due to the restrictive conditions of death row. Claims Beardslee is brain damaged are also bunk, he said, citing his high school grades, completion of courses in prison and high IQ score.
“It appears that his alleged mental problems only exhibit themselves when he is murdering women,” Murray wrote.
http://www.smdailyjournal.org/articl...&storyID=38526
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