GONEzales Now Willing to Kill Anyone
Once again, we send the Latino to do the job that no white guy wants to do…
Gonzales could get say in states’ executions
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is putting the final touches on regulations that could give Atty. Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales important new sway over death penalty cases in California and other states, including the power to shorten the time that death row inmates have to appeal convictions to federal courts.The rules implement a little-noticed provision in last year’s reauthorization of the Patriot Act that gives the attorney general the power to decide whether individual states are providing adequate counsel for defendants in death penalty cases. The authority has been held by federal judges.
Under the rules now being prepared, if a state requested it and Gonzales agreed, prosecutors could use “fast track” procedures that could shave years off the time that a death row inmate has to appeal to the federal courts after conviction in a state court.
The move to shorten the appeals process and effectively speed up executions comes at a time of growing national concern about the fairness of the death penalty, underscored by the use of DNA testing to establish the innocence of more than a dozen death row inmates in recent years.
There it is! Living proof that if you want your dirty work to be done quicker, send your most trusted brownback who stole good ole American Ashcroft’s job.
After all, wouldn’t you want your life to be in the hands of this man? He will rule by iron fisting!
Themocracy
“He will rule by iron fisting!
Oh, no you di’int!