death (fwd)
chicken@maria.wustl.edu
23 Apr 1992 11:29:55
I received this message am not sure about the part at the bottem
but though as a whole it was worth reading.
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> Greetings. (I'm sending this message to everyone who might be interested.)
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> Last night, California executed one of its 200+ death row inmates, using its gas chamber for the first time since the reversal of the Supreme Court decision banning capital punishment. Anticipating last-minute legal maneuvers, the members of the > Supreme Court stayed up all night. Indeed, four seperate stays of execution were issued by various Federal judges in California for several different reasons. The Supreme Court, by a 7-2 majority (the 2 being Blackmun and Stevens), vacated each sta> y, sounding more annoyed each time. Finally, Chief Justice Rehnquist -- on record as being politically opposed to any attemptto delay executions once sentence has been passed -- issued an order that NO FEDERAL JUDGE COULD ISSUE ANY STAY OF EXECUTI> ON IN THIS CASE WITHOUT GETTING THESUPREME COURT'S PERMISSION FIRST.
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> Sound a bit un-kosher?
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> Indeed: that order was not only unprecedented but very, very unlawful.
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> It was, in fact, a sufficiently blatant and grievous contravention of the legal system to require the impeachment of Chief Justice Rehnquist at least, if not also Justices White, O'Connor, Kennedy, Scalia, Souter and Thomas.
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> PLEASE take a minute tomorrow to call your Representative's office and demand the introduction of articles of impeachment -- before this November.
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> And sleep well, knowing that you are no longer under the protection of law.
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