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    I canīt imagine what this poor family has gone through. Itīs unbeleivable that the criminals can hurt these people over the years over and over again.
    No murder can be so cruel that there are not still useful imbeciles who do gloss over the murderer and apologize.

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    Attorney General: Condemned killer Richard Jordan has no legal reason to delay execution date

    The Attorney General's Office says the attorney for condemned killer Richard Gerald Jordan in a federal lawsuit challenging the state's lethal injection protocol has not cited a single reason to delay the setting of an execution date in the case.

    Jordan, 68, is Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate, having spent 38 years on death row following his capital murder conviction in the 1976 kidnapping and shooting death of Gulfport banker's wife, Edwina Marter, for a $50,000 ransom. Jordan learned Marter's husband, Charles Marter, was a senior vice president at Gulf National Bank in Gulfport, found his home address on Southern Circle in Gulfport and went there to kidnap his wife.

    Jordan posed as a General Electric repairman checking on faulty circuit breakers to convince Edwina Marter to let him inside. Marter's 3-year-old son was still asleep when Jordan forced Marter to leave and drive to Turan Road. He claimed Edwina Marter panicked and ran and he was firing a warning shot at her when the bullet hit her in the back of the head instead.

    Prosecutors say the murder was an execution-style killing.

    Jordan won three separate appeals in the case but in the end he received a death sentence. He has since exhausted his appeals, and Attorney General Jim Hood is asking the state Supreme Court to set his execution on or before Aug. 27.

    Jordan's attorney has objected to Hood's request to set an execution date. The attorney argues the state should not set any execution date until a federal judge rules on whether the state's lethal injection protocol is constitutional, something Jordan and another death row inmate are challenging.

    Jordan questions whether the state can mix a safe and effective form of the anaesthetic pentobarbital, the first drug administered in the execution process. The state Department of Corrections, Hood says, has since changed its lethal injection protocol to include the use of the sedative midazolam as a replacement drug for pentobarbital.

    Hood argues the use of the sedative has been ruled constitutional and does not violate Jordan's 8th Amendment right against cruel and unusual punishment.

    "This case has been in litigation for over ... 39 years and the time has come to carry out the lawful sentence imposed by the jury in this case," Hood said, adding the state's lethal injection cocktail has been "repeatedly examined ... and approved" by the state Supreme Court.

    Hood said in his motion Jordan is also asking the state to use a one drug protocol and identifies pentobarbital as the drug that should be used.

    "Jordan's proposal would place the state in a 'Catch 22' situation," Hood said. "The reason being that the state can no longer secure supplies of Nembutal, name brand pentobarbital in injectable form nor can it acquire compounded pentobarbital because of the actions of abolitionists in pressuring the drug companies that manufacture this drug to take steps to prevent the various state from obtaining it for use in executions. "And now Jordan wants to restrict the state to a single drug protocol and be required to use a drug that is not available. Contrary to his assertion, there is no requirement that the state change to such a protocol."

    http://www.sunherald.com/2015/08/12/...ller.html?rh=1

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    What a joke he is. Murders a woman by shooting her in the back of the head and then thinks he can pick his leathal drug. The top of my head has blown off once again. How about I go to Mississippi and give him a choice of a 32 or 45.
    Proverbs 21:15 "When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous but terror to evil doers."

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    But the execution date is still not set??

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    Does anyone have new info on this? It's only three days away from the date requested and I haven't been able to find any updates.

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    Judge orders temporary halt to Mississippi executions

    JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily blocked the state of Mississippi from carrying out executions.

    U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday in a case where three inmates have sued.

    An online federal court docket reflects that Wingate has issued a restraining order, but no written copy is available. Jim Craig, a lawyer for two inmates, says the order was given verbally.

    A spokeswoman for the Mississippi Department of Corrections says the state will appeal.

    Prisoners say they face risks of excruciating pain during an execution, which violates the U.S. Constitution's Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.

    The lawsuit says there's no guarantee that Mississippi can mix a safe and effective anesthetic to knock out prisoners, and that prisoners could remain conscious during execution.

    http://bigstory.ap.org/article/d234c...ppi-executions
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    Well one can almost say with certainty victims mostly remain conscious during their murders and they die in more gruesome circumstances so what exactly is their point. I am not advocating a painful death for anyone however a qualified pharmacist would know at what amount would render a prisoner unconscious and for how long before it would begin to wear off.

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    Absolute truth. These Federal Judges have their own personal agendas. They are ignoring the victims right to justice and a jurys verdict.
    Proverbs 21:15 "When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous but terror to evil doers."

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    The 5th Circuit lifted the injunction yesterday that was granted by the district court.

    http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions...-60604-CV1.pdf

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    Appeals Court Opens Way for Mississippi to Resume Executions

    Mississippi could be able to resume executions early next month after an appeals court denied to rehear a case challenging a drug the state plans to use in lethal injections.

    The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday denied the motion by Ricky Chase, Richard Jordan and Thomas Loden Jr. to have the entire court reconsider a February ruling by a three-judge appeals panel. Jordan and Loden have exhausted their appeals, meaning Attorney General Jim Hood could ask the state Supreme Court to set execution dates.

    The lawsuit is one of a series of continuing legal skirmishes nationwide over lethal injection drugs.

    Hood's office didn't immediately respond to requests for comment. Jim Craig, a lawyer for Chase and Jordan, said it would be Hood's "usual practice" to immediately seek an execution date. However, he noted that the court hadn't acted on a request for an execution date for Jordan for nearly a month when the federal suit was filed.

    The judgment will be published July 5, dissolving a freeze on executions by U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate. The three-judge panel overruled Wingate in February, saying questions about whether Mississippi is using drugs that don't meet state legal requirements belong in state court.

    "Plaintiffs face a challenge here," Circuit Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod wrote in a revised opinion released Monday. "Mississippi's sovereign immunity prevents a federal court from issuing an injunction against state officials solely to require them to adhere to state law."

    Mississippi law requires a three-drug process, with an "ultra-short-acting barbiturate" followed by a paralyzing agent and a drug that stops an inmate's heart. But Mississippi and other states have increasing struggled to obtain such drugs since 2010, as manufacturers refuse to sell them for executions.

    Now, Mississippi says it intends to use another sedative, midazolam, which doesn't render someone unconscious as quickly. The U.S. Supreme Court in 2015 upheld as constitutional Oklahoma's use of midazolam.

    Craig said he'll seek a fresh block on executions.

    "I suspect we'll be going back to Judge Wingate to ask him to consider our injunction on the other parts of the lawsuit," he said.

    Midazolam leaves an inmate at risk of severe pain during execution, Craig argues, violating the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution's bar on cruel and unusual punishment.

    Craig continues to question why Mississippi doesn't adopt a one-drug method of execution, as Texas, Missouri and Georgia have done. Inmates represented by Craig are pursuing legal actions against Texas, Missouri and Georgia trying to find out where those states get pentobarbital.

    Since the court overruled only a preliminary injunction, Wingate could also still decide the case in favor of the prisoners. A trial is set for October.

    Mississippi lawmakers earlier this year passed a law saying names of prison employees at an execution and in-state providers of lethal drugs must remain secret. The bill also makes secret the names of execution witnesses who are members of a victim's or condemned inmate's family. Lawmakers dropped a proposal to allow executions by firing squad.

    http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/a...tions-40173308
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