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Thread: Ronald Bert Smith, Jr. - Alabama Execution - December 8, 2016

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    This guy won't get it, for the exact same reason Arthur got a stay. I wouldn't get my hopes up if I were you ladies and gents.

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    Agree with Don on this one...this one probably gets a stay.

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    Alabama inmate seeks execution stay from US Supreme Court

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. — An Alabama inmate is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to stay his upcoming execution to consider whether a judge should have been able to give him a death sentence when the jury recommended life imprisonment.

    Attorneys for Ronald Bert Smith on Friday filed the stay request. Smith is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection next Thursday for the 1994 slaying of Huntsville convenience store clerk Casey Wilson.

    A jury recommended life imprisonment by a 7-5 vote, but a judge sentenced Smith to the death penalty.

    Smith’s attorneys said Alabama is the only state that continues to allow judicial override of a jury’s recommendation.

    Justices this year struck down Florida’s similar sentencing structure. However, the Alabama attorney general’s office has argued there are key differences that make Alabama’s process legal.

    https://www.abqjournal.com/900910/al...eme-court.html
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    Alabama opposing execution stay for condemned inmate

    The state of Alabama is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the execution of an inmate scheduled for lethal injection on Thursday.

    The attorney general’s office asked the justices in court papers Tuesday to deny a stay requested by Ronald Bert Smith, convicted of killing Huntsville store clerk Casey Wilson in 1994.

    A judge imposed death after jurors recommended life without parole, which Smith contends conflicts with a Supreme Court decision released earlier this year from Florida. Both Alabama and Florida allow judges to override jurors’ recommendations in capital cases.

    The state argues that the Florida decision doesn’t apply to Smith’s case and that he waited too long to raise his objections.

    Alabama hasn’t executed anyone since 2013 because of a shortage of execution drugs.

    http://www.dailyjournal.net/2016/12/...death-penalty/
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    Christopher Brooks doesn't exist apparently.

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    The jury in the Brooks case voted for the death sentence. Smith was an override.

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    Dave the article says Al hasn't executed anyone since 2013. Brooks went in Jan this year.
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    In today's opinions, the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit DENIED Smith's application for a stay of execution. The panel was made up of Judges Tjoflat (Ford), Hull (Clinton) and Carnes (Obama).

    http://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opini...01617167.2.pdf

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    Both the Alabama Supreme Court and the 11th are willing to let AL execute. Only SCOTUS has been giving them trouble. This will be the first real test of Hurst. SCOTUS sidestepped it with Tommy Arthur and Vernon Madison, but Hurst is the center of Smith's appeal. Oddly, I've got a feeling this one will happen.
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    Was the 11th denial 3-0?
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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