There is no way I would play God. No way.

The military admitted that one of it’s own was mentally ill? That sounds like mitigating or extenuating circumstances.

AMEN, Rosepetal!

this man should have been put in the express line for the electric chair, a long time ago. as long as society tolertes this behavior, we will continue to have it. lethal injection would show him more mercy than he showed his victims.

In 1966, as a member of the United States Air Force, Whisenhant was sentenced to twenty years in federal prison on a charge of assault with intent to murder arising out of the severe and brutal beating of a female member of the Air Force. Prompt medical attention saved the life of this initial victim. While serving his sentence Whisenhant manifested his continued homicidal tendencies by threatening the life of the only female with whom he came in contact, an employee of the federal penitentiary at which he was incarcerated. During this time period he was repeatedly diagnosed as psychotic and described as suffering from schizophrenia, paranoid type. His mental condition was noted as aggressive, chronic, severe, and manifested by brutality and assaultive behavior. Despite all of these warning signals, Whisenhant’s sentence was reduced to ten years in 1970 and he was granted parole on November 28, 1973

I would rather err on the side of humanity.

Whisenhant - I was 17 and i was in the 7-11 store just before he murdered the lady there, i was tromatiesed for a long time about that, i think it is awfull that he is still alive - he should of died years ago… you kill you die! not 30 years later 30 days later.

No changes in the death sentence policy and procedure should apply to Thomas Warren Whisenhant though, because he was captured in the act and he confessed. And his federal prison record clearly shows that he is an extreme danger to all, women especially. Allowing this murderer to live 30 years longer than his victims did, is a tragic failure of justice.

I grew up in Tilman’s Corner, I remember very well Thomas Warren Whisenhant’s string of serial killings. Infact he murdered and mutilated one of his poor victims Mrs. Venora Hyatt, in an old abandoned house on the Abbot’s Nursery Property which was located right across the road from my home. I caught the school bus everyday across the road from that house. I seen him in the woods near the old house, he was a terrifying looking man. I was 15 years old. What this animal did to those poor women is unforgivable and for his actions and for justice for his victims loved ones and the state of Alabama, he indeed should have gotten the needle decades ago. He should be executed, not allowed to grow old and die of natural causes, if Alabama and the appeals courts allow that to happen, then what was the death sentence for? If this’s is allowed, then by justice neglect, his death sentence will have been commuted to life without parole, because that will have been the only sentence he served.

Good Alabama people, y’all don’t need the UN going tut-tut. However, ou do need to get the Death Penalty procedures in line with such other states as still have the option. In other words, be just as careful you have the right perpetrator first. if that means a few more appeals, so be it.
But note well: The costs of Legally Killing a man are now about the same as giving him Life Without Possibility of Parole, and becoming more costly down the road.
Somebody mentioned Zimbabwe. The UN is tut-tutting there, too, expecting Zimbabwe’s Robber Moregrabby to be humane because we’d like him to be a nice man. If we weren’t bogged down in Iraq, we could spare a Regiment of Paratroopers to take Mugabe off the board. Regime change would work better there, as Zimbabwe is not as fractious as Iraq. And we could be back home in a matter of weeks, because there are a few decent opposition leaders in that unfortunate place waiting to set things right.
But we can’t do that anymore.