It used to be done better, in the square in front of the courthouse. The condemned man mounted the thirteen steps, was made to stand over the trap door, and got to make a (short) speech. Sheriff’s deputies were among the spectators, to discourage riotous rowdiness.

After that, the lever was pulled, the condemned man suffered a short, sharp, pain, and it was over.

The way it’s done these days, the condemned man doesn’t even suffer the short nasty pain of the hanging, he just falls asleep, unlike his victim.

IMHO, if you’re being executed for an heinous revolting murder, it should hurt. A little bit, maybe

I sat behind him for a week and a half in court. I heard him speak, watched him look at the pictures and videos of the gruesome murder scene, and listened to the testimony of Lori and Cindy’s familes and friends. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO WAY THAT HE HAS AUSBERGERS. That is just a sorry excuse for the fact that he had a choice (just like we all do) and that was to become a murderer.

I train horses and have worked at a farm where we were accompanied by a therapeutic program that tailored to kids that have Ausbergers – let’s just say that the kids I met were nothing like Humphreys.

Jim Berry was (and is) just looking for some poor excuse to try and “save” this man’s life……I WISH SOMEONE WAS THERE TO TRY AND SAVE LORI AND CYNDI before he tortured and murdered them.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How can Berry sleep at night knowing he defends criminals that have tortured and murdered innocent people??? Wow, and he specializes in these cases??

I can’t wait until both Berry and Humphreys stand in front of God and get what they deserve.

At times, when arguing on the Internet, I think I may have used words like, “The State is wrong! I’m right! I’ll do that, though I hang for it”

Well, maybe not words exactly like that, but if I entertained the idea, even a little bit, of myself being hanged for doing right, you betcha I have no problem whatsoever with myself or another being hanged for PROVEN capital crime.

Regardless of the neural configuration of the perpetrator.

If you intend horrible murder, and do it, you should suffer the loss of your own life.

If you do not intend murder, but somebody dies by your deed, explain or have someone else explain why you killed.

In court. With Cross-Examination.

Killin’ is serious business, even when not murder.

Dammit!

As I wrote above, my standard in judging things for which one ought to hang, is not “beyond a reasonable doubt”, but

“Absolutely no doubt whatsoever.”

Hanging somebody is not something one can un-do.

Dang, Prof K, you live in New Jersey, you know about criminal government!

Cliff

This doesn’t state that a clinical psychologist or other qualified clinician/team has evaluated Him and rendered a diagnosis. How do we know these ‘Experts’ are even qualified to render a diagnosis? Hopefully the Judge in this case has been following the Cedillo vs HHS case and isn’t about to be led down the merry path by more pay for play witnesses.