One Down, One To Go
June 28th, 2006 at 8:47 am by SmantixThe execution of Sedley Alley almost didn’t go off last night as expected:
Alley had been granted a last-minute stay by a federal judge just after 11:00 p.m. Tuesday night, just two hours before he was originally scheduled to be executed.
But the stay was quickly lifted by a panel from the same court.
Just because you’re wearing a long, flowing robe doesn’t mean you’re God, ok? The anti-death penalty agenda of an activist judge should not overrule all of the juries and judges before them. This is a bizarre machination of a rogue judiciary that likes to legislate from the bench what would never be passed in a state congress or by the voters. And worse, feel that no repercussions, like impeachment, will be coming down on them for their capricious behavior.
One down, one to go:
ASHLAND CITY — The former Shoney’s manager who was threatened at gunpoint at his home by Paul Dennis Reid more than 10 years ago said he is more than ready for the convicted killer to die.
“Basically, I think it’s overdue,” said Mitch Roberts, of Pleasant View in Cheatham County. “If there were a switch to throw or a button to push, I could do it easily and sleep at night.”
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Roberts remembers the night Reid threatened to kill him if he didn’t get his job back.
It was 10 p.m. when Reid first arrived on his doorstep. Roberts’ daughter invited him inside and went to get her father so Reid could speak with him. Roberts’ wife sensed immediately that something was wrong, and asked her husband to get him out of the house.Roberts said he led Reid outside, and that he started putting the puzzle together when Roberts recognized the red sports car Reid was driving as the one seen at the murder scenes of seven fast-food employees
Things turned dangerous, however, when Reid handed Roberts a pair of handcuffs and ordered him into his car.“I was scared to death. I just couldn’t let him back in the house because I knew what he would do,” Roberts said. “That’s when I got brave and told him, ‘Who do you think you’re talking to?”
Roberts credited his decision to stand up to Reid as saving his life.
“I am not saying I am a tough guy or a hero or anything like that. I just didn’t behave like any of his other victims. I didn’t cry or beg for my life, but I confronted him. I think it caught him off-guard.”
The confrontation didn’t defuse the situation, because Reid was still holding a gun. Roberts turned and started walking toward his porch and noticed Reid had switched the gun to his left hand.
He kept walking, opened the front door, and turned around to hit Reid before escaping inside. He then called to his wife and asked her to get his gun.
Reid fled.
Ah, the one that got away. I love that old fish tale.
June 28th, 2006 at 9:04 am
Hell yeah. I had no idea that Alley had already gotten the needle. This is great news. Welcome to hell, you sick fuck. Hopefully Reid will be visiting him soon in his new condo on the River Styx.
June 28th, 2006 at 10:23 am
There is a chance that it could be reinstated at any time today. His stay was issued under the flimsiest and most arbitrary of reasons.
They had Cowardly King Phil on the news last night and he was totally rocked by his judge buddies. Thanks in part to the heat put on him from Bryson’s campaign, there is no chance that he’s going to intervene against Reid. If the stay gets lifted, they should double time it to the chambers before Judge John “Satan Claus” Nixon rises his head from his bloody mary to object.
June 29th, 2006 at 3:33 am
Tennessee holds 1st execution in 45 years
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The state carried out only its second execution in 45 years early Wednesday after a federal appeals …
June 29th, 2006 at 3:07 pm
For the record, I am deleting Kleinfelter and Davids linkwhoring. Today they are defending that wonderful American, John Walker Lindh as being a poor, innocent victim of Bushitlerism.
Seemingly forgetting that the Marin County Mujahideen was sitting in a prison cell in Afghanistan knowing that a riot was about to take place that resulted in the death of a CIA Agent. And said nothing just hours before it took place and with knowledge of it. Somehow forgetting that he was picked up on a battlefield.
But Kleinfelter and David are afflicted with that same disease of The Left, of which they belong, they laugh at the dead Paul Dennis Reid killed, the mutilated victim of Sedley Alley, and the rest. But John Walker Lindh and Paul Dennis Reid – they are lives are more precious than pearls. *swoon*
June 29th, 2006 at 4:25 pm
That’s why I gave you the power, because I knew you’d use it for good.
They should have taken Lindh out back and put a bullet in his fucking head and we shouldn’t even know his name.
June 29th, 2006 at 4:30 pm
Guys who read Esquire sit down to pee. Guys who link to guys who read Esquire, well, they sit behind someone who makes them sit down to pee.
June 29th, 2006 at 9:14 pm
What the Hell is going in Nashville?