To Kill a Murderer
By Daniel Greenfield On February 22, 2013
Twenty years ago, Nathan Dunlap walked into a Chuck E. Cheese in Colorado. Dunlap had been fired from the restaurant earlier that year and told a friend that he wanted to get even and take all the money. One cold wintry evening he walked in, put a gun to the head of a 19-year-old girl at the salad bar and pulled the trigger. Then he killed three others and stole $1,591 before being arrested by the police.
Over the next twenty years, Dunlap and his lawyers did everything possible to get their client off. They claimed that his trial lawyers were incompetent, that he was abused as a child and that he had mental problems. That same claim is made by the defenders of nearly every murderer on death row. There has yet to be an inmate on death row who isn’t a mentally ill child who was sexually abused by his incompetent lawyers.
Dunlap’s case went to the Colorado Supreme Court three times and once to the Supreme Court. And that means that after twenty years, he may finally be executed. The taxpayers of Colorado have spent millions fighting Dunlap’s lawyers. Aside from the attempts to keep Dunlap from facing the death penalty, the ACLU sued Colorado over exercise privileges for the Chuck E. Cheese killer.
“Depriving Mr. Dunlap of fresh air, sunshine, and outdoor exercise for 15 years is cruel and unusual punishment,” the ACLU legal director said last year.
In Georgia, the murderer sympathy vote is swarming around Warren Lee Hill. In 1986, Hill shot his girlfriend 11 times. Four years later he beat another inmate to death in prison with a nail-studded board. Hill was finally on the verge on being executed, but his defenders argued that Georgia couldn’t kill Hill because he only has an IQ of 70.
Jimmy Carter has come out in Hill’s defense and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals stepped in a 30 minutes before Hill would have faced justice. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals is not supposed to handle death penalty cases, but activist judges know no boundaries and the court has now stepped in to halt two of Georgia’s executions in two days.
Hill only began claiming that he was retarded in 1996, ten years after his original murder,...
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Dunlap’s case went to the Colorado Supreme Court three times and once to the Supreme Court. And that means that after twenty years, he may finally be executed. The taxpayers of Colorado have spent millions fighting Dunlap’s lawyers. Aside from the attempts to keep Dunlap from facing the death penalty, the ACLU sued Colorado over exercise privileges for the Chuck E. Cheese killer.
“Depriving Mr. Dunlap of fresh air, sunshine, and outdoor exercise for 15 years is cruel and unusual punishment,” the ACLU legal director said last year.
In Georgia, the murderer sympathy vote is swarming around Warren Lee Hill. In 1986, Hill shot his girlfriend 11 times. Four years later he beat another inmate to death in prison with a nail-studded board. Hill was finally on the verge on being executed, but his defenders argued that Georgia couldn’t kill Hill because he only has an IQ of 70.
Jimmy Carter has come out in Hill’s defense and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals stepped in a 30 minutes before Hill would have faced justice. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals is not supposed to handle death penalty cases, but activist judges know no boundaries and the court has now stepped in to halt two of Georgia’s executions in two days.
Hill only began claiming that he was retarded in 1996, ten years after his original murder,...
-go to the link-
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