Thursday, January 19, 2006

You'll Die When We Tell You To Die!

I gotta tell ya, those who love revenge sure know how to spare no charity, don't they? And these are generally the same folks who'd allow another human to suffer mindless pain until their last breath rather than support assisted suicide, correct? Jeez I'm proud to be a liberal!
Death row elder needed 2 injections: "With the help of four big prison guards, Clarence Ray Allen shuffled from his wheelchair to a gurney inside San Quentin's death chamber early Tuesday, a day after his 76th birthday.

Though legally blind, Allen raised his head to search among execution witnesses for relatives he had invited.

'Hoka hey, it's a good day to die,' Allen said in a nod to his Choctaw Indian heritage. 'Thank you very much, I love you all. Goodbye.'

Having suffered a heart attack back in September, Allen had asked prison authorities to let him die if he went into cardiac arrest before his execution, a request prison officials said they would not honor.

'At no point are we not going to value the sanctity of life,' said prison spokesman Vernell Crittendon. 'We would resuscitate him,' then execute him."


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