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Thread: Wesley Ira Purkey - Federal Execution - July 16, 2020

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    I read in another article this sorry excuse for a human being plans to seek clemency from Trump. Can't wait to see how that works for him.
    Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next products.

    "They will hurt you. They will hurt your grandma, these people. The root cause of this is there's no discipline in the homes, they don't go to school, you know, they live off the government, no personal accountability, and they just beat people up for no reason, and it's disgusting." - Former Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters

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    Lol. Yes good luck with that.

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    Federal death row inmate denied stay of execution

    By Dave Stafford
    Indiana Lawyer

    A man sentenced to die by lethal injection at the federal prison in Terre Haute was denied a stay of execution in federal court Wednesday, narrowing his remaining appeals and potentially setting the stage for his execution scheduled next month to proceed.

    Wesley Ira Purkey was sentenced to death in a Missouri federal court 16 years ago for the kidnapping, rape and murder of 16-year-old Jennifer Long. He was accused of dismembering, burning and then dumping the teen’s body in a septic pond. Purkey was also convicted in a Kansas state court of killing an 80-year-old woman who suffered from polio.

    Purkey, who is from Kansas, is slated to be executed Dec. 13 and is among the first federal death row inmates for whom execution dates were set when U.S. Attorney General William Barr this summer announced the resumption of the federal death penalty.

    District Judge James P. Hanlon denied Purkey’s habeas petition filed after his petitions for post-conviction relief had been denied.

    “Mr. Purkey cannot bring a successive § 2255 motion in the court of conviction, so he seeks relief from this Court in the form of a 28 U.S.C. § 2241 petition that raises eight claims. These claims, however, cannot be raised and adjudicated under § 2241 because they do not fall within any of the limited circumstances the Seventh Circuit has recognized when a federal prisoner may challenge a conviction and sentence by way of § 2241,” Hanlon wrote. “Moreover, there is not a structural problem with § 2255 when applied to Mr. Purkey’s case. For these reasons, Mr. Purkey’s § 2241 action must be dismissed and his petition for a writ of habeas corpus denied.”

    Purkey raised arguments that the death penalty is unconstitutional under the Sixth and Eighth Amendment; that he suffers from severe mental illness; and that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to challenge a juror and by submitting an affidavit with false and misleading information, among other objections.

    Hanlon found these arguments outside of the narrow scope for habeas relief permitted under 7th Circuit jurisprudence. “… Mr. Purkey does not advance any basis for extending those precedents to these claims,” the judge wrote from the Southern District Court bench in Terre Haute. “Accordingly, his petition is denied with prejudice. … Because the Court has resolved Mr. Purkey’s claims, his motion to stay his execution … is denied as moot.”

    https://www.theindianalawyer.com/art...y-of-execution
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    Nice to see that the courts are willing to greenlight these. Purkey is in the 8th Circuit, so I don't think his odds are very good. I'm cautiously optimistic about the upcoming federal executions.
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    "They will hurt you. They will hurt your grandma, these people. The root cause of this is there's no discipline in the homes, they don't go to school, you know, they live off the government, no personal accountability, and they just beat people up for no reason, and it's disgusting." - Former Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters

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    Given it’s a close run battle between Purkey and Bourgeois as to who the worst is, this is good.
    Violence and death seem to be the only answers that some people understand.

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    Judge halts all scheduled federal executions

    By JOSH GERSTEIN
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    A judge has blocked the scheduled executions of four federal death row inmates, effectively freezing the Trump administration’s effort to resume imposing the death penalty in a federal system that saw its last execution more than a decade and a half ago.

    The order issued Wednesday night by U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan halts four executions that U.S. officials planned to carry out starting next month.

    The only other execution that officials had put on the calendar, also for December, was blocked last month by the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.

    In July, Attorney General William Barr announced plans to resume executions at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind. He suggested the practice had been allowed to languish for too long and said it would deliver justice in cases involving what he called the “worst criminals.”

    Barr announced a new federal death penalty protocol that would use a single drug, pentobarbital, in lieu of a three-drug “cocktail” employed in the most recent federal executions.

    In the wake of Barr’s announcement, a series of death row prisoners joined a long-dormant legal challenge to that previous method and asked Chutkan to block their execution under the new protocol until their legal challenges to it were full adjudicated.

    In her ruling Wednesday, Chutkan said the death row inmates appeared likely to prevail on their arguments that the new protocol violates longstanding federal law because the procedures to be used vary from state law. A 1994 federal statute says federal executions shall be carried out “in the manner prescribed by the law of the State in which the sentence is imposed.”

    Justice Department attorneys argued that the use of lethal injection was sufficiently similar regardless of the drugs used or other details of the execution protocol, but Chutkan ruled that the law likely requires federal authorities to adopt the same drugs or drugs and a similar process.

    “Requiring the federal government to follow more than just the state’s method of execution is consistent with other sections of the statute and with historical practices. For all these reasons, this court finds that the FDPA [Federal Death Penalty Act] does not authorize the creation of a single implementation procedure for federal executions,” wrote the judge, an appointee of President Barack Obama.

    “There is no statute that gives the [Bureau of Prisons] or DOJ the authority to establish a single implementation procedure for all federal executions,” Chutkan added.

    In granting the injunction, Chutkan noted the obvious fact that permitting the executions would deprive the inmates of their ability to pursue their legal challenges. She also turned aside the Justice Department’s claim that time was of the essence, noting that revisions to the federal death penalty protocol languished for years after shortages developed of at least one drug used in the earlier cocktail.

    The earliest of the five executions that federal officials planned to carry out in the coming weeks was scheduled for Dec. 9.

    “While the government does have a legitimate interest in the finality of criminal proceedings, the eight years that it waited to establish a new protocol undermines its arguments regarding the urgency and weight of that interest,” the judge wrote.

    Justice Department spokespeople did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the judge’s ruling.

    https://www.politico.com/news/2019/1...cutions-072384

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    Lawyers say federal death row prisoner has Alzheimer’s

    By Colleen Long and Michael Balsamo
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    WASHINGTON — Lawyers for a federal death row inmate convicted of rape and murder have asked a federal judge to halt his scheduled execution next month because the prisoner has Alzheimer’s disease and schizophrenia.

    Wesley Ira Purkey’s lawsuit was filed late Tuesday in Washington. His execution is scheduled for Dec. 13.

    Purkey is among five men whose executions were set by Attorney General William Barr in July, ending an unofficial decade-long moratorium on federal executions. A judge has temporarily halted the executions after some of the chosen inmates challenged the new execution procedures in court, arguing that the government was circumventing proper methods in order to wrongly execute inmates quickly.

    The Justice Department is appealing, and Barr has said he would take the case to the Supreme Court if necessary.

    Purkey’s lawsuit argues he is not mentally competent enough to be executed. His lawyers say the 67-year-old’s condition is so far progressed that he doesn’t understand why he would face the death penalty.

    “Wesley Purkey lacks a rational understanding of the purpose of his execution and cannot communicate rationally with counsel,” they wrote in court papers. They cite debilitating symptoms from mental illness, but also severe trauma that began in childhood, including witnessing abuse and being abused by his parents.

    Purkey, who’s from Kansas, was convicted of raping and killing 16-year-old Jennifer Long before dismembering, burning and dumping her body in a septic pond in 2003.

    The attorney general unexpectedly announced in July that the government would resume executions next month. In 2014, following a botched state execution in Oklahoma, President Barack Obama had directed the Justice Department to conduct a broad review of capital punishment and issues surrounding lethal injection drugs.

    Barr proclaimed the review had been completed, clearing the way for executions to resume, and he approved a new procedure for lethal injections that replaces the three-drug combination previously used in federal executions with one drug, pentobarbital.

    This is similar to the procedure used in several states, including Georgia, Missouri and Texas, but not all.

    But even as the federal government paused executions, some federal defendants over the years were still sentenced to death.

    In New York, Ronell Wilson was sentenced to death after he was convicted of killing two undercover New York City police detectives in 2003, in an illegal gun sting gone awry on Staten Island. The officers were shot point-blank in the backs of their heads.

    But a federal judge in 2016 said Wilson could not be put to death because he met the legal standard to be considered intellectually disabled. His sentence was vacated and he was given life in prison.

    https://apnews.com/a494e22c8a4449118f7ee60963804f92

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    "Lawyers say federal death row prisoner has Alzheimer’s"

    So what? Cancer, alzheimer, parkinson it doesn't matter. They are going to death chamber for randevu whit needle. They don't go there to beat 100m world record. They are sick ? Even better, warden has a cure.

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    To be punished with death in America, you have to be able to know that you are about to die and why. A person can develop dementia to the point where they are no longer fit for execution. Killing them then is no longer a punishment, merely killing them with no punitive value is not permitted.

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    So what happens now?

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