Celebrity scumbag attorney Barry Scheck disgraced Nashville yesterday (no small feat) to do what he does best – trying to get convicted murderers back out on the street to terrorize the citizenry.

Scheck, most notably remembered for getting O.J. Simpson off after he was found dripping wet with DNA from his ex-wife’s throat blood, is making a strong case for his spot in line on The Hell Express by donating his “talents” to attempt to commute convicted murderer Sedley Alley from death’s sweet release.

Simpson, as you may recall, was last spotted joking around last week with selling the Ford Bronco police trailed him in hours after he killed ex-wife Nicole and Ron Goldman when he decided it would be best to grab a few thousand dollars, a handgun and a fake mustache to make his failed, nationally televised run for the Mexican border.

Knowing no reasonable court was going to rule in Alley’s favor, this tear hall putsch, in conjunction with a 4-3 vote from the Board of Probation and Parole in favor of delaying exeuction, is leaning on presidential hopeful/Governor Bredesen to either pardon (ha!) or commute Alley’s sentence.

Which is good because, as it stands, Cowardly Lion Bredesen has been able to defer his usual soft-on-crime stance by having his appointed Donk crony Judge Aleta Trauger play the heavy.

Even the adamantly anti-death penalty editor of the Looney Left alt-weekly Nashville Scene commented thusly:

“If you do as Wayne suggests, it should be because of a fundamental conviction against state-sanctioned killing. Because the guy did it. Should you have any doubt, read the current Scene cover story.”

The caterwauling from the usual coffee klatch of leftists seems to be that mixing Church and State is okay as long as it’s inventing some new giveaway under the auspices of “charity” or to protect murderers from facing accountability for taking the life of an innocent. We’ll see them arguing with Ray Moore to put the 10 Commandments at the Courthouse in no time.

I’m laughing morbidly at the idea of Jesus emailing the governor and urging execution.

Revenge is a very difficult instinct to tame, but Jesus asks us to tame it all the same. Revenge is not justice. Revenge is the gratification of sinful thoughts. It is the easy way.

No one has the right to take a life but God. If you think differently, there’s a book you ought to look into. IT’S CALLED THE BIBLE.

Posted by: Tracer Hand at May 16, 2006 01:03 AM

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But killing a man strapped down to a gurney is not self-defense by any stretch of the imagination. He is under your control, he poses no threat to anyone. It’s just vengence, pure and simple, and to revel in killing is as good as commiting it yourself. “Vengence is mine, saith the Lord,” and any human who takes that privilege for him or herself is playing with fire.

Posted by: Sadie Baker at May 16, 2006 09:17 AM

That last comment is from one of the Gorilla Women. No word yet on how them radically overruling God’s wisdom by aborting pregnancies is “playing with fire” or how the death penalty trumps the Victimization Of Women(tm) from such rabid Pamprinistas.

Meanwhile, the real victim’s family is forced to drive from North Carolina again to make sure that justice does not get derailed again by the local leftards.

“Sedley Alley gave Suzanne no clemency,” said Jack Collins, who, with his wife, Trudy, traveled from North Carolina to represent their dead daughter. “He gave her instead a humiliating, degrading and painful exit from life, her family and her friends.”[...]
“Let there be no doubt about it: Sedley Alley was, is and always will be the one and only killer of our daughter.” Alley’s brutal treatment was “evil in its purest form,” Jack Collins said.

Suzanne’s brother, Steven Collins, described his younger sister as “the embodiment of life,” who loved softball, school plays and spending time with friends. “The time for frivolous postponements is over,” said Collins, who lives in Colorado. “ It’s time to carry out the will of the people.”

Trudy Collins, who took notes and dabbed her tears with tissue during the four-hour hearing, told the board that she believed in the power of love until her daughter was murdered.

“Dark winds of rage and venom battered at me and I began questioning love’s power,” she said.

Looking to her daughter’s spirit for guidance, “I now opt for hope over hate. I nurture patience as a salve for my frustration. I reach out more and more to others so I have less time to dwell on myself. And I continue to thank God for Suzanne’s loving and guiding presence in my life. I once more firmly believe the power of love can overcome anything,” the mother said.

Her husband picked up where Trudy Collins left off as she choked up: “Even injustice, even death, even despair. I know I’ve been there. Within that circle of love I am hopeful that final justice will soon be realized for our daughter.”

As yet, only one local news station has bothered to talk to them.

I’m rooting for the Collins family. Although it’s starting to look like Sedley may actually meet his end, it’s still going to be awhile before Scheck gets to meet up with old “Dream Team” buddy Johnnie Cochran.

Don’t worry Barry. I’m sure Johnnie and his new boss are keeping a warm seat for you.

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