Executed inmate makes presidential endorsement

[Dos Equis]

 

Executed inmate makes presidential endorsement
Posted: 02:00 PM ET
 
Death penalty opponents gather outside of Bishop's execution site Wednesday.
(CNN) — Support for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama extend to death row Wednesday.

According to The Jackson Clarion Ledger, a Mississippi newspaper, death row inmate Dale Leo Bishop's final words before being executed Wednesday night included an appeal to Americans to vote for the Illinois senator.

"For those who oppose the death penalty and want to see it end, our best bet is to vote for Barack Obama because his supporters have been working behind the scenes to end this practice," Bishop said, according to the paper.

Bishop was convicted in 2000 of participating in the murder of a man who was beaten to death with a claw hammer two years earlier. Bishop himself did not deliver the fatal blow and, not including contract killings, is only the eighth person executed who did not directly kill his victim since the death penalty was reinstated 32 years ago, according to the paper.

Obama himself is not explicitly against the death penalty, saying it should be reserved for "only the most heinous crimes." He also said he disagreed with a Supreme Court decision last month that struck down the death penalty for child rape.

"I have said repeatedly that I think that the death penalty should be applied in very narrow circumstances for the most egregious of crimes," Obama said then. "I think that the rape of a small child, 6 or 8 years old, is a heinous crime and if a state makes a decision that under narrow, limited, well-defined circumstances the death penalty is at least potentially applicable that that does not violate our Constitution."

He's also said he would support the death penalty for Osama bin Laden.

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[Decker]

We all know deathbed confessions are truth.  They have special status in the rule of evidence.

Vote Obama for Change!

Otherwise the US gets 4 more years of the same failed Bush policies.

[Decker]

A McCain vote = death.

We don't want death in office.  We want life.  Vibrant life.  Not ebbing gray matter.

[youandme]

Bishop acknowledges participating in the attack, but another man, Jessie Johnson, admitted striking the fatal blows. Johnson was tried separately and sentenced to life without parole.

Epps said he discussed Johnson's role in the crime with Bishop.

"He indicated to us he thinks Johnson should be where he is on death row," Epps said.

The attack began in Gentry's car after a night of drinking and drug use and continued on an isolated road near Saltillo in north Mississippi, court records show. When Gentry tried to run, Bishop chased him down, holding Gentry while Johnson bludgeoned the 22-year-old victim. Prosecutors said Gentry was hit 23 times before the hammer lodged in his throat. The man was left for dead in bushes along the dirt road.

[youandme]

A McCain vote = death.

We don't want death in office.  We want life.  Vibrant life.  Not ebbing gray matter.

This man took someone's life away, I'm sure he agrees with your comments