... after Nadia Pflaum's awesome "Dead Man" feature last week and The Kansas City Star's Sunday cover story, The New York Times weighs in at the eleventh hour. Skillicorn is still slated for execution at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday.
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Dennis Skillicorn is not yet dead. I find the Mo Supreme's Court decision to set another execution so quickly, no more than an attempt to create a 'smokescreen' on Skillicorn's last day on this Earth, and an attempt to curry favor with a Governor who was prevously one of the most PRO-DP Attorney Generals in living history.
Dennis Skillicorn is a human being who is about to be killed by the State of Missouri, and he has a family. The victims involved in the Skillicorn case, also have families. ALL these people deserve recognition for what they have lost, and what they will lose. Setting a date for another DR inmate when the blood of the last one isn't even cold, smacks of the Roman Arenas.
Some of the posts I have seen, are sacrilegious. Idiots who think that they are comedians, out to make people laugh with their wit and their 'humour'. One idiot named 'Monkeynut' who stated 'night night Rich' and was so set on his blood lust that he even confused the victim with the man who was about to be executed!
Have some dignity. We've all acknowledged that Nixon will not grant clemency. It's not in his political interests to acknowledge redemption, and he probably views Skillicorn's death as the removal of a thorn in his side. Just think how much safer you will all sleep safer in your beds, and how much political clout he can gain from this man's death. If he cared so much about the victim's he'd have acknowledged that the Drummond family needed for this to be over, before another execution was set. He's ALLOWED them to be swept under the carpet, to get the pressure off his own back.
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