Personally I would let the cunt rot



OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A death row inmate with terminal cancer was down to his final appeal Monday, the day before his execut1on, after a judge dismissed his claim that the state's lethal injection method unconstitutionally causes excruciating pain.
Death penalty opponents who question the need to execute someone who has as little as six months to live anyway have rallied around Jimmy Dale Bland, a two-time killer who shot his 62-year-old employer in the back of the head 11 years ago.
``It won't take much to kill him. He's half dead now,'' said Bud Welch of Oklahoma City, a board member of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty whose daughter was killed in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
Diann Rust-Tierney, executive director of the Washington-based coalition, said the case raises ethical issues.
``It is pointless. The fact that this is moving forward and it is so shocking is really why the public is coming to see that there is something terribly wrong with the system,'' Rust-Tierney said.
Prosecutors have said Bland's medical condition is not grounds for clemency, and the victim's relatives also have said he does not deserve to die of natural causes.
Bland, 49, has been administered radiation and chemotherapy for advanced lung cancer that has spread to his brain and his hip bone, according to his attorney, David Autry.
Bland's execut1on could turn into a catastrophe if the veins in his arms where a lethal dose of chemicals will be injected have been compromised by his chemotherapy treatments, Autry said.
Autry has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block Bland's execut1on and decide whether executing a terminally ill inmate violates the Constitution's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. U.S. District Judge Stephen P. Friot denied a stay Monday based on a similar argument.
The high court has not acted on the request, commonly made at this stage by condemned inmates. Autry said it was the last chance of stopping Bland's execut1on, set for Tuesday evening.
The five-member Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board unanimously rejected Bland's request for clemency June 12.
On Friday, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals voted 3-2 to deny a stay, with the majority writing that prohibiting the execut1on of a terminally ill person ``would mean the death sentence could not be carried out before the natural expiration of a person's life.''
In a dissenting opinion, Judge Charles Chapel of Tulsa said a stay should be granted to protect ``the dignity of society itself from the barbarity of exacting mindless vengeance.''
``Bland's life is very near its natural end. It is cruel, unusual, inappropriate and totally unnecessary to intervene at this time, just to ensure that his demise is at the hands of the state,'' Chapel wrote.
Bland was sentenced to death for the Nov. 14, 1996, murder of Doyle Windle Rains, who was shot in the back of the head in his garage with a .22-caliber rifle.
Bland was driving a vehicle owned by Rains when he was arrested for driving under the influence two days later. Bland, who did construction and handyman work for Rains, confessed to killing Rains and hiding his body.
Bland also spent 20 years of a 60-year sentence in jail after pleading guilty to manslaughter and kidnapping charges in 1975. He had been out of prison less than a year when he was accused of killing Rains.

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