More Capital Punishment

Where’s Snoop Dogg and Joan Baez now?

SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) -- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has ruled out a clemency hearing for the state's oldest death row prisoner.
Clarence Ray Allen, 75, is scheduled to be executed on January 17 for ordering three murders while serving a life sentence in prison. He is blind, deaf, and confined to a wheelchair.
Allen would be the second-oldest man executed in the United States in recent decades. In December, a 77-year-old Mississippi man became the oldest prisoner executed in the United States since it resumed capital punishment in 1977.
Citing the failing health of their client, who suffered a heart attack in September, Allen's lawyers have sought to stay his execution. A federal judge last month declined their request.

I’ve already stated that I am against the death penalty, but I’d like to know where all the protesters are.  I guess since this guy didn’t write children’s books his life is worthless.

I do find it kind of Ironic that they asked for a stay of execution because he is sick.

While in prison in 1980, he ordered witnesses to his initial murder to be killed.  So this guy was obviously still dangerous while in prison, but I am pretty sure this is no longer the case.  

This execution is unnecessary.  This man no longer offers danger to society.  He is confined to a wheelchair and blind, for the love of Pete.

The death penalty isn’t even effective if it takes over 20 years to kill the guy.  Any threat they pose to society is still credible and would likely happen within a few years.  Of course I don’t really know that for a fact or anything, just a guess.  

Let him live, Arnie.  

Sources:
Reuters via CNN.
This guy.