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32 Years on Death Row

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That's the title of David Fathi's post today at Huffington Post.  LINKWhen William Lee Thompson committed the murder that landed him on Florida's death row, Gerald Ford was president. Thompson has now been incarcerated for almost 33 years, most of it under sentence of death. He has spent much of that time in isolation 23 hours a day, in a 6-by-9-foot cell. Death warrants for him were signed twice and stayed only shortly before he was to be executed. This week, the Supreme Court refused to hear Thompson's claim that his execution after more than 30 years on death row would violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. Normally when the Court declines to hear a case it does so without comment, but this case sparked lively debate...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 13, 2009 (boomark / email).